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Nuremberg DiaryIn August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi...
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous AbortionistDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history--Madame Restell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York. An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was...
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working ClassThere have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In...
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Storming the ReichAs winter casts its long shadow across Europe, the pulse of battle beats louder, drawing the Littlefield family into the fray of the Siegfried Line and beyond.Jeremy Littlefield stands at a crossroads, his loyalties torn between two continents. On the verge of departing for...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyFrom Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this...
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The Spy Wore Long White GlovesBook 4 of the American Spy Sisters - Inspired by the brave U.S. women secret agents working for Britain's intelligence agencies during WW II. Lacy Farrington Forbes never wanted the life of a debutante. But after a family tragedy pulls her back to America...
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The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--And One Senator's Fight to Save DemocracyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "Timely and long overdue... This book should be required reading."―Tom O'Neill, author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties In this "gripping . . ....
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William...
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Letters to KafkaA sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská's torrid love affair with Franz Kafka. In 1919, Milena Jesenská, a clever and spirited twenty-three-year-old, is trapped in an unhappy marriage to literary critic Ernst Pollak. Since Pollak is unable...
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Black Dirt, Bright StarsAuthor: Will WeaverPublisher: Calumet EditionsPublished: 10/02/2025Pages: 434Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97dISBN: 9781962834582
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Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe"The best modern account" (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than...
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's three largest countries--the United States, Mexico, and Canada--all transformed themselves into nations. The American...
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, SpyWinner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting."--Thomas E. Ricks, New York...
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential CampaignCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election--an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that...
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while...
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish"A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." -- Sadie Stein, Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to...
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The Holocaust: A New History"This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development."―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators...
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No Secrets Among SistersOnce at the top of her field, investigative reporter Amelia Collins has been struggling with the loss of her father. When her story exposing political corruption at the highest level is shelved, her temper erupts, putting her career in jeopardy at a moment when...
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples TempleAn Edgar Award Finalist for Best Fact Crime "A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)--the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in...
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWIINOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil, amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War...
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