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  • JFK's Last Hundred Days

    The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

    **A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been**Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, JFK’s Last Hundred Days reexamines ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

    After John Kennedy's assassination, Robert - formerly his brother's no-holds-barred political warrior - was left stunned and grieving. He was haunted by his brother's murder and by the nation's failure to address its most pressing challenges - race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. He sensed that America was wounded, and when he announced that he was running for president, much of the country was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • By Blood and Fire

    July 22, 1946: The Attack On Jerusalem's King David Hotel

    On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem's King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arabs, and Jews, in ... Read more

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  • Ask Not

    The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America

    2013 is the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination.A narrative of Kennedy's quest to create a speech that would distill American dreams and empower a new generation, Ask Not is a beautifully detailed account of the inauguration and the weeks preceding it. During a time when America was divided, and its citizens torn by fears of war, John F. Kennedy took office and sought to do more than just ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Last Caravan

    1970s in the Sahara: The Natural Disaster that Threatened a Nomadic People with Extinction

    The Last Caravan is a powerful and dramatic account of how the great African drought of the early 1970s transformed the nomadic Tuareg, the famous blue-veiled men of the Beau Geste legend. Thurston Clarke recounts their story in his words and theirs, allowing them to come to life as they describe their sufferings and wanderings in search of food and comfort. Their story is a powerful one of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ask Not

    The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 40 min

    A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those words, America was divided. Citizens around the world ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Equator

    A Journey

    Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature, Equator is Thurston Clarke's magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth's torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that spanned three years and as many continents. His was a perilous trek across an almost surreal landscape—where a first-class hotel appeared smack in the middle of a leper colony ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    JFK's Last Hundred Days

    The Transformation of a Man and The Emergence of a Great President

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 48 min

    A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have beenFifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key issues of his day: the cold war, civil rights, and Vietnam ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    Honorable Exit

    How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War

    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 40 min

    A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revengeIn 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. But in early 1975, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Pearl Harbor Ghosts

    The Legacy of December 7, 1941

    A landmark book published to rave reviews a decade ago, PearlHarborGhosts has now been updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history.Full of gripping drama and vibrant details, here is the intimate human story of the events surrounding that fateful day of December 7, 1941–the glamorous tropical city that seemed too beautiful to suffer ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Honorable Exit

    How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War

    **A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MILITARY BOOK CLUBA groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge**In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Campaign

    Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

    Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    With new research and previously unavailable interviews, The Last Campaign provides an intimate and absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America's deepest despairs—and most fiercely held dreams—and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened dramas of his times. After John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert Kennedy looked past ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus