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  • Carnage and Courage

    A Memoir of FDR, the Kennedys, and World War II

    by Page Wilson ...
    Carnage and Courage is the story of an American woman’s journey from upper-crust ingénue to a career in the US diplomatic corps. At President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's behest, Page Wilson left the US to serve in London with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy as he took up his post just before World War II began and the Blitz commenced.With the conflict in Europe already underway, Wilson, working with ... Read more

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  • Aggression, Crime and International Security

    Moral, Political and Legal Dimensions of International Relations

    by Page Wilson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations.This book analyses the evolution of the concept of aggression in international relations from World War I to the post-Rome Statute era. It charts the emergence of two competing visions of this notion: on ... Read more

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    From Peterloo to Parliament

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  • War's End

    An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

    On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion. In the belly of his bomber, Bock's Car, was a newly developed, fully armed weapon that had ... Read more

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  • A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England

    by Sue Wilkes ...
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    " Wilkes makes the world of Jane Austen come to life . . . from travel to fashion, shopping, leisure, and, of course, finding a mate" ( Britain Express ).Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of ... Read more

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  • The Undercover Nazi Hunter

    Exposing Subterfuge and Unmasking Evil in Post-War Germany

    by Wolfe Frank ...
    A 1949 series of articles on life in post-World War II Germany, written by an undercover German reporter for an American paper—and the story behind them.Wolfe Frank was chief interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed "The Voice of Doom." A playboy turned resistance worker branded an "enemy of the state—to be shot on sight," he had fled Germany for England in 1937. Initially interned ... Read more

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  • The Home Place

    Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

    "A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful."—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkA Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award WinnerIn me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.Dating back to ... Read more

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    America at War and at Home in 1944

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    A meticulous exploration of one of the most important years in American history.The D-Day invasion, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.Brooks also argues that only the particular ... Read more

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  • Crazy Horse

    The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy

    "A family account of the life of Tashunke Witko, their great Sioux relative . . . For the first time, the Clown family members tell their oral history."— True WestThe Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and ... Read more

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  • The Crisis Years

    Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

    The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling ... Read more

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  • Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900

    Series Book 1 - Winston S. Churchill Biography
    The first volume of this authoritative biography chronicles the prime minister's youth from birth to early adulthood: "An intimate, eloquent testimonial" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Winston S. Churchill's son, Randolph, delivers a vivid, personal portrait of his father in this first part of an eight-volume biography that is widely considered the "most scholarly study of Churchill in war and ... Read more

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  • Blowback

    America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy

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    A searing account of a dark "chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies" ( Library Journal).Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA ... Read more

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