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The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War IThis book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published. It shows how AEF combat units actually fought on the Western Front in World War I. It describes how four AEF divisions (the 1st, 2nd, 26th,...
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Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito MussoliniEighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's lack of insight into the requirements of governance prevented...
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Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's CrusadeLongtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in...
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An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were full of monsoon rain. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were...
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Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions MovementDecades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to "unbankable" communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan...
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Icons of Our Heritage: Country Churches, One-Room Schools, Water Powered Mills and Bridges to the Past: The Roles They Played in the DevelopmChurches nurtured the spirits of our ancestors and kept them going in the face of adversity. The rural church, with its steeple or belfry, was more than a picturesque feature of the countryside; it was a vital part of American life. Churches established the...
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Perfect Amount of Wrong: The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago's North SideIn just over a decade, a tiny, do-it-yourself stand-up scene on the North Side of Chicago produced some of the most successful and influential stand-up comedians of their generation. Hannibal Buress, T.J. Miller, Kyle Kinane, Cameron Esposito, Pete Holmes, Beth Stelling, Matt Braunger and...
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Memorial Book of the Community of Maków-MazowieckiIn the northeast of Mazovia, once Greater-Poland, the town of Makow-Mazowiecki, county seat of Powiat, is set on the banks of the Orzysz river.A Jewish community was established in Maków in the middle of the 16th century and was subordinate to the kehilla in...
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Dorsey FamilyThe Dorsey family of Anne Arundel County is one of Maryland's most illustrious families, and this volume traces its descent from Edward Darcy-Dorsey the immigrant (d. 1659) and his wife, Ann, through both the male and female lines, for five generations. Researched from original...
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Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIn June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of...
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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The Final Solution in HistoryWas the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and convincing explanations...
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Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New YorkThe great founding figures of organized crime in the 20th century were born and bred in New York City, and the city was the basis of their operations. Beginning with Prohibition and going on through many illegal activities the mob became a major force...
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Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American NationhoodA lively portrait of Horace Greeley, one of the nineteenth century's most fascinating public figures.The founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, Horace Greeley was the most significant--and polarizing--American journalist of the nineteenth century. To the farmers and tradesmen of the rural North, the...
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Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the SelfLate Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose. Works by these queer artists have rarely been taken seriously as contributions to the theories of sexuality or aesthetics. But...
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The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as LeaderDrawing on extensive interviews and archival research, Fred Greenstein reveals that there was great political activity beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower White House. In a new foreword to this edition, he discusses developments in the study of the Eisenhower presidency in the...
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The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of RaceHow did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era?Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies AssociationWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well...
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the HolocaustThe astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and...
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Miss Morgan's Book BrigadeAuthor: Janet Skeslillen CharlesPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 05/29/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9798885798402
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The President's WifeThe incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidencySocialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President...
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His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying MachineFrom the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world's largest airship--and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at...
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