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The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Eugène-Francois Vidocq, Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
James Morton.
Publisher: Overlook.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781590206386.  Daedalus Item Code: 32153
 
Born in France in 1775, Eugène-François Vidocq was, while still in his youth, a notorious womanizer and criminal, yet he later became a police officer, employing a gang of ex-convicts as his ... (Read More)
 
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The First of Men: A Life of George Washington
John E. Ferling.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780195398670.  Daedalus Item Code: 30739
 
Written by one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary War era, this is an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. John ... (Read More)
 
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First Family: Abigail and John Adams
Joseph J. Ellis.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307269621.  Daedalus Item Code: 09328
 
(First Edition, Signed Bookplate) The author of His Excellency, the Pulitzer Prize winner Founding Brothers, and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx here brings ... (Read More)
 
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The Flight of Rudolf Hess: Myths and Reality
Roy Conyers Nesbit & Georges van Acker.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780750947572.  Daedalus Item Code: 30438
 
The story of Rudolf Hess has been the subject of more speculation than any other Nazi leader except Adolf Hitler. Hess's flight from Augsburg to Scotland in May 1941, purportedly in an attempt to ... (Read More)
 
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindberg and the Rise of American Aviation
Thomas Kessner.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195320190.  Daedalus Item Code: 30740
 
In May 1927 an unassuming 25-year-old airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh stunned the world by making the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from New York to Paris—a spectacular feat of individual ... (Read More)
 
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Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia
Bernd Roeck.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300095159.  Daedalus Item Code: 31851
 
By the end of the 19th century, Florence hosted a vibrant community of creative expatriates; such writers as Wilde, Rilke, and Mann, and painters like Degas and Klee, flocked there to revel in the ... (Read More)
 
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Flying for Freedom: The Allied Air Forces in the RAF 1939–45
Alan Brown.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752459981.  Daedalus Item Code: 30439
 
After the evacuation of the British army at Dunkirk in May 1940, Britain's primary weapon of defense in World War II was her air force. The exploits of the RAF's bomber crews and fighter pilots ... (Read More)
 
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For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions
James R. Gaines.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393061383.  Daedalus Item Code: 13613
 
"In this absorbing and learned study, [James] Gaines chronicles the friendship of two great generals along with the American and French Revolutions, bringing great insight to both. He questions the ... (Read More)
 
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For Them the War Was Not Over: The Royal Navy in Russia 1918–1920
Michael Wilson.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752446998.  Daedalus Item Code: 23154
 
As the guns fell silent on the Western front of World War I on November 11, 1918, civil war in Russia blazed on. The White Russian army supporting the Tsar was still fighting the Bolsheviks, ... (Read More)
 
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The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal
Charles Van Onselen.
Publisher: Walker & Company.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802716415.  Daedalus Item Code: 03045
 
"Award-winning South African historian [Charles] Van Onselen has crafted a riveting narrative portraying the life and crimes of Joseph Silver (1868–1918), a violent man whose story is almost too ... (Read More)
 
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802716989.  Daedalus Item Code: 30049
 
In a desperate economic era, FDR and his advisers had to furiously improvise to get millions of unemployed people back to work. For writers, actors, and artists, they created the Federal Theater ... (Read More)
 
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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
John Stauffer.
Publisher: Twelve.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780446580090.  Daedalus Item Code: 30050
 
The author of The Black Hearts of Men, a co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and runner-up for the Lincoln prize, Harvard literature professor John Stauffer offers this ... (Read More)
 
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