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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mark Kurzem
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Plume; Reprint edition (2008, Aug 26th).
Pages: 432
"Part mystery, part memory puzzle, it is written in the polished style of a good thriller, and it is spellbinding." —Dinitia Smith, The New York Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. more
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Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: David King
Format: Deckle Edge]
Publisher: Crown (2011, Sep 27th).
Pages: 432
"One of history's most macabre bouts of serial killing . . . David King, the author of Vienna 1814, has more than just fresh eyes and imaginative speculation to power his revisiting of this long-forgotten true crime."—New York Times "If you like true crime, put this book at the top of your reading list. . . . An exceptional piece of crime reporting backed by a gut-wrenching narrative that is masterful, haunting, and an incredible literary achievement."—King Features Syndicate"Unprecedented detail . . . The detail with which King explores the story is aided by the fact that not only did he have access to trial materials, including a stenographic record no one thought existed, but also the complete police dossier, which had been classified since the investigation began. more
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mark Bowden
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press; Reissue edition (2010, Apr 13th).
Pages: 400
Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a strikingly detailed account of the 1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded. This early foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Bowden does not spend much time considering the context; instead he provides a moment-by-moment chronicle of what happened in the air and on the ground. His gritty narrative tells of how Rangers and elite Delta Force troops embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid only to find themselves surrounded in a hostile African city. Their high-tech MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had been shot down and a number of other miscues left them trapped through the night. more
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Mein Kampf
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Adolf Hitler
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1998, Sep 15th).
Pages: 720
In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler was jailed for the abortive Munich Beer Hall putsch along with men willing and able to assist him with his writing. With the help of these collaborators, chief among them Rudolf Hess, the pamphlet became a book. Settling Accounts became Mein Kampf, an unparalleled example of muddled economics and history, appalling bigotry, and an intense self-glorification of Adolf Hitler as the true founder and builder of the National Socialist movement. more
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The Guns of August
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1994, Mar 8th).
Pages: 544
"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten. more
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Vine Deloria Jr.
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (2000, Jan 1st).
Pages: 278
In his new preface to this quality paperback edition, the author observes, 'The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again.' Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest. more
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Matthew Algeo
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 4th edition (2009, May 1st).
Pages: 272
On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he’d just received to write his memoirs. Hopefully incognito. In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman’s plan to blend in went wonderfully awry. Fellow diners, bellhops, cabbies, squealing teenagers at a Future Homemakers of America convention, and one very by-the-book Pennsylvania state trooper--all unknowingly conspired to blow his cover. more
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Cullen Murphy
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; None edition (2012, Jan 17th).
Pages: 320
“The Inquisition is a dark mark in the history of the Catholic Church. But it was not the first inquisition nor the last, as Cullen Murphy shows in this far-ranging, informed, and (dare one say?) witty account of its reach down to our own time, in worldly affairs more than ecclesiastical ones.” — Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, former editor, CommonwealThe Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826 — the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.God’s Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. more
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