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Camp 21 Comrie: POWs and Post-War Stories from CultybragganCamp 21 Comrie, also known as Cultybraggan Camp, is the UK's best preserved prisoner of war camp. Lying in the heart of rural Perthshire in Scotland, the camp's history is a fascinating one. Built two miles south of the village of Comrie as a...
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Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War ICrammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death, over 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish state, twenty years before the start of Hitler's Holocaust. The United States' government called it a crime...
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1932: The Rise of Hitler and Fdr--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely DestinyTwo Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president--ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover....
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Basingstoke Workhouse: And Poor Law UnionThis absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor souls kept in the medical wing, it reveals a side of Basingstoke that has long since been forgotten. It...
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Leith Shipyards 1918-1939This volume includes some very famous ships with tales of adventure and new trade routes, also sadness, the launch and then the loss of the largest sailing ship ever built in a British shipyard - the five-masted auxiliary sailing barque, Kobenhavn. It recounts the...
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The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871: Touring the Sedan CampaignIn 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied German states that was to be a complete disaster. For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and the Army of of...
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Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884Launched as part of the United States participation in the first International Polar Year, the Greely Arctic Expedition sent twenty-five volunteers to Ellesmere Island off the northwest coast of Greenland. The crew was commanded by Adolphus W. Greely, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army's...
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for KeepsRingolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City's mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the...
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Mind Your Manors: Tried-And-True British Household Cleaning TipsBritish estates were known to be the epitome of cleanliness with their white-glove perfection. Through her meticulous research on servants, Lucy Lethbridge gleaned much knowledge about how these homes were made to gleam over almost two centuries, from the Victorian through the Edwardian years...
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T-54/55: The Most-Produced Tank in Military HistoryDuring the Cold War, the T-54/55 series of tanks represented the most serious threat to Nato land forces in Europe. Available in huge quantities, it formed the core of the Warsaw Pact armored warfare doctrine, which envisaged massed tank attacks against the weakest point...
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The Trader, the Owner, the Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of SlaveryIn this new and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallel lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement--a trader, an owner, and a slave--are examined. John Newton (1725-1807),...
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Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert CutlerThe Cold War, The Lavender Scare, and the Untold Story of Eisenhower's First National Security Advisor. President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert Bobby Cutler -- working alongside Ike and also the Dulles brothers at the CIA and State Department -- shaped US Cold War...
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Morane-Saulnier Ms.406 AcesFrench World War II fighter design was cut short by the fall of France, but the MS.406 also saw service in Vichy French colonies and Finland. The MS.406 was an important aircraft not only because it was built in larger numbers than any other...
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Dresses and Dressmaking: From the Late Georgians to the EdwardiansExamining how dress evolved over the long nineteenth century, between the French Revolution and the First World War, Pam Inder explores the history behind how women's clothing was manufactured and worn. Focusing on specific examples and particular details such as the fabric, cut, trimming...
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Massacre Along the Medicine Road: A Social History of the Indian War of 1864 in Nebraska TerritoryIn August 1864, Cheyenne and Sioux warriors launched a series of raids on the road ranches along the California-Oregon Train in Nebraska Territory, killing, wounding or capturing dozens of white settlers. This book details that violent summer, as seen through the eyes of the...
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Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury AmericaHow record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern.The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like...
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Chicago's Grand Midway: A Walk Around the World at the Columbian ExpositionCreated as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts with...
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Killer on the Road: Violence and the American InterstateStarting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet's largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them--the highway killer. He went by many names: the...
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the WorldIn 1942, a small plane carrying Lt. Col. Franklin T. Matthias and two DuPont engineers flew over three farming communities in eastern Washington. The passengers agreed. Isolated and near the powerful Columbia River, the region was the ideal site for the world's first plutonium...
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Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's GoldIn 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered...
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