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When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962.

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A poignant, multigenerational tale of the Swedish-American experience for two disparate Chicago families

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Few areas of human endeavor have produced more-or more colorful-terms than has the military. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have over centuries come up with words, phrases, and acronyms to express everything from raw emotion to complex technology. This book embodies a American attitude and enduringly American grace under pressure.

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Two classic books are brought together here.

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For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London. The SAS rescued 19 hostages with near-perfect military execution. This book looks at the siege and reveals the political background behind it.

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For fans of cold cases and true crime, the Great White Norths most famous uninvestigated death is finally laid to rest.

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Looks at the Kennedy assassination through the work of the researchers who refused to buy the official cover-up story that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin. This book explores: the alternative theories produced by critics of the official version; the landmarks in the Kennedy assassination research; and the disinformation produced on the subject.

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The subject of nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, the Kennedy assassination remains both the greatest whodunit of the post-World War Two era and the best route into recent American history....

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A fascinating documentary history of the fugitive slave case that captivated the nation-and inspired Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel Beloved.

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Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced In Why Did Europe Conquer the World, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the

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In May 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade had been in a leisurely pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for nearly a year after the defeat of the Rebels at Gettysburg. His tactics at Gettysburg were defensive and he was unsure that he was able to take the offensive against Lee.

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"William Walker's Wars details the little-remembered history of the American man who, with the help of a privately assembled army, installed himself as president of Nicaragua in 1856"--

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Provides important clues to the need to protect and maintain windmills, the continued survival of which allows an insight into the historic use of renewable energy, the development of engineering, and the processing of grain, for flour and bread, as well as other essential products.

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This text charts and accounts for the remarkable growth of the Roman Catholic Church in Wales between the formation of its Province of Wales in 1916 and the commencement of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. It goes on to examine reaction to the expansion, both from within and outside the church.

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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan describe, in their own words, the crimes of war they witnessed.

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