History

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“a good general overview of the various combat arms, weapons, tactics, and innovations that combat has forced troops to develop as the 21st century battlefield becomes more lethal.”

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“for readers fascinated by the future of AI, this book is an eye-opening exploration of a revolution unfolding before our eyes.”

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The House on the Canal: The Story of the House That Hid Anne Frank is an unusual picture book because the main character is the building itself.

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"A thorough exploration of Vincent's journey to become an artist with a strong, distinctive vision."

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“Geroulanos examines how the most distant human past has been subjectively interpreted.

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“Deborah Dwork has fashioned an inspiring, wide-ranging, and gripping story of brave Americans living perilously among their refugee clients in dangerous wartime Europe and China.”

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“While histories may not provide the comfort of clear resolutions, Geary’s research, writing, and graphics assure us that we’ve experienced compelling narratives.”

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“British journalist Robert Verkaik tells the story of Market Garden’s failure in the context of one of the most remarkable and consequential spy stories of World War II.”

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Gettysburg: The Tide Turns . . . ‘brings in the people who were part of the story, large and small in importance, to tell it.’”

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“Jade Scott explains that, depending on your belief, Mary Queen of Scots was innocent, naïve, cunning, manipulative, deceitful, adulterous, tyrannical . . . and more.”

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“to ignore the missteps on America’s part that led to Ukraine’s tragedy would be to risk repeating the folly in the future.

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This book sets out to tell the story of “the female pioneers of Wall Street, its original She-Wolves, . . .

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Somewhere Toward Freedom is well-written, fast, and entertaining. It presents points of view often overlooked in Civil War studies.”

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“This work is far more than a beautifully illustrated coffee table book. The author has done 50 years of in-depth work on the subject and in other experts' research.”

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“Richard Pavlick can now be discussed in the same breath with other of America’s would-be presidential assassins . . .”

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In her Acknowledgements, author Amy Gamerman writes, “A story like this comes along once in a lifetime.” Readers can be grateful that Gamerman was there when this story came along, and that she—as

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“Lai’s story, Clifford writes, has ‘exposed the cruelty and barbarity of the Chinese communist system.’”

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Eva Payne’s invaluable study, Empire of Purity, sheds fresh light on a critical moment of U.S.

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"Ironic, isn't it, that people professing to be ‘Christians’ adamantly oppose the instructions and teachings of the person they claim to have accepted as their ‘personal savior.’"

The title, Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey, hints at a serious critique of coding and Big Tech, but what emerges is a sort of literary algorithm that fails to “compile”—that is, to tran

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"an exceptional job bringing this complicated and compelling history to light"

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“offers hours of entertainment in bites of a few minutes’ time. It will, no doubt, find a deserved place on many a bedside table . . .”

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“Oller has produced another work of dramatic reality and reading far superior to Hollywood myth and popular misunderstandings.”

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