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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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For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes ItFor God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the...
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War"Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts's prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better-told military history of World War II." -New York Times Book...
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The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record...
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of...
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American Women During World War IIHundreds of books have been written about horrific combat stories from WWII, the most brutal war in history.Few books have been written describing the efforts of the American women during that time.Combat changed the lives of American men, while home front circumstances shaped a...
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Camp 21 Comrie: POWs and Post-War Stories from CultybragganCamp 21 Comrie, also known as Cultybraggan Camp, is the UK's best preserved prisoner of war camp. Lying in the heart of rural Perthshire in Scotland, the camp's history is a fascinating one. Built two miles south of the village of Comrie as a...
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Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War ICrammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death, over 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish state, twenty years before the start of Hitler's Holocaust. The United States' government called it a crime...
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1932: The Rise of Hitler and Fdr--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely DestinyTwo Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president--ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover....
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Basingstoke Workhouse: And Poor Law UnionThis absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor souls kept in the medical wing, it reveals a side of Basingstoke that has long since been forgotten. It...
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Leith Shipyards 1918-1939This volume includes some very famous ships with tales of adventure and new trade routes, also sadness, the launch and then the loss of the largest sailing ship ever built in a British shipyard - the five-masted auxiliary sailing barque, Kobenhavn. It recounts the...
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The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871: Touring the Sedan CampaignIn 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied German states that was to be a complete disaster. For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and the Army of of...
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