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Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
Volker Ullrich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939--a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself. In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated... |
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
Harald Jähner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers... |
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Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Ronald L Numbers - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity -- or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of how science happens. Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away... |
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Nicole Eustace - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent.... |
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The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America
Jeff Yang - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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The Golden Screen is the first of its kind history and celebration of Asian Americans on the big screen. Written by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Yang, this collection covers more than 130 films, spanning more than 100 years - from Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 film The Cheat to Wayne... |
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The Mountbattens: The Lives and Loves of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten
Andrew Lownie - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India. : Once the richest woman in Britain - and a playgirl... |
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
Mary Beth Norton - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December... |
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