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Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History's Intriguing ... - Google Books
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Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History's Intriguing Questions offers uniquely compelling and educational examinations of pivotal events and puzzling phenomena, from the earliest evidence of human activity to controversial events of…
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When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences - Eric Alterman - Google Books
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At a time when most Americans assume that their presidents lie to them, no book could be more essential than bestselling author Eric Alterman’s devastating analysis of the costs of executive duplicity. One of the best-known left-of-center…
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Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 - Antony Beevor - Google Books
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'RECOUNTS, IN HARROWING DETAIL AND WITH FORMIDABLE SKILL, THE BRUTAL DEATH-THROES OF HITLER'S REICH AT THE HANDS OF THE RAMPAGING RED ARMY' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'Makes us feel the chaos and the fear as if every drop of blood was…
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Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 - Jeff Lipkes - Google Books
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"People screamed, cried, and groaned. Above the tumult I could distinguish the voices of small children. All this time the soldiers were singing. . . . Sometime after the first salvo, there was another round of fire and, once again, I was not hit. After…
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Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games ... - Tracy Fullerton - Google Books
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Create the Digital Games You Love to Play Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic expertise using Game Design Workshop, Third Edition. Author Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative…
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Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity - Gerd Ludemann - Google Books
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According to the commonly held view, early Christianity was a time of great harmony, and heresy emerged only at a later stage. To the contrary, Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century was…
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The Righteous of Switzerland: Heroes of the Holocaust - Meir Wagner, Moshe Meisels - Google Books
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For years, Americans have been told about the complicity of Swiss bankers with the Nazi war machine. But this is only part of the story. During World War II, barve Swiss citizen risked danger and death because they refused to remain neutral in the face of…
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George Best and 21 Others - Colin Shindler - Google Books
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In the spring of 1964 more than 50,000 people turned out to watch the two-legged semi-final of the FA Youth Cup between Manchester City and Manchester United. It was a time of great hope and excitement: a new era was to be ushered in, with the virtues of…
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Hitler's Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life - Timothy W. Ryback - Google Books
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He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. For the first time,…
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Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888 - John C. G. Röhl - Google Books
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This rich and compelling volume describes the life of Kaiser Wilhelm II from his birth in 1859 to his accession to the Prusso-German throne in 1888, a story so extraordinary that it will fascinate anyone interested in the psychology and the throng of…