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A Brief History of the Third Reich
Martyn Whittock.
Publisher: Robinson.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781849012997.  Daedalus Item Code: 21983
 
Beginning in the aftermath of World War I and the punitive Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Martyn Whittock's history is an account of men who rose to the fore during ... (Read More)
 
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A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Richard Rayner.
Publisher: Doubleday.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780385509701.  Daedalus Item Code: 13675
 
"In the early 1980s, just before Los Angeles put on its second Olympic Games, British journalist Richard Rayner came here and fell reluctantly, madly in love with this city. Los Angeles—from which I ... (Read More)
 
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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
Carol Berkin.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780156028721.  Daedalus Item Code: 31707
 
"For the newly independent United States, the years just after the Revolution were the best of times and the worst of times: though the states celebrated their newfound freedom, they did not have a ... (Read More)
 
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British History for Dummies: 3rd Edition
Sean Lang.
Publisher: Wiley.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780470978191.  Daedalus Item Code: 31625
 
Treason, plague, two world wars—and that's just for starters—British history is a roller coaster ride of rip-roaring stories, power-mad kings, executions, invasions, empire building, and forbidden ... (Read More)
 
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Bully!: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt
Rick Marschall.
Publisher: Regnery History.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781596981546.  Daedalus Item Code: 31351
 
Adored in everything from his much-caricatured teeth and glasses to his almost childlike exuberance and boundless energy, as well as his astounding achievements, Theodore Roosevelt captivated America ... (Read More)
 
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Adam Hochschild.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780618619078.  Daedalus Item Code: 22052
 
(2005 National Book Award Finalist) "Adam Hochschild's wonderful, vivid new Bury the Chains argues, in part, that the British abolition movement of the late 1700s pioneered the ... (Read More)
 
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By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
P.J. Capelotti.
Publisher: Rutgers.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780813526331.  Daedalus Item Code: 30200
 
Archaeologist and social science lecturer P.J. Capelotti here interprets the media reports and the physical remains of two particularly reckless attempts to reach the North Pole by air. Swedish ... (Read More)
 
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Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America
Beth B. Cohen.
Publisher: Rutgers.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780813539539.  Daedalus Item Code: 30201
 
Following the end of World War II, it was widely reported in America that Jewish refugees found lives filled with opportunity and happiness. However, for most of the 140,000 Jewish Displaced ... (Read More)
 
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Cavalry of the Clouds: Air War Over Europe 1914–1918
John Sweetman.
Publisher: Spellmount.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780752455037.  Daedalus Item Code: 23148
 
In 1917, David Lloyd George declared that airmen in World War I were "the cavalry of the clouds ... the knighthood of this war." This romantic image was fostered after the war by writers of adventure ... (Read More)
 
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Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life
Richard Cohen.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781400068753.  Daedalus Item Code: 20565
 
In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, swordsman and publisher Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life in this erudite, ... (Read More)
 
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
Madhusree Mukerjee.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465002016.  Daedalus Item Code: 21878
 
As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals in this account of shocking rapacity, even as Winston Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to ... (Read More)
 
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The Churchills: In Love and War
Mary S. Lovell.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393062304.  Daedalus Item Code: 23875
 
The biographer of Beryl Markham and the Mitford sisters here presents the epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill. The first Duke of ... (Read More)
 
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