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  • Racing for the Bomb

    The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age

    In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project’s remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was ... Leer más

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  • The Eagle in the Mirror

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    Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century.The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at ... Leer más

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  • Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red

    The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

    Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining & often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this trivia book from a bestselling author.English is filled with interesting phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:• Read between the Lines• Cat Got Your Tongue?• Put a Sock in It• Close, but No Cigar• ... Leer más

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  • Gunfighter Nation

    The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

    Series Libro 3 - Mythology of the American West
    National Book Award Finalist: The "impressive" conclusion to the "magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history" ( Film Quarterly)."The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites' conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ... Leer más

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  • The D-Day Atlas

    A Graphical Reconstruction of the Normandy Campaign

    de John Man ...
    An Illustrated Guide to One of the Greatest Events of World War IIThe Allied landing in German-occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the greatest amphibious operation in military history. In the months that followed, German forces, outnumbered and outgunned, fought one of the most tenacious and skillful defensive campaigns of the entire war. This magnificent graphical reconstruction details the ... Leer más

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  • Saving Washington's Army

    The Brilliant Last Stand of General John Glover at the Battle of Pell's Point, New York, October 18, 1776

    Learn the little-known history of the forgotten American Revolution Battle of Pell's Point and the heroism of John Glover.General William Howe and the mighty British-Hessian Army possessed the golden opportunity to cut-off, trap, and then destroy General George Washington’s Army before he could retreat north and escape from Harlem Heights, New York, when he landed his army at Pell’s Point north of ... Leer más

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  • Nazis after Hitler

    How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth

    The stories of thirty war criminals who escaped accountability, from a historian praised for his "well written, scrupulously researched" work ( The New York Times).This deeply researched book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust—some well-known, some obscure—who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were ... Leer más

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  • Curiosities Revealed

    Astonishing Facts for the Inquisitive Mind

    Hungry for a treasure trove of weird and wonderful facts beyond your wildest imagination? Then keep on reading...Did you know that trees collaborate, communicate, and engage in chemical warfare?Or that humans are better at smelling rain than sharks are at smelling blood?Or that Napoleon once fought a pack of tame rabbits... and lost?Sometimes, life gets boring. Your sense of wonder often gets lost ... Leer más

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  • Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781

    The Winning of American Independence

    Discover the little-known role Alexander Hamilton played in the decisive battle of the American Revolution: Yorktown.Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 is the first book in nearly two and a half centuries that has ever been devoted to the story of Alexander Hamilton’s key contributions in winning the most decisive victory the of the American Revolutionary war at Yorktown. ... Leer más

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  • The Times They Were a-Changin'

    1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn

    An award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics—for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964—or rather, the long 1964, from JFK’s assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965—was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical ... Leer más

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  • Above the Reich

    Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words

    Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a bookThey are voices lost to time. Beginning in the late 1970s, five veteran airmen sat for private interviews. Decades after the guns fell silent, they recounted in vivid detail the most dangerous missions that made the difference in the war. Ed Haydon dueled with the ... Leer más

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  • Official Secrets

    What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew

    Richard Breitman's Official Secrets is an important work based on newly declassified archives.As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes, about their murder of millions. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for its intelligence services had for years been intercepting, ... Leer más

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