| 211. Gulag : A History | |
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by: ANNE APPLEBAUM List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.87 You Save: $5.08 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum is the first compresive account of the Soviet system of forced labor and random terror. Now that the shroud of secrecy and propaganda is lifted, the reality of twentieth century Soviet Union, and especially the period of Stalin's rule, is of a catastrophically malfunctioning totalitarian state. At times the horror of the Gulag is almost unfathomable. Applebaum's research here is clearly very thorough. She makes ample use of survivor memoirs, recently opened Soviet ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 212. The Middle East | |
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by: Bernard Lewis List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $4.80 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Lewis provides a solid overview of the Middle East. He's gives us a feeling for the incredible flux this area has seen over the past 2000 years. Lewis has a good eye for evocative detail, using an quotidian coffeehouse example at the outset to delineate elements of culture which he then uses as a springboard for Middle Eastern history. Unlike many one-volume histories, Lewis then gives an excellent background, starting in pre-Christian antiquity and the Persian empire and continuing during the ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 213. We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam | |
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by: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This outstanding account of the first major battle between American and North Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War tells in gut-wrenching, eye-watering detail what close combat is all about. Authors Hal Moore and Joseph Galloway (Moore commanded the 1st Sqdn., 7th Cav., one of the two squadrons involved; Galloway was a journalist on the ground with Moore) have prepared a carefully researched, well documented account of U.S. and North Vietnamese actions at Ia Drang Valley in the fall of 1965. Importantly, they ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 214. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) | |
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by: Harriet A. Jacobs Amazon.com's Price: $3.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I have read a lot of the past reviews and I consider this story as part of the American narrative that can't be dismissed. Yes, it sounds unbelivable when we look at the lives that we lead today but this was reality to so many people in the past. It takes the life of a black woman living in slavery and presents in interesting story that reads a lot like fiction. It is so easy to foget that it was real. Traditionaly women have been left out of history, especially black women, slave women... This is an unseen element ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 215. Dark Descent | |
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by: Kevin F. McMurray List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland is a book for everyone! I am definitely not a member of the diving community, though if I were I would love the book as a guide to equipment and techniques. I am, in fact, alternately revolted and fascinated by extreme sports and the people who practice them, a combination of feelings that compels me to seek understanding in books like Dark Descent. This page-turner of a book goes a long way towards providing enlightenment and does it in a most interesting ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 216. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) | |
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by: Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James Cargas, Bonny V. Fetterman, Harry J. Cargas List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The Sunflower is the story of a dying Nazi SS soldier who calls Simon Wiesenthal, the author, into his hospital room and asks for forgiveness for the crimes he has committed. Wiesenthal leaves the room in silence without fufilling the Nazi's dying wish: to be forgivien by a Jew. The book also describes Simon Wiesenthal's own experiences in the concentration camps and instances where he was a vicitm of an anti-semitic movment. This book greatly moved me and opened my eyes to even more amazement and wonderment that I have have ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 217. Always Running | |
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by: Luis Rodriguez List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Always running is the powerful, vivid, and brutal autobiography of Luis J. Rodriguez. In his book he talks about the hardships he faced growing up as adolescent in the mid 1950's and 60's, which includes migrating to a new and foreign land (Mexico to the U.S.), gang life, losing loved ones to senseless acts of violence, and eventually breaking free from it all. Although I wasn't too interested in the book at first, it actually ended up touching me quite deeply. First of all I think Luis Rodriguez chose a great title for this book. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 218. Guerrilla Warfare: Che Guevara | |
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by: Ernesto Guevara Amazon.com's Price: $8.89 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Che Guevara's "Guerilla Warfare" is an excellent read invaluable to those studying latin american history, guerilla warfare and/or Guevara himself. This is not, as Guevara put it, a guerilla warfare bible; it is a guide or outline that's meant to be improved on. He covers topics from the basics of guerilla strategy, proper guerilla conduct to what equipment to bring the field. Guevara's book is very, very fascinating. You don't have to be a military strategist, a communist or guerilla fighter to enjoy this book. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 219. U.S. History for Dummies | |
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by: Steve Wiegand List Price: $19.99 Amazon.com's Price: $13.99 You Save: $6.00 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is U.S. History in a nutshell! Focusing on the most important details of our History, Steve Wiegand has compacted centuries of information into 360 pages. Interspersed with the well-researched information are sometimes humorous, and sometimes amazing, tidbits of little-known facts about events, Presidents, and personalities that have shaped our country.(Did you know that "Uncle Sam" was really Sam Wilson of Arlington,Massachusetts ?) Serving principally as a reference book rather than a textbook, I found ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 220. What We Saw : The Events of September 11, 2001, in Words, Pictures, and Video | |
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by: Cbs News List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $20.37 You Save: $9.58 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description September 11th was a day that many of us will remember. Some would like to forget but for many, they will not forget this day because the truth is, this day has charged our lives forever. With several books on the market about September 11th, "What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001 - In Words, Pictures, and Video" by CBS News, Dan Rather has one thing going that pushes this book up as one of the primary purchases for those looking for books on 9/11 and that is this book includes a 2-hour full length DVD. The book focuses ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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