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History and Current Events December 2017
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American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
by Tamer Elnoury
A personal account by a Muslim-American FBI agent describes his experiences infiltrating and fighting North American terror cells, tracing his high-risk, undercover efforts to document and build cases against terrorist groups while bringing them down from the inside. Co-written by the best-selling co-author of No Easy Day.
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| A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons... by Caroline MooreheadAcclaimed historian Caroline Moorehead has already published two books, focused on France, about anti-fascist resistance in Europe. Now, she relates a compelling and vividly descriptive account of a wealthy and prominent Florentine family whose members openly resisted Benito Mussolini and his fascist movement in the 1920s. The Italian movement is much less well known than the resistance in other parts of Europe, and this moving and well-documented portrait of courage brings it to life. |
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The Halifax Explosion : Canada's Worst Disaster
by Ken Cuthbertson
An account of the Great Halifax explosion of 1917 when the freighter Mont-Blanc, carrying six million pounds of explosives, detonated, sending a shockwave that leveled the surrounding city.
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The way of the strangers : encounters with the Islamic State
by Graeme Wood
The writer of The Atlantic's cover story, "What ISIS Really Wants," presents an intimate and unsettling examination of the motivations that drive the men and women of the Islamic State, sharing the stories of individual followers against a backdrop of the violent events of today. Includes two charts.
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