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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940
Lloyd Clark - Atlantic Monthly Format: Print book
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In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology to achieve in just six weeks what their fathers had failed to achieve in all four years of the First World... |
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Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure
Maureen Dunphy - Painted Turtle Format: Print book
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The Great Lakes Basin is the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. The more than 30,000 islands dotted throughout the basin provide some of the best ways to enjoy the Great Lakes. While the vast majority of these islands can only be reached by private boat or plane, a surprising... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris - It Books Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
Greil Marcus - Yale University Press Format: eBook
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Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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2018 Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s,... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Mike Rapport - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
John B Judis - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Print book
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A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time--the relationship between the United States and IsraelThere has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs--a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner - Crown Publishers Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves - Henry Holt and Company, 2015. Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic Games -- by one of the most celebrated sportswriters of our time. Renowned sportswriter David Goldblatt has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal for writing "with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic"... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially importantyet almost always overlookedchapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.After... |
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Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario - Random House Trade Paperbacks Format: Print book
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An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more - the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America Based... |
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The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true... |
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Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China
Val Wang - Gotham Format: Hardcover
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A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed... |
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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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American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why
Mark Stein - Palgrave MacMillan Format: Hardcover
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In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless... |
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance,... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command,... |
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The Holocaust: A New History
LAURENCE REES - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker - Knopf; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded... |
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby... |
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz - Basic Civitas Books Format: Print book
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Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian... |
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Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Sonny Longtine - The History Press Format: Paperback
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Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in quiet comfort for the most part, believing that murder rarely happens in their secluded sanctuary, but it does, and more often than they realize. This collection of twenty-four... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers... |
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence - Picador Format: Print book
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To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort.Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement,... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm - Nan A. Talese Format: Hardcover
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrck, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods... |
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books; 1st US Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first... |
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Andrew Scott Cooper - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Print book
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An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administrationIn this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth... |
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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Anna Pasternak - Ecco Format: Print book
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The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind the timeless classicWhen Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
Joan DeJean - St Martins Pr Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know... |
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Richard J Evans - Viking Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann - Farrar, Straus & Giroux Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore - Knopf Publishing Group Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe - Little Brown and Company Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World
Elizabeth Economy - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will... |
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Tim Judah - Tim Duggan Books Format: Print book
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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
Noam Chomsky - Picador Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. With a New Afterword. The worlds leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation,... |
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography
Felix Martin - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions.What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political,... |
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Gary Krist - Crown; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans'... |
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 A World on the Edge
Helen Rappaport - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former... |
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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Peter Fritzsche - Basic Books Format: Print book
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World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An... |
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Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics
Nicole Hemmer - University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Print book
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From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers... |
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn - Farrar Straus & Giroux Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner Format: Print book
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response... |
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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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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The End of White Christian America
Robert P Jones - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)... |
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Rachel Hope Cleves - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777,... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 19411942
Nigel Hamilton - Mariner Books Format: Paperback
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Longlisted for the National Book Award "This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt." - Christian Science Monitor "Masterly." - Wall Street Journal A dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... |
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
Bevin Alexander - Berkley Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson's strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861-65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural... |
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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan - Liveright; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldnt bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that... |
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Irenicon: Book 1 of the Wave Trilogy
Aidan Harte - Jo Fletcher Books Format: Hardcover
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"If there were stars for world-building, Irenicon would be a five plus, no question," says SFX. "The book is a fountain of gorgeous detail, festooned with enriching codices and enlightening, subtly subsumed exposition," raved Sci-Fi Now. The river Irenicon is a feat... |
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands - Alfred A Knopf Format: Print book
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In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century... |
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history... |
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Beacon Press Format: Hardcover
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2015 Recipient of the American Book Award2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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Yahoo's national political columnist and the former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics.In 1987, Gary Hart-articulate, dashing,... |
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
Richard Whittle - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the birth of the Predator drone, a wonder weapon that transformed the American military, reshaped modern warfare, and sparked a revolution in aviationThe creation of the first weapon in history whose operators can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe... |
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How to Speak Midwestern
EDWARD MCCLELLAND - BELT PUB Format: Print book
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Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sound foreign to anyone living outside the region. This book explains not only what Midwesterners say but also how and why they say it and covers... |
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Alexander Watson - Basic Books; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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For Germany and Austria-Hungary the First World War started with high hopes for a rapid, decisive outcome. Convinced that right was on their side and fearful of the enemies that encircled them, they threw themselves resolutely into battle. Yet, despite the initial halting of a brutal Russian... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists - quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans - that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created... |
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Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Trevor Royle - Pegasus Books Format: Print book
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A vigorous and authoritative history of last major battle fought between Scottish and English forces, ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last... |
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert - Knopf; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
Rana Dasgupta - Penguin Press HC, The Format: Print book
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In Capital, Commonwealth Prizewinning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of Indias capital. But it also offers... |
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The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
Gregg Herken - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington—a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner.In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
A. J. Langguth - Simon & Schuster; First Edition / First Printing edition Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals,"... |
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Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
FRED KAPLAN - Harper Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed biographer, with a thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, provides both perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race... |
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
E R Mayhew - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep... |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Daniel P Bolger - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong.Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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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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Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
Bernard Bailyn - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history.The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different... |
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Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman - Knopf Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial... |
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