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History and Current Events December 2017
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Bethlehem : Biography of a Town
by Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems.
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| Christmas: A Biography by Judith FlandersIn most Western countries, Christmas is celebrated even by people for whom it's not a religious observance, and this isn't a recent development. In this accessible, richly detailed study, social historian Judith Flanders chronicles a "biography" of the holiday from the fourth century to the present day. |
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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
by Rebecca Fraser
With the aid of contemporary documents, the author brings to life an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower, in a book that looks at the First Thanksgiving and the Winslows conflicted relationship with the Wampanoag Indians.
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The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
by Masha Gessen
The award-winning Russian-American journalist traces how within the space of a generation, Russia has succumbed to a more virulent and resistant strain of autocracy as demonstrated by the experiences of four prototype individuals born at the once-presumed dawn of Russian democracy.
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The West Point history of the American Revolution
by United States Military Academy
This is the definitive concise military history of the Revolutionary War and is packed with essential images, exclusive tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach the art of war to West Point cadets.
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The 20th Century Through the Years
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The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers
by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration.
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| 1924: The Year That Made Hitler by Peter Ross RangeAdolf Hitler spent 1924 in prison after his conviction in the failed Beer Hall Putsch a major setback to his political ambitions. This is when he wrote his manifesto, Mein Kampf. In this detailed analysis, journalist Peter Range chronicles Hitler's evolution into a successful tyrant sheds new light on the man many consider the greatest monster in history. |
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World War II : The Definitive Visual History
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley
A 70th anniversary edition looks at this epic war from every angle, tracing the course of military, strategic and political events across the globe and documenting the experiences of combatants and civilians.
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