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| The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
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Denis Avey with Rob Broomby.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780306821493. Daedalus Item Code: 29035 |
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| In this gripping and profoundly honest memoir, British World War II veteran Denis Avey recounts how he investigated for himself the horror stories about Jews in German prison camps. A POW in a labor ... (Read More)
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| March of Death: Sir John Moore's Retreat to Corunna, 1808–1809
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Christopher Summerville.
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| Publisher: Greenhill. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781853675645. Daedalus Item Code: 22803 |
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| Few episodes of British military history have been as dramatic as John Moore's retreat to Corunna in the bitter winter of 1808, when his small British force was outnumbered and outmaneuvered by ... (Read More)
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| Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall
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Michael G. Long. Derrick Bell, foreword.
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| Publisher: Amistad. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061985188. Daedalus Item Code: 23460 |
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| For 20 years prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a rebellious young attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) struggled tirelessly to combat racism, ... (Read More)
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| Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
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James McDermott.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300083804. Daedalus Item Code: 31847 |
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| (Keith Matthews Prize Winner)Sponsored by the Canadian Nautical Research Society, James McDermott’s biography of the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher is a highly entertaining account of the ... (Read More)
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| Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
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Tristram Hunt.
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| Publisher: Metropolitan. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780805092486. Daedalus Item Code: 21705 |
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| "'It all began over drinks,' [Tristram] Hunt writes of the forty-year collaboration between Karl Marx and his benefactor, ghostwriter, and best friend, Friedrich Engels. Engels's life was defined by ... (Read More)
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| The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
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V.S. Naipaul.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307270733. Daedalus Item Code: 31060 |
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| Like the Nobel Prize winner's other "travel" books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: V.S. Naipaul estimates the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, ... (Read More)
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| Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Asti Hustvedt.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393025606. Daedalus Item Code: 23885 |
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| 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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| Medicine Women: A Pictorial History of Women Healers
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Elisabeth Brooke.
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| Publisher: Quest. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780835607513. Daedalus Item Code: 31357 |
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| From Egyptian priestess-healers in the temples of Isis to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval Europe, from the midwives and nurses of later centuries to the physicians, researchers, and ... (Read More)
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