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Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition - Bruce Henderson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=f66vNNB4gYkC&pg=PA303#v=onepage
It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War—America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and…
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Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies - Google Books
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The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. They cover a period from June 1917, when Johan van Ophuijsen presented his paper on the masculinity complex in women to the…
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History of My Life - Giacomo Casanova - Google Books
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Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from the seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a…
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The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and ... - Arthur J. Dommen - Google Books
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This book describes how the Indochinese - Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians - have dealt with the French and the Americans since 1859. It is a story of Nationalism, Communism, and war in Indochina from the middle of the 19th century to the present. This is…
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Who's Who in the Ancient Near East - Gwendolyn Leick - Google Books
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What do we know of the real Nebuchadnezzar? Was there an historical precedent for the mythical Gilgamesh? Who were the Hittites? When did Isaiah preach? How did Jezebel get her reputation?These and many more questions are answered in this fascinating…
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Eisenhower: A Life - Paul Johnson - Google Books
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Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower,…
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Strategic Assessment in War - Scott Sigmund Gartner - Google Books
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How do military organizations assess strategic policy in war? In this book Scott Gartner develops a theory to explain how military and government leaders evaluate wartime performance, how much they change strategies in response to this evaluation, and why…
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Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled Creative Biographies - Herbert Marshall - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=vk9JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&dq=Soviet-Film%2BWolga#v=onepage
Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. To Eisenstein we owe such films as Battleship Potemkin and October; to Pudovkin Mother and The End of St…
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The Unknown Stalin - Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev - Google Books
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Josef Stalin remains one of the greatest enigmas of modern history. Unflinching, impenetrable, inhuman in his cruelty, bathed in misery himself, he represents to many a very paradigm of evil - perhaps, in his icy rationalism, even more so than Hitler…
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The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy - Bernard Avishai - Google Books
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The subject of intense controversy when it was first published in 1985, The Tragedy of Zionism provides illuminating insight into the history behind the headlines. Now revised, this poignant chronicle addresses timely and compelling questions: could Israel…