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This book relays the factual details of the Battle of Gettysburg that took place during the U.S. Civil War. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Confederate soldier, a Union soldier, and a woman merchant near the battle. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event....
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Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, race, socialism, and anarchism, all the while thrilling readers with trips to strange (and strangely familiar) new worlds. She is our exemplar of what fantastic literature can and should be about.
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From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway's Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler's Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to huge expeditions involving thousands of troops and other personnel, the headquarters of Combined Operations oversaw a wide variety of amphibious operations,...
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An RAF pilot recounts his vital role in the development of Britain's WWII air defense system in this fascinating military memoir.
During the 1930s, the UK had no realistic defense against fast-flying bomber planes. That was before radar technology proved capable of detecting an aircraft before it even reached British soil. This was shown in dramatic fashion during the Biggin Hill Experiment, when a young Arthur McDonald led three biplanes-all directed...
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Enquête et témoignages en milieux flamands.
Toute la Flandre, ainsi s'intitule l'une des plus belles œuvres d'Émile Verhaeren. Celle dont parle Luc Beyer de Ryke est divisée. Le Mouvement flamand est en quête d'une nation. La langue, à ses yeux, est « tout le peuple ». Pour réaliser son dessein, ses protagonistes collaboreront avec l'Allemagne impériale en 14-18, avec le Reich en 40-45.
À la différence de la Wallonie, o la collaboration...
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It's 1863, and the Civil War has torn apart the United States. For two years, the Confederacy and the Union have battled over slavery and states' rights. Will you: Fight for the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg? OR Serve with Stonewall Jackson as a Confederate soldier at the Battle of Chancellorsville? OR Try to survive the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a civilian?
25507) Redpatch
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Private Jonathan Woodrow is a young Indigenous soldier fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Thanks to his experience in hunting and wilderness survival, he quickly becomes one of the 1st Canadian Division's most feared trench raiders. But as the war and the fighting stretch on with no end in sight, Woodrow begins to realize that he will never go home again.
25508) Black Cats of Osan
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The story of the top-secret "Black Cats" who undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War.
Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth's atmosphere, the U-2's extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea. From there, the top-secret intelligence,...
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The first complete history of the nineteenth-century revolt, drawing on original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield.
Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque."
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Hugh Mercer was born in 1726 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland...Although trained as a doctor he would go on to serve in a military capacity as physician in Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1746 Jacobite rebellion. Following the decisive failure of the revolt at the battle of Culloden, Mercer fled his native country and sought refuge in the American colonies...His fighting days were only just beginning, seeing service in the Seven Years War and most famously in the...
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Hercules Mulligan was a master spy who answered to George Washington, being instrumental to saving the revolutionary leader from capture during the War of Independence.
The young Mulligan grew up at a time when agitation over Britain's taxation of the American colonies was rising; born in Ireland, he moved to the colonies at the age of six, and considered himself not merely a colonist, but a patriot of the impending nation. Able with dialogue and...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Tratado de Versalles, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto que rodea a la firma del Tratado de Versalles, al final de la I Guerra Mundial, ante una Alemania exhausta
• Profundizar en el papel de los principales personajes y países implicados en la firma del tratado, y en las...
25513) Un bout de papier
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Une jeune fille trouve une lettre chez sa mamie, avec qui elle aime passer du temps.
À sa vue, la grand-mère se souvient de sa propre enfance, une époque pendant laquelle ces bouts de papier sont devenus particulièrement précieux, car difficiles à trouver. Elle raconte…
Anne-Sophie Plat et Odette Barberousse posent délicatement des mots et des images sur la Première Guerre mondiale avec une approche singulière, tournée vers la solidarité...
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Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and honorary professor at the Collège de France. His many books include Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections; Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist; and Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political...
25515) Goodbye for Now
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A family torn apart by war.
As Europe is on the brink of war, two brothers fight very different battles, and both could lose everything...
While George has always been the brother to rush towards the action, fast becoming a boy-soldier when war breaks out, Joe thinks differently. Refusing to fight, Joe stays behind as a conscientious objector battling against the propaganda.
On the Western front, George soon discovers that war is not the great...
25516) Life of Oliver Cromwell
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Why was Oliver Cromwell selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time in a BBC poll? And, yet why was his corpse dug up, hung in chains and beheaded? Read on.
It's the case with every great man in history that we don't know how he became great. Steve Jobs. Churchill. Jesus. Muhammad. But, how? What shaped their character? What paved the way for them to rise into such a position that we still read about them centuries after their death?
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25517) Baghdad Central
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Baghdad Central is a noir debut novel set in Baghdad in September 2003. The US occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris and reality-denial abound, culminating in Washington hailing the mess a glorious "mission accomplished." Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted...
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This history of the Siege of Cawnpore and the massacre of British noncombatants in Colonial India reveals the human side of the struggle.
During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the strategic garrison at Cawnpore was surprised by an extended siege. Many British noncombatants were holed up in a makeshift entrenchment, suffering from thirst, starvation and disease, all while being bombarded with cannon balls and bullets. After nearly two months, the company...
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On December 7, 1941, Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, propelled the United States into World War II. Now readers can step back in time to learn what led up to the attack, how the tragic event unfolded, and the ways in which one infamous day changed America forever.
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The transition to modern war at sea began during the period of the Sino-Japanese War (1894—1895) and the Spanish-American War (1898) and was propelled forward rapidly by the advent of the dreadnought and the nearly continuous state of war that culminated in World War I. By 1922, most of the elements that would define sea power in the 20th century were in place.
Written by one of our foremost military historians, this volume acknowledges the complex...
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