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History and Current Events November 2017
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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine
by Anne Applebaum
Draws on previously sealed records to prove that Joseph Stalin deliberately created his agricultural collectivization project to commit genocidal acts against the Ukrainians, citing the millions of peasants who died from starvation between 1931 and 1933 to solve a Russian political problem. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
In 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Indian Nation possessed immense wealth because their land contained large petroleum reserves. In Killers of the Flower Moon, New Yorker staff writer David Grann portrays a series of murders on the reservation. Local authorities couldn't solve the crimes, but an investigation by the relatively new FBI (led by the young J. Edgar Hoover) identified and charged the killers, whose primary motivation was greed. In this thoroughly researched history, Grann also reveals conspiracy and corruption beyond what the FBI discovered. Whether you're interested in Native American history or fascinated by true crime stories, check out this thrilling narrative, complete with photographs.
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Orders to kill : the Putin regime and political murder
by Amy W. Knight
A detailed account of the practice of covert assassination in Russian politics in the years since Putin's ascendance draws on a wealth of circumstantial evidence to document the regime-benefiting deaths of innumerable journalists, activists and political opponents.
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The home that was our country : a memoir of Syria
by Alia Malek
A senior staff writer at Al Jazeera America describes what life was like in her family’s home in Damascus through various political shifts and describes how the Arab Spring allowed her to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment, lost to them since 1970.
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A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow.
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Cold Comfort : Growing Up Cold War
by Gil McElroy
When his father died, award-winning poet Gil McElroy was given a box of photographs that documented his father's work on the Canadian military's northern Distant Early Warning Line in the 1950s. Image by image, McElroy attempts to come to terms with the mysterious photographer - a man better understood by his military compatriots than by his own family - and in so doing begins to reckon with his own experience growing up as an itinerant military brat."
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