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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy)
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Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Topping a Pulitzer Prize-winning effort is tough; finding originality in a World War II narrative is even tougher. Yet Rick Atkinson accomplishes both with The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. His previous work, An Army at Dawn, won the 2003 Pulitzer in history, but Atk... »
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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This is a spectacular book. The author did a fantastic job in bringing together adventure, history and a little bit of science, with a very good narrative and great character development. In fact, it would make a terrific "Indiana Jones-style" movie.
As a Brazilian, I have always admired Candido Rondon as a real life hero, and this book o... »
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Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews
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Having grown up in Chicago and spent a chunk of my adult life there as well, perhaps the thing I miss most is Studs Terkel and WFMT, the best
FM station in the country. I learned as much about life and the never-ending struggle for human rights from Studs' interviews as I did from any
professor or priest. Hearing these wonderful chunks of... »
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The Prince
When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set... »
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The Greatest Generation (Tom Brokaw)
Veteran reporter and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went to France to make a documentary marking the 40th anniversary of D-day in 1984. Althoug... »
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