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The 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history. It is a clearly defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period. So, what can we learn from war, and warfare, in the 20th century? War is hugely important. War shapes continents, and can do so dramatically quickly. After just 52 months of the First World War, four empires had ceased to exist. Eight new countries...
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The concept of Manifest Destiny has been highly misinterpreted. Such items as the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the US as the hemisphere policeman, exploitation of Pacific Island Nations, and the list goes on, have been, and continue to be blamed on alleged Christian-based Imperialism.
Hence this book focuses on setting the record straight, showing via a historical and political analysis how this misinterpretation has occurred. It begins with a focus...
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Fourteen-year-old Sharon Renae Daniels falls in love with Jimmy Lee Lane, the leader of an up-and-coming rock band. Sharon is new to the Charleston, West Virginia, area after moving from Cedar Bluff, North Carolina. She is still making new friends when she happens to see the Jimmy Lane Band in concert at their high school.
Jimmy notices her as well in the crowded lunchroom. It takes weeks, however, for them to actually meet in person due to previous...
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It's April 1944, England is preparing to take the war back into Europe, and the girls of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club become mixed up in a desperate fight to save a dear friend from forces who would threaten the very existence of the country. The girls find solace in their deep friendship, even though the presence of a Nazi spy ring threatens their essential war work and their very lives. Can love blossom through a fortunate meeting, and...
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The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies lasted from the late 1940s through the late 1980s. But the armed forces of the two superpowers met only through proxies. The primary front-line soldiers in the Cold War were diplomats, political leaders, and intelligence officers. David M. Bush was a career military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency during the last decade and a half of the Cold War. This is a first-person...
86) Whiskey Secrets
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Their world is collapsing! Prohibition has reached its tentacles into the hollows of Tennessee. It's no secret Tom Tanner's Tennessee Whiskey heirs are playing both sides of the law to save their livelihood-the challenge is not getting caught. Tom Tanner
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Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defenses gave way to a massive invasion, and how they survived occupation.
While some established a cautiously pragmatic modus vivendi with the occupiers, some Islanders opted for active resistance. Others joined advancing British troops,...
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The renowned historian weaves a definitive account of the Holocaust-from Hitler's rise to power to the final defeat of the Nazis in 1945. Rich with eyewitness accounts, incisive interviews, and first-hand source materials-including documentation from the Eichmann and Nuremberg war crime trials-this sweeping narrative begins with an in-depth historical analysis of the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and tracks the systematic brutality of Hitler's...
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A spellbinding moment-by-moment account of one of the most spectacular disasters off the coast of New York, which killed more than 130 people, Shipwreck answers the question that until now has remained unanswered: Was it a terrible accident - or arson? In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle, carrying 316 passengers and 230 officers and crew, caught fire a few hours out of the New York harbor on a return...
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Disputes between Ecuador and Peru are nearly 200 years old and revolve around the question of Ecuador's territory extending beyond the Andes and into the Amazonian basin – or not.
Based on diverse interpretations of the Real Cedulas (Royal Proclamations) Spain used to define its colonial territories in the Americas, they became the source of the longest-running international armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere.
Despite numerous attempts...
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Más de 30 millones de personas han leído la historia de Ana Frank, la niña de trece años que se escondió con su familia en Ámsterdam durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y que fue descubierta por los nazis y enviada a un campo de concentración; donde murió. Pero a pesar de todos los artículos, libros, obras de teatro y novelas dedicadas al tema, ninguno ha explicado de manera concluyente cómo los Frank y otras cuatro personas lograron vivir...
92) Into the Moment
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While training for the D-Day invasion, paratrooper Jeremy's selfish desire to live life to the fullest gets a big push when he falls in love with beautiful, but emotionally battered, war widow Julie. Convinced he is not going to survive the war, and completely "into the moment," Jeremy persuades Julie to marry him. But once he ships overseas he is plagued with the fear he may have endangered his wife's life by failing to warn her that he is more than...
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In the wake of the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the country came under the rule of the Somoza family, which imposed a brutal and corrupt military dictatorship. A low-scale insurgency of students, supported by peasants and other anti-Somoza elements of the society developed already in the 1960s. By the 1970s, the country became embroiled in a brutal insurgency. Supported by Cuba, a coalition of students, farmers, businessmen, clergy and a small...
94) Her
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In the haunting aftermath of the Second World War, a war correspondent embarks on a poignant quest to understand the woman he once loved and who spurned him.As he journeys through the war-torn streets of Europe, he unravels a tale that she never dared to share.Amidst the backdrop of their passionate love story, he uncovers a harrowing narrative of brutality, sexual abuse, and the indomitable spirit to overcome such darkness.This tale delves deep into...
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A decade after leaving Louisiana amid a swirl of successes and sorrows, Joy Faye Savoy returns to the South. By her side is her scandalous best friend, never far from her mind is her unforgettable mother, and off in the Blue Ridge Mountains somewhere is the heartthrob from her past. While Joy's life in California is filled to overflowing with hearth and home, she has come to Asheville, North Carolina, seeking private atonement during springtime in...
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1941 sees Mollie McAllister, her friends, and America emerge from a simpler time to face a World War, that involved everyone in some way, nurses, and the military especially. Though many things are rationed, and everyone must conserve and work, these young women find ways to have fun and romance. Each day Mollie wonders if she will ever be reunited with her brother who is a prisoner of war, or her beloved fiancé, Ron, a Navy pilot on a carrier in...
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Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through Outside the Gates of Eden, Peter Bacon Haless ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age.
Born under the shadow of the bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover, the postwar generations lived throughand ledsome of the most momentous changes in all...
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"A debut novel everyone will be talking about," Avery Cunningham's epic love story is "a triumph" and "a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of early 20th century Chicago."
When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago.
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Updated with the latest evidence, Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers's essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy's assassination He was holding out his hand... He looked puzzled... Then he slumped in my lap... I kept bending over him saying, 'Jack, Jack, can you hear me? I love you, Jack...' The seat was full of blood and red roses...." Jacqueline Kennedy, recalling the fatal moment in Dallas Fifty years on, most Americans still...