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The First World War"This serious, compact survey of the war's history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available." (Los Angeles Times) Nearly a century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Literature...
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan...
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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War"Original and revelatory."--David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award FinalistA Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the Year In April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate,...
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in AmericaA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus Reviews (Best Nonfiction)Countless books...
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History#1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in...
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. An evocative account . . . Cannadine] tells his own story persuasively and exceedingly well." --The Wall Street Journal To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and...
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKThe assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner...
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The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944Now available in paperback, this book tells the detailed and engrossing account of the fighting in Ukraine in 1944, making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers involved in the fighting, as well as partisans behind the German lines, to bring...
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The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our CountryOne hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans of the twentieth century. Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood...
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States--and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Been...
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Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II ArkansasNot long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II, the federal government rounded up more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent-both immigrants and native-born citizens-and began one of the most horrific mass-incarceration events in...
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A Wonderful World: MemoirsBorn less than 24h after the invasion of his country by the German troops, the author as an innocent baby joined the sad exodus of Belgian and French civilians trying to escape fighting.And the murderous bombing by the Stukas, a plane built to terrorize...
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Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America FirstMeet the "Useful Idiots" Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, Madeleine Albright, Katie Couric, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and all the other liberals who were -- and are -- always willing to blame America first and defend its enemies as simply "misunderstood."...
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The MayflowerThe ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest...
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Cattlemen Vs Sheepherders: Five Decades of Violence in the WestFrom the 1870s until the 1920s cattlemen and sheepmen clashed bitterly for rangeland in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. During five decades of irregular but vicious warfare, scores of attacks were launched by cattlemen, at least twenty-eight sheepmen and...
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Last Words: Dying in the Old WestDying in the Old West chronicles the last words and dramatic deaths of over 550 Old West personalities. From the first entry, dated 1773, to the last, dated 1954, Radison's Last Words takes the reader into the unique world that was the Old West,...
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World Affairs CompanionFrom Simon & Schuster, The World Affairs Companion is Gerald Segal's essential one-volume guide to global issues that you can't afford to miss. The World Affairs is a fascinating, facts-at-your-fingertips guidebook for the newswatcher, armchair strategist or student of international politics, and the first...
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The BafflerIn the old Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads, steel mills, and banks. But today it is culture that stands at the heart of the American enterprise, mass entertainment the economic dynamo that brings the public...
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The Passport as Home: Comfort in RootlessnessThis is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration for his life's work. As we follow his quest to...
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What Lies Beneath: Texas Pioneer Cemeteries and GraveyardsUnearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Lone Star State Texas, the second largest state, both in land mass and population, has more than 50,000 cemeteries, graveyards, and burial grounds. As the final resting places of those whose...
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