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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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#1 Hannah's friend Caitlin always assumed that now Jack had left, Hannah would start dating and paint the town red. Instead, Hannah was exhausted and felt seventy-five rather than thirty-five.
#2 Daniel Morton, the new Head, was standing in the doorway of Hannah's classroom. He was there to check a couple of pieces of work. He had been hired to help Freddie reach his potential, but...
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Get the Summary of Dmitry Degtev & Dmitry Zubov's Air Battle for Moscow 1941—1942 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: In October 1941, Operation Typhoon and the battle for Moscow began. According to Hitler's plan, it was to be the 'last offensive', after which nothing could stop Germany from conquering Britain and the rest of Europe — but first he had to overcome the Soviets and...
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#1 The town of Holcomb is located on the high wheat plains of western Kansas. It is a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, and the men wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes.
#2 Until November 1959, no Americans had ever heard of Holcomb. But when four foreign sounds...
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#1 The band Green Day, who were signed to Lookout Records, had brought two lawyers with them when they came to visit the label. They were worried that their label was not prepared for the big time, and that they would be eaten alive in the music industry without the familial support of Lookout.
#2 In the 1980s, Larry Livermore moved into a solar-paneled cabin in...
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#1 I pulled into the station, and the needle was on E, which was a mistake. In Detroit, you don't get your gas on the east side, not even at high noon. Because the east side of Motown is Dodge City: sel-awless and crazy.
#2 I spent my last ten dollars on gas. I was approached by two men in Arab dress who asked me what I was doing in Detroit. I didn't answer them, but...
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#1 The Stonehenge documentary I was involved in in 1998 brought in Malagasy archaeologist Ramilisonina to explain the significance of stone monuments to the locals. He explained that stone is an everlasting material with which one honors and commemorates the dead.
#2 An analogy is a comparison that implies an equivalence or a parallel between two things. We use analogies...
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#1 The American airmen were briefed on the mission to attack the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory in Bremen, Germany. The factory was the leading producer of the Luftwaffe's Focke-Wulf 190, the best fighter plane in the German Air Force.
#2 The air armada grew as the three other bomber groups assigned to Mission Number 52 slipped into position. The first sign of the...
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#1 The United States government built a naval base on the Mississippi River near the segregated Storyville neighborhood of New Orleans in 1917. The area was a jazz musicians' paradise, but it was closed down in 1919, and thousands of people left the city.
#2 The Mafia had built their empires on illegal, bootlegged liquor, which brought them millions of dollars...
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#1 I was six when my father gave me a bright-red scorebook that opened my heart to the game of baseball. I spent my afternoons sitting cross-legged before the squat Philco radio which stood as a permanent fixture on our porch in Rockville Centre, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York.
#2 My father, Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns, was a short man who appeared much...
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#1 Private James Lewis, an unremarkable member of the British East India Company's army, awoke in Agra. He was walking into one of history's most incredible stories.
#2 Lewis was born in London in 1800. He knew from a young age that Britain was not kind to people like him. He enlisted in the British East India Company's army in 1821, hoping for a better life.
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#1 On September 21, 1906, a five-year-old boy named Willie Labarbera was playing in front of his family's fruit store in New York City. He was kidnapped and never seen again. His family and friends suddenly realized that he had been taken by La Mano Nera, or the Black Hand Society.
#2 The Black Hand was an infamous crime organization that engaged in extortion, assassination,...
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#1 The count of Sicily, Roger, lifted his leg and farted. By the truth of my religion, he exclaimed, there is more use in that than in what you have to say. His advisors stood chastened. The plan they had recommended was not a good one, as courtiers' plans often are.
#2 Roger, count of Sicily, was born around the year 1040. He was the eleventh-century Europe's...
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#1 The Angevin country began between Normandy and Brittany and extended down through Maine and Anjou. It was during the reign of the Angevins that the English family gained its reputation for violence and wickedness. But the English were so proud of them that they often forgave their wickednesses and peccadilloes.
#2 The Counts of Anjou removed themselves to England...
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#1 Kerosene is a liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks like spaghetti. Olive oil is a gloopy liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks more like twirled spaghetti.
#2 The Persian physician and alchemist Rhazes developed special chemical procedures to extract kerosene, a liquid made of carbon-based molecules...
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#1 The three leaders who would at Yalta decide the end of the war and the shape of the future peace shared only a single common goal: the speedy defeat of Nazi Germany. They were all in poor health, with Roosevelt being the poorest.
#2 Churchill was a habitual alcoholic. He enjoyed whisky, which he always drank without ice but with enough soda or water for one of his...
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