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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps during the Vietnam War present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They served in the theater of combat, in the United States, and in countries allied with the U.S. They served in front line hospitals, hospital ships, large medical centers and small clinics. They speak of caring for casualties during a conflict filled with...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their role in that bloody conflict, but in Voices from the Grave, two leading figures from opposing sides reveal their involvement in bombings, shootings and killings on one condition:...
After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their role in that bloody conflict, but in Voices from the Grave, two leading figures from opposing sides reveal their involvement in bombings, shootings and killings on one condition:...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Catherine Wendell. In this transporting companion piece to the New York Times bestseller Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, Catherine, a beautiful
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A behind-the-scenes look at the organization that transformed Congress—and became a force for female empowerment.
In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY’s List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The rest is history: Since then, EMILY’s List has helped elect 23 women senators, 12 governors,...
In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY’s List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The rest is history: Since then, EMILY’s List has helped elect 23 women senators, 12 governors,...
Author
Publisher
Michael O'Mara
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer's Iliad to Aesop's Fables?
The Secret Library explores these intriguing morsels of lesser-known history, along with the familiar literary heavyweights we know and love. Bringing together an eclectic literary mix of novels, plays, travel books, science
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story.
At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's...
At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's...
10907) England and Germany
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- INTRODUCTION
-04- THE CHARACTER OF GERMANY
-05- THE GERMAN SYSTEM OF PREPARATION
-06- GERMANY AND ITALIAN FINANCE
-07- THE ANNEXATION MANIA
-08- GERMANY AND RUSSIA
-09- THE STATESMANSHIP OF THE ENTENTE
-10- TEUTON POLITICS
-11- A MACHIAVELLIAN TRICK BY WHICH RUSSIA'S HAND WAS FORCED
-12- GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN SCANDINAVIA
-13- GERMANY AND THE BALKANS
-14- THE RIVAL POLICIES
-15- PROBLEMS OF...
10908) Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The fascinating true story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defied their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold—“an effortless read and a fresh perspective on the American Revolution” (Shelf Awareness).
When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune,...
When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune,...
10909) Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Irish Politicians Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera
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Publisher
Gill & Macmillan
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were the two most charismatic leaders of the Irish revolution. This joint biography looks first at their very different upbringings and early careers. Both fought in the 1916 Easter Rising , although it is almost certain they did not meet during that tumultuous week. Their first encounter came when Collins had been released from jail after the rising but de Valera was still inside. Collins was one of those who
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A passionate, haunting and moving work that tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary style of soccer — "Total Football" — the world had ever seen.
When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyff,...
When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyff,...
Author
Publisher
Nebraska
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts "take out the trash" on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space?
The Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of U.S. astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and...
The Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of U.S. astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of...
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history. Female Tommies looks at the military role of women worldwide during the Great War and reveals the extraordinary women who served on the frontline. Through their diaries, letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions...
10915) Crescent and Iron Cross
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Synopsis currently unavailable.
10916) The Land Beyond: A Memoir
Author
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the
...10917) Mandela
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Martin Meredith's vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed as "an exemplary work of biography: instructive, illuminating,...
Martin Meredith's vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed as "an exemplary work of biography: instructive, illuminating,...
10918) At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Synopsis currently unavailable.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the major civil rights organizations of her day—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever-more daunting government countermoves....
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