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Herndon's Life of LincolnWilliam H. Herndon's Life of Lincoln, written to counteract the worshipful view of Abraham Lincoln held by the public, caused enormous controversy when first published in 1889. Unlike the hagiographies that celebrate the selflessness of the Great Emancipator, Herndon's account emphasizes Lincoln's private life:...
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The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the WestThe Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so fragmented politically and culturally that it would...
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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of Peninsular WarThe Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's troops across the length...
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A Military History of the Western World, Vol. II: From the Defeat of the Spanish Armada to the Battle of WaterlooMajor General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing...
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The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933-1945In chilling detail, this social history brilliantly demonstrates the awesome power of a brutal government to corrode the human spirit.--Wall Street JournalInvaluable for every student of the Nazi era.--New York Times Book Review The 12-Year Reich, the first comprehensive social study of the Third...
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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those That Fought and Lived ItHere is the American Revolution, the epic struggle that brought forth a new nation, told in a great measure by those who fought and lived it: major figures like Washington, Revere, Franklin and many others heretofore unknown. This is a document of the first...
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century WarfareThe characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historians may gloss over human slaughter, emphasizing the defense of national honor, but for men in active service, warfare means being - or becoming - efficient killers. In An...
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The Bitter WoodsIt was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The Allied generals had to rally beaten, dispirited troops in the face of an attack they had never dreamed possible.A study...
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The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in AmericaThe assassination of Kennedy & Luther King, the Tet offensive in Vietnam, campus riots & the election of Nixon. The year is 1968 & for millions of Americans the dream of a nation facing up to basic problems at home & abroad were shattered.Author:...
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American MonsterFROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America....
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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped ItA fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event--the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, DC, that saved the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner...
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A Thousand SunsFrom Mother Teresa and the slums of Calcutta to a legendary matador in the bull rings of Spain to the final days of the British Raj in India, "A Thousand Suns" tells of the extraordinary individuals and events that have shaped the 20th century.Author:...
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As Good as a FireWhen Peg Ryan has a chance to join her Marine fighter pilot husband in Tsingtao, China in 1947, she jumps at it. After their separation during World War II and his year in China, her family could be whole again. Soon Peg and her...
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The Revolution that Wasn't: My Candid Observations about the Shared Cuba and US HistoriesWhile this work tries to be a primer in Cuban history in its relationship with its northern neighbor and mentor, the United States, before the Castro takeover, it is a great deal more. Aside from relating her experiences growing up in La Habana, the...
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Maria Von Blücher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879 Volume 5In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Blücher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian...
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The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social OrderIn the past thirty years, the United States has undergone a profound transformation in its social structure: Crime has increased, trust has declined, families have broken down, and individualism has triumphed over community. Has the Great Disruption of recent decades rent the fabric of...
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Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America's Half-Open Door, 1945 to the PresentFrom Simon & Schuster, Calculated Kindness is Gil Loescher and John A. Scanlan's exploration to refugees and America's half-open door from 1945 to present day. In Calculated Kindness, Gil Loescher and John A. Scanlan argue that government immigration policies have favored refugees from left-wing...
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Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile CrisisPopular history marks October 28, 1962, as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet as JFK's secretly recorded White House tapes reveal, the aftermath of the crisis was a political and diplomatic minefield. The president had to push hard to get Khrushchev to...
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Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost LinerIn Titanic Tragedy maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham documents the vessel's design, construction, and departure from Southampton, her passengers' lifeboat ordeal, their Carpathia rescue, the role of new technologies, and memorials to her crew. He describes poignantly the performance of her eight gallant bandsmen who...
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New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American VillageJohn Baskin lived in New Burlington for its final year, commemorating and recording its residents' heartbreaking stories. The result is one of the most unique and beautiful histories ever written about rural America. This edition features a new introduction by the author.Author: John BaskinPublisher:...
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