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TET Offensive 1968: Turning Point in VietnamOsprey's study of the 1968 Tet Offensive, which was the decisive battle for Vietnam (1955-1975). Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and...
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The Solar Eclipse: A James Anderson MysteryIt is 1925, a year after James Anderson was cast out from his position with the Conway Police in New Hampshire. Starting a new life in New York, he gets a call that makes him return home to face the unsolved mystery and demons...
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One Woman ShowA sly and stylish novel--remarkably told through museum wall labels--about a twentieth-century woman who transforms herself from a precious object into an unforgettable protagonist. Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall...
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Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New OrleansAs the US entered World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a strong cultural tie to the Allies, and French speakers from Louisiana provided vital technical assistance...
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Kursk 1943: The Northern FrontKursk 1943 focuses on the northern front and the battle of Kursk, and period of July 5th to August 18th, 1943, covering both the German offensive and the Soviet counteroffensive - Model's AOK 9 pitted against General Konstantin Rokossovsky's Central Front. After recovering from...
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Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally HemingsA penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jefferson's paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom. It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children,...
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US Policy in the Nordic-Baltic Region: During the Cold War and afterIn this book, the author analyzes the role that the Nordic-Baltic region has played in US strategy in the 60 years since the end of World War II. How has the US viewed the strategic and political situation in the Nordic?-?and from the end...
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By the Wand of Some Magician: Embracing Modernity in Mid-Nineteenth Century VermontBy the Wand of Some Magician addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that introduced an unprepared, rural population to the effects of modernity. It is conveyed through the debates that legislators had following the...
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Lemuel Parker, Bingham PhotographerA photographic collection of early twentieth century rural scenes and life in the Williamson County, Tennessee communities of Bingham and Leiper's Fork. Photographs were taken by local farmer and sawmill owner, Lemuel Parker (1879-1956), of family, neighbors, churches, schools, and country living.Author: Rick WarwickPublisher:...
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Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its PrisonersA history of modern Germany told not through the lives of its leaders, but its lawbreakers. As Nelson Mandela said, "a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful...
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Army & Navy Chronicle: Seminole War Guide, 2d edition with AppendixThe Army and Navy Chronicle published from 1835 to 1842, and with a second run that went until 1844, was the Army Times of Antebellum Jacksonian expansion of the United States. During that time, the country became embroiled in a war that engaged half...
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Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in MississippiIn April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor...
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Cold War Triangle: How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIVA small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the political divide of the Cold War to...
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The Minnesota Massacre and Sioux War of 1862-63: A Personal Narrative of Plains Indians Warfare by a Soldier of the 6th Minnesota RegimentAn eyewitness account of Indian warfare during the American Civil War For anyone interested in the history of the American West-and the wars against the Plains Indian tribes in particular-this book will be a delight. The author enlisted in the Union Army to fight...
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Massacre on the River Raisin: Three Accounts of the Disastrous Michigan Campaign During the War of 1812The defeat of the Army of the Northwest in Michigan The Battle of Frenchtown (which was also known as the Battle of the River Raisin and subsequently the River Raisin Massacre) was a particularly disastrous episode for American forces during the War of 1812....
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Stefano Magaddino; a family storyThe true story of the Magaddino family--as told by Stefano Magaddino's granddaughter, Joanne LaDuca Rangatore.Author: Joanne Carmela RangatorePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/11/2016Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28dISBN: 9781539483601This title is not returnable
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The Horse and Tractor Wars: Letters & Lessons from an Old HorsemanConfined to a nursing home in Iowa in 1960, a time-worn horseman seeks to educate his grandson about the great transformation in American agriculture when horse power gave way to tractor power (1910-1950). Walt Decker spent nearly four decades as the chief national defender...
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Historical Collections of the Indians in New England. of Their Several Nations, Numbers, Customs, Manners, Religion and Government, Before the EnglishThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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From Here We Changed the World: Amazing Stories of Pilgrim and Rebels from North Nottinghamshire and West LincolnshireA small circle drawn around North Nottinghamshire and West Lincolnshire, centred on Retford/Gainsborough, encompasses the origins of most of the important English-speaking Protestant denominations. With Thomas Cranmer born just to the south, this area of market towns and quiet villages has produced generation after...
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Afghanistan 1979-88: Soviet Air Power Against the MujahideenThe first English-language book to examine the crucial part air power played in the Soviet-Afghan War. The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was fought as much in the air as on the ground. From the high-level bombing raids that blasted rebel-held mountain valleys, to...
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