The Alps - A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond by Stephen O'Shea
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes readers up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their 500-mile arc ...Show more
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises
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Category: History
This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of socialism ever devised. Mises presents a wide-ranging analysis of society, comparing the results of socialist planning with those of free-market capitalism in all a ...Show more
The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
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Category: History
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political philosophy: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished political scientist Shlomo Aviner ...Show more
Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin by Bodleian Library Staff
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Category: History
"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." So wrote Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR. Lenin was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a prolific writer and orator, he used his words to launch a soaring critique of imperi ...Show more
A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond by Emily Mayhew
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Category: History | Series: Wellcome
What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived together on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars across the globe with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring pe ...Show more
The Desert War : The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead
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Category: History | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War - later collected as his 'African Trilogy' - were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tu ...Show more
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman
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Category: History
21 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so powerfully addictive it has brought the government department that created it to a standstill. In a country on ...Show more
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East by Marc Lynch
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Category: History
Marc Lynch's last book, The Arab Uprising, described the then ongoing revolutionary change and prospect for the consolidation of democracy in key Arab countries that still seemed possible. But Lynch saw dark signs on the horizon, especially in Syria. That book ended with the hope that the Arab uprisings ...Show more
The Fear and The Freedom by Keith Lowe
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Category: History
The bestselling, prize-winning author explores the impact of the Second World War - for nations, cities and families around the world.How does the experience and memory of the Second World War - one of the most catastrophic events in human history - affect our lives today?The years after 1945 were a tim ...Show more
Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
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Category: History
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
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Category: History
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' - essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's sole supplier of heavy water. Under ...Show more
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
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Category: History
This text is an analysis of how and why the United States became involved in a disastrous all-out war in Southeast Asia. Fully researched and based on recently-released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it fully recreates what happened. It also pinpoint ...Show more