History

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"Scholars of Mayhem has more adventure than an Alister McLean novel even though it is nonfiction!"

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“Nagorski provides a compelling narrative of the war’s major events, developments, and personalities in 1941.”

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“a first-rate effort with enough detail to capture the history combined with a sharp pace and magnificent artwork.

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"Becoming Michelangelo successfully tells of an epic story of an artist through the experiences of the author/artist . . ."

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“Rarely has Europe produced anything finer in terms of piercing analysis or moral subtlety. . . .

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“The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation is not only an important book that reminds us of a historical moment we might have been

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"this short work's lively narrative tells a great adventure story that replaces popular misconceptions with the facts . . ."

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"Rigby tells an exciting tale with action coming in right away in the first chapters."

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“Detailed and comprehensive, Countdown to D-Day should be a standard work on what the Germans did and did not accomplish to meet ‘The Longest Day.’”

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“this engaging, well-written book is must reading for anyone who thinks climate change is just about the weather.”

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“Shelley Emling . . . brings Bernadotte to life. Written in an unpretentious style, it portrays close up the . . . most modest of men.

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"Einstein's War is a parallel biography of the great thinker and Arthur Stanley Eddington who used Einstein's work to heal the world scientific co

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“tells the forgotten story of this airborne operation, one of the more complex operations in World War II . . .”

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“a campaign that plays out like a John le Carré novel . . .”

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“an effective attempt to inform and enlighten readers on a topic of immense importance.

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“Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense reads like a blow-by-blow radio account of a prizefight between two heavyweights, although the arena is a courtroom, not a boxi

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LGBTQ communities in the US are gearing up for June gay pride parades, and this year will also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots that continue to symbolize the coming out

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“In The Guarded Gate, Okrent shows tremendous insight but also tremendous restraint, letting the alarming rise of racist eugenics unfold in its own time, and painstakingly document

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The British Are Coming is history written in a grand style and manner. It leaves one anxiously awaiting the next two volumes.”

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“Kershaw does a marvelous job of making these stories seem fresh and real to a new generation of readers.”

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“The story of Winston Churchill’s secretaries and literary assistants has been told before, but not in such a focused and complete manner as in Cita Stelzer’s book Working with Winston

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“Read Out East to remember what it was like: the sad, tragic, emotionally turbulent truth of first love. And then stay for the prose.

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“While Harriett Tubman had her underground railroad, Margaret Culbertson and her successor Donaldina Cameron, daughter of a Scottish sheep farmer, had their Presbyterian Mission House at 92

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“This book will be a hard pill to swallow for many in the United States and the West. It raises uncomfortable moral dilemmas and exposes Western weaknesses. . . .”

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