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  • August 1914

    France, the Great War, and a Month that Changed the World Forever

    by Bruno Cabanes ...
    Translated by Stephanie O'Hara ...
    A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France.On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . .Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. ... Read more

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  • Globalizing the History of the World Wars

    Edited by Bruno Cabanes, Cameron Givens ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Positioned at the crossroads of global and military history, this volume makes a major contribution to the cultural and social history of war and its aftermath. Bruno Cabanes and Cameron Givens bring together a team of leading experts to reassess the two world wars, connecting time periods, topics, and spaces traditionally treated in isolation. They examine how these armed conflicts engendered new ... Read more

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  • The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924

    by Bruno Cabanes ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. They were also the stateless, the children who suffered war's consequences, and later the victims of the great Russian famine of 1921 to 1923. Before the phrases 'universal human rights' and 'non-governmental ... Read more

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    The Secret Life of Money leads readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the sources of our monetary desires. By understanding why money has the power to obsess us, we gain the power to end destructive patterns and discover riches of the soul. Midas who can turn all to gold, fishermen who will not share their catch, Dorothy and her companions on the golden road to the Emerald City, Scrooge who ... Read more

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  • Midlothian Mayhem

    Murder, Miners and the Military in Old Midlothian

    Murders, riots, strikes and runaway horses. Midlothian in the 18th and 19th centuries was an interesting place to live.This book introduces the reader to the hard lives of the colliers, the birth of the rural police force and the impact the army had on life in the county south of Scotland's capital city. Highwaymen and grave robbers, footpads and murderers, illicit distillers and murderous ... Read more

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  • Just Another Day in Vietnam

    This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an "informant" to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III ... Read more

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    Life and Loss in America's Secret War

    Jerry Rose, a young journalist and photographer in Vietnam, exposed the secret beginnings of America’s Vietnam War in the early 1960s. Putting his life in danger, he interviewed Vietnamese villagers in a countryside riddled by a war of terror and intimidation and embedded himself with soldiers on the ground, experiences that he distilled into the first major article to be written about American ... Read more

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    A Relative Story

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    The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

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    A definitive chronicle of the 1871 Chicago Fire as remembered by those who experienced it—from the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination.Over three days in October, 1871, much of Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in the intervening decades—and much of the ... Read more

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  • How Ike Led

    The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions

    "Lays bare the essence of [President Eisenhower's] leadership in war and peace—his singular devotion to the unity and security of the American people." — The Wall Street JournalFew leaders have made decisions as momentous—and varied—as Dwight D. Eisenhower. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, Ike was able to give ... Read more

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  • The Girl and the Bombardier

    A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France

    This enthralling WWII biography combines a downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished memoir with letters from the French girl who saved his life.Susan Tate Ankeny's father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, ... Read more

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