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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by David Grann
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 A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": What... more info>>
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The Second World War: Volume 2: Their Finest Hour [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Very Last Day of the Eastern Roman Empire (And The 1,480 Years Leading To It) [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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May 29, 1453: one of the world's great empires breathed its last breath and died under a pounding by the world's first super siege gun. That empire was the ancient Roman Empire--its surviving Eastern half, which outlived the Rome of the West by a thousand years. The people of Constantinople wouldn't know what 'Byzantine' meant--they considered themselves to be Romans. Orban's great bombard, named Basilica, pounded the impregnable walls for weeks. It was capable of tossing stone balls weighing ne... more info>>
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Holocene Mysteries [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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What really happened during that early twilight zone of human existence--after the last Ice Age, but before people started writing things down? We live in an epoch called the Holocene, which began about 12,000 years ago, and of which we know relatively little except for the past 6,000 years since writing was invented. But there are mysterious megaliths around the world, and strange cities built by skull cultists who kept their dead around--and other evidence that all is not what we may think. Wi... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Next Ice Age: Tomorrow [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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Global warming is a reality, not for the first time in the past 130,000 years. The only question is how much of it is caused by nature, and how much by mankind. We examine the counterintuitive possibility that global warming may lead to an ice age, starting as early as our lifetimes. Our current epoch, the Holocene, began about 12,000 years ago. The Holocene has witnessed at least two warming episodes and several coolings. The European Medieval Warming Period was an anomaly lasting from 850 to 1... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Second World War: Volume 1: The Gathering Storm [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Walking The Ostia Road to Rome [Ancient Rome Walks Series, Part 1 of 12] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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In the first of twelve articles, we walk from the ancient port of Ostia to the imperial city of Rome, now (150 A.D.) under the enlightened rulership of Antoninus Pius. ### For the first time ever: here is a complete walk through ancient Rome, for the lay reader, through all fourteen Augustan districts. It's a virtual tour, told as if we are really a group of tourists walking through the thronged markets and alleys of the imperial capital in 150 A.D. Learn about Roman history, religion, and custo... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Guess what? The Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states' rights--an idea reviled today--were even more important than the Constitution's checks and balances. The "Wild" West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn't involve an intern in a blue dress. Surprised? Don't be. In America, where history is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and fl... more info>>
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Six Silent Men [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Reynel Martinez
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"No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men."[pg. 13] In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step,... more info>>
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The Sator Enigma: Ancient Roman Mystery, Solved At Last? [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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The inscription is found in ruins around the former Roman Empire: Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas. From a military headquarters at Dura Europos (in modern Syria) to a sports complex in ancient Pompeii to the towns of Manchester and Cirencester in Great Britain, the mysterious saying appears to have been an aphorism or a spell of extraordinary importance in Classical Roman society. Since at least 1880, generations of scholars have been working to solve it, in various disciplines, and until now nobo... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Guns of August [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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"More dramatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."--CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time,... more info>>
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The Second World War: Volume 3: The Grand Alliance [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Underground [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Haruki Murakami
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From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the rel... more info>>
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Acceptable Loss [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
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 The true-to-life story of a Ranger who volunteered to serve on a Blue Team in the Air Cavalry, racing to the aid of soldiers who faced the same dangers he had barely survived in the jungles of Vietnam. Whether enduring NVA sniper attacks, surviving ""friendly"" fire, or landing in hot LZs, Jorgenson discovered that in Vietnam you never knew whether you were paranoid or just painfully aware of the possibilities. From the Paperback edition.
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Fields of Honor [Secure eReader]
by Edwin C. Bearss
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Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict that still fascinates America. Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg: these hallowed battles and more than a dozen more come alive as never before, rich with human interest and colorful detail culled from a lif... more info>>
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Imperial Rome's Regionary Catalogs: Memory, Mystery, and Melancholy [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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One of the most valuable historical records left to modern topologists of Rome are the so-called Regionary Catalogs. What we have are barbarized copies of a mysterious ancient document called the Notitiae (also, in slightly different versions, the Curiosum). These documents are loaded with vital statistics and lists of important monuments regarding the Imperial capital in the late empire period. While they are a fountain of information about lost monuments, and streets that people once walked an... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Regio XIII: Aventine Hill [Ancient Rome Walks Series, Part 2 of 12] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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In the second of twelve articles, we enter the imperial city of Rome near the Mons Testaceus (Hill of Shards) in the sub-Aventine plain, in District 13. On our walk in this article, we cover the three major sections of this district: (1) the Aventine Hill itself, with its mix of charming old neighborhoods and prestigious structures; (2) the sub-Aventine plain, with its navalia or dockyards and warehouses; and (3) the greatest shopping center of the ancient world, the Emporium and Porticus Aemili... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Killer Angels [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Michael Shaara
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A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War. From the Hardcover edition.
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The Second World War: Volume 5: Closing the Ring [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Very Crazy, G.I.: Strange But True Stories of the Vietnam War [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
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AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM--AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES In this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands to the Cong-infested Mekong Delta."Finders Keepers" became the sacred byword for one exhausted recon team who stumbled upon a fortune worth more than $500,000--and managed, with a little American ingen... more info>>
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam [Secure eReader]
by Neil Sheehan
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In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann--"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"--and of the tragedy that destroyed that country and the lives of so many Americans. Outspoken and fearless, John Paul Vann arrived in Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. A Bright Shining... more info>>
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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Robert K. Massie
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In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Deadly Transit [MultiFormat]
by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
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The true story of Mason & Dixon's voyage to Indonesia in 1761 to observe a rare transit of the planet Venus ... and what happened when a naval battle interrupted the voyage. (Published: 2001)
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Disaster on Green Ramp: The Army's Response [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall
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A powerful and compelling story of pain, terror, pride, courage, and compassion, this work celebrates the magnificent spirit of the men and women who make up America's military community. Based largely upon the first-person accounts of those involved in the 23 March 1994 incident, this official study by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History describes the tragic events beginning with the collision of a C-130 Hercules transport and an F-16 fighter attempting to land simultaneously at Pope Air... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 [Secure eReader]
by Clay Blair
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Clay Blair served in combat on a submarine in the Pacific, attended Tulane and Columbia universities, and became the National Security Correspondent for Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post magazines in Washington, then editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post. He has published hundreds of magazine articles and 24 prior books. These include biographies of Admiral H.G. Rickover, Generals Douglas MacArthur, Omar N. Bradley, Matthew B. Ridgway, and John F. Kennedy and most recently, a defi... more info>>
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