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On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the sixty-eighth floor. Benfante,...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el mariscal Pétain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir el misterio que rodea a Pétain, que gana la batalla de Verdún gracias a sus tácticas militares innovadoras, pero que firma un armisticio con Hitler que conduce al régimen de Vichy
• Conocer todos los acontecimientos mayores en Francia,...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le maréchal Pétain en moins d'une heure!
L'histoire de France est jalonnée de grands personnages qui ont façonné son destin. Philippe Pétain, quoi qu'on en dise, est l'un d'eux. Adulé par ses soldats pour sa clairvoyance tactique, particulièrement lors de la bataille de Verdun, ou abhorré par ses concitoyens pour l'autoritarisme antisémite du régime de Vichy, le maréchal Pétain continue...
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The true life of Crazy Horse is plagued with questions. He did not leave any letters or diaries nor are there any records of speeches he made. Most notably, it is still unclear whether his death was an accident or a murder. Nevertheless, Crazy Horse is considered a gripping symbol of freedom, dignity, and the American West. He was the unfathomable leader for the Lakota tribe and was looked upon for protection by his people. But as whites invaded the...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Sadam Husein, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
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• Analizar la vida de Sadam Husein, desde que nace en el seno de una familia pobre hasta su ascenso al poder y su muerte, pasando por su trayectoria en el Partido Baaz y por su activo papel en este, participando en diversos complots para derrocar a líderes...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Saddam Hussein in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein. Following a series of bloody coups, Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq in 1979 and quickly established an authoritarian dictatorship that endured for over twenty years. His leadership was characterised by a series of wars, including...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of John F. Kennedy in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of John F. Kennedy. At a time when the Cold War was in full swing and the threat of Communism loomed dangerously over the Western world, a man full of youth and energy and the promise of renew al was elected to the White House. Kennedy's presidency would see the start of the...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Saddam Hussein en moins d'une heure !
Arrivé au faîte du pouvoir malgré ses origines précaires, Saddam Hussein mène l'Irak d'une main de fer pendant une vingtaine d'années. S'il reçoit au début de son règne l'appui du monde occidental afin de mettre un terme à la révolution islamique d'Iran, l'homme fort du Moyen-Orient verra très vite ses alliés se retourner contre lui. C'est que le raïs...
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Open Road Media
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[2016]
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An enthralling and richly detailed biography of two gifted military commanders who changed the course of American history. Their names are forever linked in the history of the Civil War, but Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant could not have been more dissimilar. Lee came from a world of Southern gentility and aristocratic privilege while Grant had coarser, more common roots in the Midwest. As a young officer trained in the classic mold, Lee graduated...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
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[2014]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
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In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island....
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The year was 1932. At age fourteen Robert Beir's journey through life changed irrevocably when a classmate called him a "dirty Jew." Suddenly Beir encountered the belligerent poison of anti-Semitism. The safe confines of his upbringing had been violated. The pain that he felt at that moment was far more hurtful than any blow. Its memory would last a lifetime.
Beir's experiences with anti-Semitism served as a microcosm for the anti-Semitism among...
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The urgent need to honor the 56 Signers of The Declaration of Independence came to Douglas MacKinnon, fittingly enough, on the 4th of July. While doing research for a column meant to remind the American people of that date's critical importance, he came across example after example of those from the Left and the Far-Left-be they in the mainstream media, activists, or anarchists, calling for not only the "canceling" of the 4th of July, but the continued...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the great minds of the mid-nineteenth century. His thoughts and views led the Transcendentalist movement, and his writings-especially Self-Reliance-taught people to "trust thyself" and see how their self-worth was more important than anything else.
Emerson on Self-Reliance is a wonderful collection of writings that will teach not only how to have a better perception of the world, but also how you are capable of having...
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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
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2010.
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A fascinating exploration of early to mid-twentieth-century politics as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat.
History seems to repeat itself. With ongoing wars abroad and the collapse of financial institutions at home, Americans rely on President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to bring about positive change. When the US stock market collapsed in 1928 and World War II broke out, the nation turned to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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"A welcome gift ... Highlighting Lenin's flexibility and cultivation of collective leadership, Le Blanc brings out the practical activism and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet" Jodi Dean, author of Comrade
"Crackling with intellectual life" Lars T. Lih, author of Lenin Rediscovered
"A wonderful sketch of Lenin's life and times ... Perhaps the best introduction available in English" Michael...
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"Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES" "Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust" Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His many books include "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide...
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Fordham University Press
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[2020]
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"An original blend of autobiography and ethnography that re-examines violence and memory from the perspective of a child of Korean War survivors. This "deeply moving" narrative (Heonik Kwon, author of After the Korean War ) showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. With an unwavering commitment to a child's perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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2015.
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The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
In early 2013, Chris and Taya Kyle's decade-long marriage had survived years of war that took Chris, a U.S. Navy SEAL, away for agonizingly long stretches while he put his life on the line in many major battles of the Iraq War. After struggling to readjust to life...
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"A court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors reveals the shocking truth of their torture and murder in this monumental memoir. Vivien Spitz reported on the Nuremberg trials for the U.S. War Department from 1946 to 1948. In Doctors from Hell , she vividly describes her experiences both in and out of the courtroom. A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, this important memoir includes trial transcripts as well...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Stalin, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir la vida de Stalin y el contexto en el que vivió, marcado por las revoluciones y el desarrollo de las ideas socialistas en Rusia
• Identificar los momentos clave para la llegada al poder de Stalin y el establecimiento de su dictadura, observando...
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