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The story of a Marine wounded on hill 881 in Vietnam during the hill fight siege of April 1967.

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Arlyne Brickman dated the wiseguys but she was wiser than them all

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Mohandas K Gandhi, is a revered figure for his nonviolent action to free India from British rule. This book follows Gandhi from his family's home, via sojourn in England to prepare for a law career, to his growth from a timid new barrister in South Africa to India's foremost negotiator with the British power structure.

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When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'.

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From fighting an unjust school suspension in middle school to becoming the youngest elected neighborhood group president in Minneapolis. Tiger Worku recounts his remarkable life story of stoicism and growth in the midst of America's darkest days.

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Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, this book displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. It is written for the general public curious about China and for the student beginning to study its rich cultural heritage.

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Drawing on the couple's love letters and Mary Anne's own formidable archives, Daisy Hay reveals the heady mix of romance and power that fuelled their influence - and chronicles how the Disraelis crafted their unconventional marriage into an enduring love story.

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In less than a decade Frank Murphy rose from Mayor of depression-torn Detroit to Governor General and High Commissioner of the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, Attorney General of the United States, and one of the most libertarian Supreme Court Justices in American history. Professor Howard bases his biography of this colorful Irish New Dealer ex

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Alice Keppel was a manipulative woman, whose relationship with Edward VII placed her at the centre of high society. Her daughter, Violet, was fascinated with her mother's power. Yet when she fell in love with Vita Sackville-West, she threatened to break all the moral rules of her mothers world.

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Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.

Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer.

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Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service.

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"Only God, who appointed me, will remove me - not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!" - Robert Mugabe

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Ron Reagan celebrates the centenary of his father's birth by visiting the towns that shaped him to share both his own memories and a uniquely privileged portrait of a young "Dutch" Reagan.

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Spanning pre-deployment to combat zone, World War I to Vietnam, boredom to blood lust, roadside bombs to open mic nights, this book shows what it means to be a soldier and a human being.

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In 1920, a baby girl was born at Table Rock Ranch in northern California. In My Little Shasta Valley, she tells the story of growing up north of Mount Shasta and the adventures she had as she, just like her mother and grandmother before her, fell in love with the land, the people, and the animals that inhabit it.

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Describes the author's own experience to launch a strong defense of America and American values at a time when he fears that his fellow conservatives are in danger of following the path of the New Left into contempt for their native land.

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This book is packed with humorous anecdotes that counter the more serious detail of the General's role in the military through to his retirement in July 2005. He writes colourfully of his early years and we follow him from raw recruit to Vietnam.