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In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season- the epic story of the 1950 holiday season in Korea, when American troops faced extreme cold, a determined enemy, and long odds. A Military Book Club main selection

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Offers a comprehensive chronological reference for the entire Roman state and its neighbours. This work considers key historiographical questions and concerns of the period. It considers the importance of questioning sources, most notably Livy, and what can be said with any authority.

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Books about the Civil War are as numerous as the war's casualties. This one is different. A Civil War Treasury goes beyond the battle histories and memoirs to offer a unique, intimate, and informative portrayal of this nation's greatest catastrophe, the War Between the States.

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Cautious and rational, the Board reached the correct conclusion that the organization was a Communist Party front.

Indeed, in its fidelity to American communism, the ACPFB pursued a political agenda that often violated its stated mandate.

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Profiles the World War II veterans known as the "Band of Brothers" through notes, journals, letters, photographs, and the author's interviews with survivors.

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This work indexes slaves by where they lived (as opposed to where they were interviewed), as well as by their master's name, their age, and the interviewer.

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Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this 25th anniversary edition offers a concise overview of the broad and complex history of Byzantium.

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* A short history of the world from 1500 to the present.

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In this revised version of his dissertation (at the U. of Toronto), Kochavi analyzes the motives and mindset behind John F. Kennedy's policy in China, the larger history of Chinese-American relations, and the Kennedy policy as an example of conflict management. The legacy of Eisenhower and policy ag

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The dramatic and compelling rescue of the Danish Jews from the hands of the Nazis, told through firsthand accounts and personal stories

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America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust This book focuses on the central question of how a stable international system came into being during the Cold War period.

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An illuminating social and political history describes how mass consumption and the pursuit of prosperity transformed American life during the second half of the 20th century, detailing the rise of political activism through the civil rights and consumer movements and more.

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A burgeoning city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. In 1906 the dreams of this city, came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake. This story delves beneath the surface of the earth, and explains why the world moves as it does. It portrays the lives of the people who suffered and survived the devastation.

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This volume explores the span of human history-and plenty of prehistory-searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof.

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The encyclopedia that comes after the list of entries contains brief, alphabetically arranged articles for performers, military personnel, theologians, composers, critics, educators, explorers, historians, industrialists, inventors, authors, artists, physicians, scientists, sculptors, and numerous events and creative works.