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"'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine"--
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments--from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
559 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The attack on Pearl Harbor unfolds through the actions and perspectives of American, Japanese, and Hawaiian leaders, soldiers, sailors, nurses, and civilians"--
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 237 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"A gripping oral history of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the arrival of a galvanizing new era, told from the perspective of the anti-racist activists who fought back"--
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to intervene, and events culminated in the murder...
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One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"For readers of Jarhead and Phil Klay, a Marine Combat Cameraman offers a character-rich, unfiltered look at military life in Afghanistan, from a Millennial perspective of soldiers raised with modern media and graphic video games"--
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English
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In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering...
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Fortieth anniversary edition
Physical Desc
xxix, 354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home -- physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone. A Rumor of War is far more than one soldier's story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America's indifference to the fate of the men sent...
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Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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The story of Sam Herciger provides us with a powerful Holocaust memoir. It traces the journey of an aspiring young artist who embarks on a quest to find artistic freedom during the danger-filled period of Nazi hegemony in Europe. Sam's life is then caught up in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. His adventures begin in prewar Poland, where Sam grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home. It is there that he meets a mysterious figure on the...
10) Black dog down
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Series
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[Tissa Salter]
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
149 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"2020. The world goes into crisis with an outbreak of a mysterious virus leaving death in its path. This is the nail-biting memoir of a disease, a dog stranded 8,000 miles from the teacher who loved her, and a social network of strangers who resuced both." --
11) The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
753 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp. Searching and singular, The Diary Keepers mines the diaries of ordinary citizens to understand the nature of resistance,...
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Publisher
Pandora Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Family Torn Apart is the harrowing story of one family's flight from Soviet Ukraine in the early years of the Second World War. Beginning her narrative in her youth, Justina faithfully recreates the peace and security of growing up in a Mennonite community in Ukraine. This security, however, is threatened more and more by political changes in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. With the outbreak of the war comes an irrevocable rupture in the peace of...
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English
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"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
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Wild Surmise Productions, Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor, Robert Gottlieb, have worked together to create some of the greatest non-fiction books in history. Now 86, Caro is determined to complete the final volume of his masterwork, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson"; Gottlieb, 91, wants to edit it. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities, and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects...
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Publisher
Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 174 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 23 cm
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English
Description
"In this real-life adventure, Justa, youngest of ten children in a Mennonite family in WWII era Ukraine, revisits a childhood in totalitarian Stalinist USSR. When authorities swoop down in the middle of the night to seize neighbor's fathers, Justa begins to dread the dark. Would her beloved papa be next? As both armies--German and Russian--approach, thirteen-year-old Justa and her family hurriedly pack their wagon to flee. What valuables should they...
Author
Publisher
Imagine and Wonder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 146 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of...
17) The forger
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Berlin, 1940. Cioma Schönhaus is a young Jewish man who won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma audaciously adopts the identity of a marine officer to escape being deported like his family before him. Drawing on his art school background, he joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his masterfully forged IDs, created with just a brush, some...
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Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist Gianluca Costantini present Zodiac, Ai Weiwei's first graphic...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
775 pages (large print), 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and...
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