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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920'sFrederick Lewis Allen (July 5, 1890 Boston, Massachusetts - February 13, 1954 New York City) was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about what was at...
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Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a NationThe powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom...
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The BazookaThe bazooka was the popular name given to the innovative US rocket-propelled, man-portable antitank weapon that saw widespread service with US and other forces from 1942 to the early 1980s and was described by Eisenhower as one of the four "Tools of Victory" -...
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The Uzi Submachine GunThe Uzi submachine gun is one of the most recognizable weapons in history. Its familiarity stems in part from the sheer diversity of its users. Uzis have been seen gripped and fired by US secret service agents and SWAT teams, Israeli soldiers, European special...
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Memory's EncouragementOn Language, Memory, and Illness As Tony Gorry recalls scenes from his earliest childhood and adolescence, he weaves his present reality with these images to unlock meaning hidden in the remembered moments. On their surface they may appear "ordinary," but as Memory's Encouragement reveals,...
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After LiberalismIn After Liberalism, the distinguished historian and political scientist Immanuel Wallerstein examines the process of disintegration of our modern world-system and speculates on the changes that may occur during the next few decades. He explores the historical choices before us and suggests paths for...
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Charles Williams: The Third InklingThis is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings--the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams--novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru--was the strangest, most...
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Short Stirling Units of World War 2Of the RAF's trio of four-engined heavy bombers in World War 2, the mighty Short Stirling was the first to enter service in August 1940. From its first raid in February 1941, the Stirling was at the forefront of the British night bombing offensive...
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement;...
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The Complete SakiThe complete works of one of England's greatest Edwardian writers Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in...
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Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and WhiteWinner of the Z calo Public Square Book PrizeBenjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist "An insightful, powerful, and moving book."--Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice "Sturkey's clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he...
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Charles Dickens: A LifeAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles...
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The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush (original edition)This thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill the Klondike experience into a...
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The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in EuropeA dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin,...
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F-8 Crusader Vs Mig-17: Vietnam 1965-72This book covers the actions fought between two of the best known fighters of the Vietnam War, in action over the North during the early years of the conflict. Revered by Naval Aviators as the last of the gunfighters due to its quartet of...
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We Are Worth Fighting for: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the...
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The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan CultureFrom the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural...
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The Last Division: Berlin, the Wall, and the Cold War"A brilliant paper chase--an excellent book."--Library Journal JFK, Khrushchev, Reagan, and a city divided. Berlin has played a major role in world politics since the Nazi era and continues to be in the spotlight today as the once-again-great capital of Germany. Ann Tusa presents...
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia TrapThe definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the male breadwinner marriage is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were...
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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United StatesThe best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reynolds offers a single-volume account spanning the entire course of US history, from 1776 to...
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