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A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II
Richard Snow.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416591108.  Daedalus Item Code: 20930
 
Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, the German U-boat campaign was "the only thing that ever really frightened me ... this shapeless, measureless peril, ... (Read More)
 
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Asti Hustvedt.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393025606.  Daedalus Item Code: 23885
 
Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève were each admitted to the hysteria ward of the Salpêtrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. ... (Read More)
 
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Medieval Sieges and Siegecraft
Geoffrey Hindley.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781602396333.  Daedalus Item Code: 22417
 
In this vivid reconstruction of siege warfare in the medieval world, with detailed descriptions of weapons and tactics, Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle. The ... (Read More)
 
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A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution
Emma Christopher.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780199782550.  Daedalus Item Code: 30724
 
From the Australian historian who gave us Slave Trade Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, this story begins with the American War of Independence, until which many British convicts were shipped ... (Read More)
 
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Paul French.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143123361.  Daedalus Item Code: 38560
 
Peking in 1937 was a vortex of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition, even as the Japanese prepared to invade. The discovery of 20-year-old Pamela Werner's mutilated ... (Read More)
 
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Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack
Tom Nagorski.
Publisher: Hyperion.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781401308711.  Daedalus Item Code: 30057
 
On September 17, 1940, the British liner SS City of Benares was sailing for Canada with 90 children and hundreds of other war refugees on board, hoping to reach safer shores; instead, they ... (Read More)
 
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A Mohave War Reminiscence 1854–1880
A.L. Kroeber & C.B. Kroeber.
Publisher: Dover.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780486281636.  Daedalus Item Code: 04335
 
Almost unknown before the mid-19th century, the Mohave were an obscure tribe living in what is today southern California, where they hunted, farmed, and had a reputation for waging aggressive ... (Read More)
 
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Robert M. Edsel & Brett Witter.
Publisher: Center Street/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781599951492.  Daedalus Item Code: 31660
 
From 1943 to 1951, 350 men and women from 13 Allied nations served in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces—the first and most ambitious effort in history ... (Read More)
 
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Morning of Fire: John Kendrick's Daring American Odyssey in the Pacific
Scott Ridley.
Publisher: Morrow.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061700125.  Daedalus Item Code: 22331
 
Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt, so a diplomatic mission was conceived to create trade agreements with the Far East and insure new national revenue. ... (Read More)
 
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Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Michael O'Brien.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780374215811.  Daedalus Item Code: 21709
 
Early in 1815, Louisa Adams left Saint Petersburg in a Russian carriage on a difficult journey—through eastern Europe and Prussia, and into a France experiencing the tumultuous events surrounding ... (Read More)
 
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Nazis and the Occult: The Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich
Paul Roland.
Publisher: Arcturus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781848588387.  Daedalus Item Code: 24030
 
Why did the country that produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant, and Hegel allow itself to be led to self-destruction by a ragged collective of criminals, misfits, sadists, and ... (Read More)
 
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New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham
Steven H. Jaffe.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465036424.  Daedalus Item Code: 23781
 
Beginning with an Indian attack on one of Henry Hudson's crewmen—who in 1609 became the first recorded fatality of an act of war in the region's history—historian Steven H. Jaffe offers an ... (Read More)
 
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