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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
Daniel R. Day - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn't just about fashion. It's about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud." - Ava Duvernay, director of Selma,... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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Thomas Jefferson's Education
Alan Taylor - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a brilliant, absorbing study of Thomas Jefferson's campaign to save Virginia through education.By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery.... |
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On War and Writing
Samuel Lynn Hynes - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers metaphors for those other antagonisms,... |
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told
Stephen Dando-Collins - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs) . The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500... |
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A House in the Mountains
Caroline Moorehead - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the final volume in her Resistance Quartet - the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy's fascist regime during World War II - as riveting, intimate, and cinematic as the novels... |
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
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Format: Hardcover
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From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings... |
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In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
Bill Streever - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening... |
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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
JOHN F LEHMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe,... |
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National ZIP code directory 2014
United Communications Group.; National Information Data Center ; United States Postal Service. - Bernan
Format: Book : English
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Avoid wasted postage and ensure timely receipt of all your outbound mail and overnight deliveries.The National ZIP Code Directory accommodates the constantly changing geographical make-up of the United States. This 2014 edition contains all the essential information you need to get your... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Nada Bakos - Little
Format: Print book
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The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity... |
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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
Stephen Harrigan - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful... |
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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
PATRICK SPERO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution.In 1763, the Seven Years' War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing... |
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1944 Diary
Hans Keilson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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[1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust . . . A moving and fascinating read." -- Library JournalIn 2010, FSG published two novels by the German- Jewish writer Hans Keilson:... |
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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
R J Overy - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
Denver Nicks - Lawrence Hill Books
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified the killers: convicts on work release who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure... |
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
S. C. Gwynne - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era's... |
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Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
Paul A. Offit M.D. - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.Modern... |
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Mary Queen of Scots
John Guy - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Films, a biography, "as enthralling as a detective story," (New York Times) of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland. |
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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
BEATE KLARSFELD - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard... |
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road.When they descended on Grafton,... |
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Stephen R Platt - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Opium War--a vivid narrative of the earliest Western efforts to open China to trade and the resulting war that ensured the decline of imperial China.When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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To Catch A King: Charles IIs Great Escape
Charles Spencer - William Collins
Format: Hardcover
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed... |
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Shadow Strike: Inside Israels Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power
Yaakov Katz - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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A 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist"At the top of my reading list." -- Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School"Reads like an international thriller, but it is actually a compelling factual day-by-day (and sometimes hour-by-hour) account of an incident... |
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
Chris Wallace - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events across the globe during the 116 days leading up to the world's first use of the atomic bomb in wartime - the American attack on Hiroshima... |
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Don't Lie to Me: And Stop Trying to Steal Our Freedom
Jeanine Pirro - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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It's been nearly four years since President Trump took office, and Judge Jeanine Pirro has had enough of the left's countless lies and false accusations. She is now forced to ask: How could anyone vote against President Trump this November? What more could you possibly want?In Don't... |
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History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote
Kate Messner - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Myths! Lies! Secrets! Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth. Perfect for fans of I Survived and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales.In 1920, Susan B. Anthony passed a law that gave voting rights to women in the United States. RIGHT?WRONG! Susan B. Anthony... |
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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Judith E Stein - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, the witty, poetry-loving art lover became a legend of the avant-garde,... |
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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
Garrett Peck - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath -- the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American... |
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The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel
Cathy Scott-Clark - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world’s most exclusive... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel
Martin Duberman - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent exposure - for which he was knighted in 1911 - of the brutal conditions... |
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La Americana: A Memoir
Melanie Bowden SimoÌn - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simn, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown's Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with... |
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American Follies
Norman Lock - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback
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"[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." -- NPRIn the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth... |
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Navy SEALs: The Combat History of the Deadliest Warriors on the Planet
Don Mann - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In a world where acts of terror have become all too commonplace, America has turned to the elite warriors of special operations to lead the fight and hunt down those whose very ideology is one of hate for everything our nation stands for. Among those units one stands apart from the rest,... |
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Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad
John O. Brennan - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said... |
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
James Grant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the publisher of the prestigious Grants Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 192021 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, less is more. This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama to the 200709 recession,... |
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Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2018-2019
Wayne C. Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region's geography, people, history, political... |
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Reynolds, Jason; Kendi, Ibram X.
Format: electronic resource
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The #1 New York Times bestselling, \"must-read\" (San Francisco Chronicle), \"amazingly timely and stunningly accessible\" (Jacqueline Woodson) exploration of race and racism from award-winning, beloved authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, now in paperback.
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Holger Hoock - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best... |
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Jonathan Daniel Wells - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In The Kidnapping Club, historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter... |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young... |
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Gretchen Sorin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life -- the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie.The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line.... |
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Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
Rachel Vorona Cote - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, TOO MUCH explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities--and how we might finally undo the strings.A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with... |
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The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
KEITH LOWE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror... |
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history.Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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82 Days on Okinawa: A Memoir of the Pacific's Greatest Battle
Shaw, Art - WILLIAM MORROW
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In celebration of the 75th anniversary, a riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Okinawa--the Pacific War's "bloodiest battle of all" (New York Times) --from the first officer ashore, who served at the front for the battle's entire 82-day duration, heroism that... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
Derek W Beck - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck... |
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
Josh Levin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"THE QUEEN is an invaluable work of nonfiction." -- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Slate editor Josh Levin's masterful account of the life and crimes of America's original "welfare queen" On the South... |
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Michael Hiltzik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries.... |
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1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War
Frederick Taylor - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A best-selling historian's chronicle of the dramatic months from the Munich Agreement to Hitler's invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II.In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again... |
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Mexicans in the Making of America
Neil Foley - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading... |
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H. W. Brands - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas... |
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Unprepared: America in the Time of Coronavirus
Jon Sternfeld - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Unprepared is the sweeping history of the Covid-19 pandemic-a raw, primary-source accounting of the epoch-defining event: a virus that first appeared in China in late 2019 and spread rapidly across the globe, killing hundreds of thousands, devastating economies, and changing the modern... |
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Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War
Maria Jose Ferrada - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Home was no longer safe, and Mexico was welcoming refugees by the thousands. Each child packed a suitcase and boarded the Mexique, expecting to return home in a few months.... |
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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force's 617 Squadron.The attack on Nazi Germany's dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military... |
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Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
GEORGE C DAUGHAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution.George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much... |
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
Scott James - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from two giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island, the two questions wouldn't... |
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Andrew J. Bacevich - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed... |
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Raise Your Voice: 12 Protests That Shaped America
Kluger, Jeffrey - PHILOMEL
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Twelve stories of protests and marches--and the people, movements, and moments behind them--that shaped our country's history, told by the bestselling author of Apollo 13 Perfect for today's young activists. Rise up Speak out March Protests and demonstrations have spread throughout... |
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Madison's Sorrow: Today's War on the Founders and America's Liberal Ideal
Kevin C. O'Leary - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening cultural history of the political revolution that has destroyed the Republican Party and unleashed an illiberal crusade against the ideals of the Founding Fathers.The story of America is the struggle between our liberal ideal and illiberal resistance. Donald Trump catalyzed... |
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Anna Beer - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to Great Britain's island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents... |
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
Dale Cockrell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening narrative of the rise of popular music in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City.Everybody's Doin' It follows the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to the convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether a single... |
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals... |
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The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
Justus Rosenberg - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard... |
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency... |
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India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
Srinath Raghavan - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and - something simply never imagined - against a Japanese army poised to invade... |
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Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
James Carter - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge... |
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America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Margaret E Wagner - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEARFrom August 1914 through... |
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The Story of Greece and Rome
Tony Spawforth - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However,... |
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
JARED BROCK - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping biography about the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials.The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson-a dynamic, driven man with exceptional... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
Colin Asher - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters.For a time, Nelson Algren was America's most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. Millions bought... |
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
Heather Cox Richardson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet while visionary Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight... |
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100 Days: How Four Events in 1969 Shaped America
Harlan Lebo - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Some events that transform a nation are frozen in time. Others pass with little public awareness and we only appreciate their momentous nature long after they occurred. Regardless, these events are few and - almost always - far between. But 50 years ago, in 1969, four such events took place... |
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Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States
Edward G Gray - W W Norton, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine's political blueprint for the United States.In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's... |
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The Movie Musical!
Jeanine Basinger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.Leading... |
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community -- a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state... |
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H. W. Brands - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas... |
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Seven Keys to Modern Art
Simon Morley - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A liberating approach to interpreting modern and contemporary art, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world and representing a diversity of styles, mediums, and artists.With modern art's proclivity for self-expression, originality, and the abstract, great works can often... |
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
Mark Danner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and President Obama has proven unable to take the country off what he has called its "permanent... |
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The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth
Anna Keay - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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At first light on July 6, 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was almost over. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor was the dashing thirty-six-year-old Duke of Monmouth, the charismatic son of Charles II, adored by the people. A reformer, a romantic, and a Protestant,... |
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Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America
J. M. Fenster - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A social history of cheating and how American history - through real estate, sports, finance, academics, and, of course, politics - has had its unfair share of rigged results and widened the margins on its gray areas.Drawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories... |
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Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II
Jay A. Stout - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished.The Hell's Angels. At the outbreak of World War II, the United States was in no way prepared to wage war. Although the U.S declared war against Germany in December... |
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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
George Morton-Jack - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite... |
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