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1) The American
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During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintre to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class.
3) H.R.H
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Princess Christiana's father, reigning prince of Liechtenstein, has plans for her life. After four years studying in the U.S. at Berkeley, life in her father's palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdom--the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And...
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"Mushrooms are an incredibly vast range of species, including all shapes and sizes and colors. This exciting collection includes a wealth of information on two hundred essential mushroom varieties, including their: Scientific names; Habitats; Modes of development; Botanical specificities; Uses in culinary cuisine; And more! Spread throughout this book are hand-drawn illustrations and full-color photographs of every mushroom you can imagine. Whether...
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A concise and entertaining explanation of how other accounts, and popular culture such as films, have misrepresented medieval warfare.
We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their maces and poleaxes for hours on end, as depicted on film and in programs such as Game of Thrones? They could not have done so. It is impossible to fight in such a manner for more than several minutes...
7) Tomorrow
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"A wise old dog travels through the courts and battlefields of Europe and through the centuries in search of the master who granted him immortality"--
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Part I: Defeat -- 1. A Train Journey in Spring -- 2. Russian Revolutions -- 3. Brest-Litovsk -- 4. The Taste of Victory -- 5. Reversals of Fortune -- Part II: Revolution and Counter-Revolution -- 6. No End to War -- 7. The Russian Civil Wars -- 8. The Apparent Triumph of Democracy -- 9. Radicalization -- 10. Fear of Bolshevism and the Rise of Fascism -- Part III: Imperial Collapse -- 11. Pandora's Box : Paris and the Problem of Empire -- 12. Reinventing...
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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 15
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In a safe house near the Syrian border, a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target: the director of social media for ISIS, Abu Muslim al-Naser. Multiple analysts, as well as a senior congresswoman, are in country to monitor the raid, but before the team can launch, the safe house is attacked. What unfolds in the bloody aftermath is a political and public relations nightmare. As horrific...
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"Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet-a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $3 0 billion in Nazi gold, untouched...
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Time magazine called her "the Mata Hari of Minnesota"; OSS Chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called her "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." But for decades, the extent of Betty Pack's achievements as an agent during World War II, first for Britain's MI6 and then for America's OSS, remained classified. Now, the truth about this femme fatale--her dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions, the heartaches that haunted her life, her vital contributions...
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Recounts the story of the six double agents--Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle, Garbo, and a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time--who would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety on 6 June 1944, D-Day.
The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the key...
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"We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, just as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. In the face of turmoil in Europe, Wilson was determined to move America away from the isolationism that had defined the nation's foreign policy and to embrace an active role in shaping world affairs. Just ten days later, Tsar Nicholas...
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When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe. Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule - in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands- to be brought to heel by...
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"At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising...
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In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, this book follows the Monuments Men on their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis. These unlikely heroes, mostly middle-aged family men, walked...
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Like almost all other men who ascended to the position of pope, Eugenio Pacelli was a clever Vatican politician. As his predecessor, Pius XI, alienated non-Italian cardinals, Pacelli carried out the Vatican's wishes abroad as nuncio (the Vatican version of an ambassador). He became known to foreign cardinals, who are essential to elect a pope, and a favorite of Pius XI and his not-insignificant band of supporters. Pacelli easily became Pius XII.
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From Alan Furst, bestselling author of Blood of Victory and Dark Voyage, comes a thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts' passion to fight in the war against tyranny. Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy -- it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine émigré newspaper. Carlo...