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by Gerald Linderman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013

Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one...
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The Fiddler on Pantico Run

An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family

by Joe Mozingo
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

In this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families. “My dad’s family was a mystery,”...
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Storm on the Horizon

Khafji--The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War

by David J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004

Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris...
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The Greatest Show on Earth

The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent...
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by C.A. Tripp
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005

The late C. A. Tripp, a highly regarded sex researcher and colleague of Alfred Kinsey, and author of the runaway bestseller The Homosexual Matrix, devoted the last ten years of his life to an exhaustive study of Abraham Lincoln's writings and of scholarship about Lincoln, in search of hidden keys...
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by D. Clayton James
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

Distinguished historian D. Clayton James offers a brilliant reinterpretation of the Korean War conflict. Focusing on the critical issue of command, he shows how the Korean War is a key to understanding American decision-making in all military encounters since World War II. Korea, the first...
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A Magnificent Catastrophe

The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

by Edward J. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy...
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Alexandria

City of the Western Mind

by Theodore Vrettos
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the...
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The Bible Unearthed

Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Isreal and the Origin of Sacred Texts

by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002

In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors. In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein...
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A Country That Works

Getting America Back on Track

by Andy Stern
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006

Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing...
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Hardball

How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game

by Chris Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999

How politics is played by one who knows the game... Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of...
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Autopsy For An Empire

The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

by Dmitri Volkogonov
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure. Having...
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Trotsky

Eternal Revolutionary

by Dmitri Volkogonov
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008

Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating the system of state terror which was ultimately to lead to the nightmare of Stalinism. This...
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Milosevic

Portrait of a Tyrant

by Dusko Doder, Louise Branson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1999

Who is Slobodan Milosevic? Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute American bombing campaign? The war in...
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