Author: Sun Shuyun
In 1934, the Communist Party and its armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 10,000 miles, they suffered casualties and ended up in the North. Seventy years late ... |
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Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
Author: Jeff Sypeck
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl. With one gesture, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever sha ... |
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Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs
Author: John Pilger
A selection of articles, broadcasts, and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths, ranging from across many of the critical events, scandals, and struggles. This book bears witness to epic injustices ... |
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A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
Author: Tristram Stuart
How Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of meat at its core. "The Bloodless Revolution" is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, Eu ... |
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Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made
Author: Michael Knox Beran
In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transforme ... |
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The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
Author: Greg Behrman
In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced ... |
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Author: Andrew Roberts
Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prizewinner has been inspired by Churchill's example to write the story of the 20th century. Churchill wrote: 'E ... |
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Conscripts and Correspondents Caught Up in the Vietnam War
Author: Stuart MacGladrie & Candace Sutton Malcolm Brown
The Vietnam conflict was an event that bitterly divided Australian society. While many people supported the government's military response to the perceived threat posed by expasionist communism, many others violently opp ... |
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Author: Dirk Meier
The first sailors braved the North Sea and the Baltic in open wooden boats: their aims were varied - to fish, to trade, to conquer and plunder. Without maps or compasses, they steered by the sun or by landmarks on the co ... |
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Author: Antony Loewenstein
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and internation ... |
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For Forty-five Years the World Held Its Breath
Author: Jeremy Isaacs & Taylor Downing
Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world du ... |
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An African Childhood
Author: Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a ... |
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Author: Trevor Bentley
This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in NZ history. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamo ... |
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Maid, Myth and History
Author: Timothy Wilson-Smith
Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in ... |
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Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia
Author: Bruce Duncan
The split in the Labor Party in the mid 1950s was the culmination of an enormous struggle for the soul of the party, waged by fair means or foul. - Locked in bitter ideological dispute were, on the one hand, a small but ... |
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Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang
A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author. A tumultuous history of China's 20th century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Ma ... |
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The Conflict Between Religion & Politics from the French Revolution to the Great War
Author: Michael Burleigh
Sets out a link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the War on Terror. This book provides an examination of the politics of religion and the religion of politics in Eu ... |
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The First Men in Tanks
Author: Christy Campbell
The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War One: the British pioneer volunteers who were the first tank-men into battle. Inspired by a visit ... |
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Author: Joel Colton & Lloyd S. Kramer R.R. Palmer
A narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the political and religious conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This work offers a survey that helps readers understand both the complexities o ... |
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Author: Joel Colton & Lloyd S. Kramer R.R. Palmer
"A History of the Modern World" is a careful, well-written narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the political and religious conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It offers a wide-rangi ... |
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