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Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal-that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair...
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"Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies that are generally held to represent progress. These include rationality, technological and economic development,...
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"Illustrated with stunning cut paper art, these seven poetic vignettes capture true stories of courage, hope, and resilience from around the world. In Imagine A Garden, award-winning children's author Rina Singh shares seven real-life stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their communities amidst war, poverty, and violence. With vivid, textured images from celebrated Iranian illustrator Hoda Hadadi, this powerful picture book is:...
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2010
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Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...
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"On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces battled the Japanese for control of the region, Eleanor was...
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Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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First edition.
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xxviii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, seasoned war reporter Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse of the reality behind the headlines. Along the way he talks to the people living through the conflict-mothers, soldiers, businessmen, poets, politicians-whose memories of a contested past shape their attitudes, allegiances and hopes...
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World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the war effort, and the vast majority of the war's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe-- the war's deadliest killing ground-- experienced forced labor, deportation, mass executions, and genocide. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, fiction, and other first-person...
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St. Martin's Press
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2017.
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First U.S. edition.
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xxvi, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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"Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil--felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, bars...
11) Zardoz
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
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Widescreen version.
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A postapocalyptic story of a privileged society separated from the mass of the population who have reverted to savagery living in a world devasted by war and pollution. When a particularly bright savage makes his way into the world of the Eternals, he discovers the truth of his reality, and change for the world begins.
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Viking
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[2010]
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307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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A foreign correspondent traces the four-thousand-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First American edition.
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277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two World Wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I. They were inseparable childhood friends. Some were lost to the war. The others' lives were unimaginably upended, and now, postwar, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India,...
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Pumpkin scissors volume 4
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Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008
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196 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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A mob of starving commoners crash a decadent ball, forcing Alice to risk everything to protect the nobles, but when the commoners view Alice as the enemy, she must find a way to resolve the situation before anyone gets hurt.
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Pumpkin scissors volume 5
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Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2009
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213 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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Pumpkin Scissors must prevent an international incident following the kidnapping of a princess who is visiting the country for a clandestine reason.
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Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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173 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In the tradition of Redeployment, a short story collection from a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who served several combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan--a powerful depiction of life on the front lines of today's warfare. A mesmerizing debut collection that reveals what it is like to be a member of an elite special operations team, when so many missions take place behind night vision, ancient credos, and layers of secrecy. Told without a trace of bravado,...
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University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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xxi, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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A collection of eleven essays that explore various topics associated with the Civil War and the state of Texas including the lives of Texas women during the war, slavery, and postwar experiences of Confederate veterans.
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A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Between the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe plunged into a dark night of constant war, splintered sovereignties, marauding pagans, and more. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely interrupted by peace. From warlords whose armies threatened to cause the demise of European society, such as Alaric, Charles the Hammer, and Clovis; to...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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x, 219 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In The Long Shadow of War, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War retains such a hold on our national psyche and identity. Though the drama and tragedy of the subject, from the war's scope and size--an estimated death toll of 750,000, far more than all the rest of the country's wars combined--to the nearly mythical individuals involved--Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson--help explain why the...
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