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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany"Riveting...An elegantly composed study, important and even timely" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich--how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power and plunged the world into World War II. In "the new definitive volume on...
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Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of WarA gripping tale of international intrigue, betrayal, and personal drama during the darkest days of the Cold War, Eisenhower 1956 is the first major book to examine the event in thirty years.Debunking most historians' opinion that the Suez crisis was merely a minor incident...
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Enemies: A History of the FBIThe hidden history of the FBI and its hundred-year war against terrorists, spies, and anyone it deemed subversive--including even American presidents. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A SHOWTIME ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES "Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is...
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960sIn the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of family values and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again...
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The Nightingale's SongRobert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors,...
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."-Senator John McCain Fallujah: Iraq's most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell...
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The Grand AllianceThe British, Soviets, and Americans unite in this chapter of the six-volume WWII history by the legendary prime minister and Nobel Prize recipient.The Grand Alliance describes the end of an extraordinary period in British military history, in which Britain stood alone against Germany. Two...
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The Year of Peril: America in 1942This fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II "place(s) today's myriad social traumas and dislocations in perspective."--George Will, Washington Post Winner of the New-York Historical Society's Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize The...
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A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull's History provides a solid foundation for understanding of the two-hundred-year trajectory of Singapore from colonial outpost to world city. While many modern...
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The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest HemingwayA ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various...
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The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case"A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post), The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003--including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet...
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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918A dramatic account of the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in the First World War--and came close to succeeding.In this "fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) narrative, Michael Kazin brings us into the ranks of one of the largest, most diverse, and...
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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security AgencyThe National Security Agency is the world's most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America's spy world. In the...
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil WarNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 10 BEST BOOKS - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - 2011 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - The New Yorker - Chicago Tribune - The Economist - Nancy Pearl, NPR -...
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The Naval War of 1812Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier...
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The Washington War: Fdr's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War IIA Team of Rivals for World War II--the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. The Washington War is the...
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The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America"Davis's accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling."--The Wall Street Journal From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War...
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The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in AmericaThe oral history of Angels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it--a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and pure theater magic (NPR). A STONEWALL BOOK AWARDS HONOR BOOK When Tony...
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Forts of the American Revolution 1775-83Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the most important campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah and frontier forts--at Stanwix, Niagara and...
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Scalia: A Court of One"[Murphy's] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally....Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century." (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the...
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