History

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New Women of Empire is never less than a fascinating read, and many of these chapter case studies could well be expanded for fuller publication.”

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“I am easily enchanted when an odd idea or phrase looms on a page, often showing an invisible link,” writes Annie Proulx in Fen, Bog and Swamp.

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“distills crucially important information and analysis about the many U.S. wars after WWII. It is a critical responsibility to know the real history.”

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“H. W. Brand in The Last Campaign tells an interesting tale, an informative page turner for the general reader.”

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“war sometimes does strange things even to those ideals a nation purports to cherish the most.

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“The book is a joy to read. You can dip in anywhere and swim about in Dylan’s brain.”

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“This is a magnificent book for anyone interested in the history of these great ships.”

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“Like a series of Russian nesting dolls, this book is about a specific painter within a specific culture within the history of how that culture has been seen and described through the centu

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“Roberts tells an epic tale through these 31 stories, the evolution of a great city developed by people who wrote history with their lives.”

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“Any student of military history will find this an invaluable book on the challenges of higher command and grand strategy.

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Health Communism serves as a wake-up call for the dehumanization of healthcare delivery.”

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This is a fundamental book for understanding one of the most salient issues roiling relations between China, its neighbors to the south and east, and the United States.

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The clash over history is heating up as pundits and politicians across the political spectrum seek to shape and interpret history to suit their purposes and narrative.

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There have been a number of recent books written on the Cuban Missile crisis as this most dangerous moment of the Cold War reemerges in importance as a new war engulfs Europe and the specter of nuc

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“Freedland enthusiastically makes his informal retelling of this story of a daring escape from a horror on an unimaginable scale a particular tale of high adventure.”

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“Cleveland’s personal history offered no foreshadowing of future greatness.

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“A magnificent job of bringing this little-known history into the full glorious light where it belongs.”

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By Hands Now Known makes an authoritative argument for reparations and restitution for the families and communities whose lives were destroyed by Jim Crow crimes, and for whom not

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“David McCullough’s Brave Companions is a welcome reminder of how history should be written.”

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“Beevor, who has written acclaimed books about the Second World War, presents a richly detailed account of the momentous four years of Russian history between 1917 and 1921.”

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The Mosquito Bowl is not just a book about war. It is, instead, about the men who fought that war.

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The spirit of the title hints at the message: A British prosecutor at Nuremberg, Sir Hartley Shawcross, encouraged the judges to imagine that all of humanity stood before them, crying out, “These a

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“Orlando Figes’ new book The Story of Russia could not be more timely or informative.”

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“The Wise Gals who started at the CIA paved the way for the many women coming after them and still provide an inspiring model.

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During WWII the Germans had about 1,000 prisoner of war camps, holding 170,000 British military alone. The number of stories that could be told is enormous.

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