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Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner's Rebellious GranddaughterThe first-ever biography of Richard Wagner's artistically gifted granddaughter who fought against Hitler's Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles. She was not the 'black sheep' of her family, as often claimed, but a heroic rebel. Friedelind Wagner (1918-1991), Richard Wagner's independent-minded...
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The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of LiteratureThe business of making an American literary icon The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway's working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical study...
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The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark: Volume 1In 1798--more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes--William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 1/2: Large Print EditionThis is volume 1 of a 2 volume set. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War,...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 2/2: Large Print EditionBorn in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an...
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Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast AsiaThis gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Fire and Rain is...
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This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass IncarcerationWhile state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of...
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The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama CanalThe construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to...
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Westland Sea King Owners' Workshop Manual: 1988 Onwards (Hu Mk.5 Sar Model) - An Insight Into the Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of tAn insight into the design, construction and operation of the Royal Navy's classic search and rescue helicopter. For more than 25 years the Agusta Westland Sea King has been that most welcome of sights around the English coast, providing essential Search and Rescue (SAR)...
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Mary Rose - King Henry VIII's Warship 1510-45: Insights Into the Construction, Operation, Rescue and Restoration of a Great Tudor Ship and Its ContentFrom the time that Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose was raised from the Solent in 1982 after 437 years on the seabed, to the present day, she has been constantly in the public eye. The Tudor ship and the 19,000 artefacts recovered from within...
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Sailing Into History: Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the Twentieth Century and the Crews Who Sailed ThemThe Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes...
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The Frank W. Angel Report on the Death of John H. Tunstall"In the matter of the cause and circumstances of the death of John H. Tunstall a British subject to the honorable Charles Devens, Attorney General...."So begins the single most important contemporary document recounting the origins of the Lincoln County War. That document is the...
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Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War IIBetween 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and...
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Sedgemoor 1685: Marlborough's First VictoryA new account of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 and the Battle of Sedgemoor. The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign. He retraces the routes taken by the...
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Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United StatesEmotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondage and experienced freedom. Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people,...
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The Swedish Army of the Great Northern War, 1700-1721The book describes the development of the Swedish Army during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721, when Sweden fought against a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Poland-Saxony. For parts of the war, Prussia and Hanover also joined the enemy coalition. The book describes how the...
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Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965, the government--made up of European settlers and their...
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn BridgeThe dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is...
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The Battle of Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 takes a fresh view of this curious and remarkable, but part-forgotten engagement. It was fought on 10 June 1719, during the long daylight hours of a summer evening in the mountainous western Highlands of Scotland. Glenshiel was the...
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Rendezvous with the Enemy: My Brother's Life and Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern IrelandAs a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. In the 80's and 90's Northern Ireland was...
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