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Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century"--
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with beakers, microscopes, and hundreds upon hundreds of books sat Edward Oscar Heinrich, America's first forensic scientists. Working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937, gathers snippets of information while living the life of an aristocrat in Poland and conducting an affair with a lawyer for the League of Nations, but he finds himself scrambling to save the life of one of his spies and alert authorities to what is going on when it becomes clear the Nazis are preparing to mount a tank attack
Publisher
[Alexandria, Va.]
Pub. Date
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Includes bonus feature "Over Ireland" and web addresses.Explores Ireland's history between the Stone Age and the Norman invasion, examining what is known about famous ancient figures such as Queen Maeve and warrior Cu Chullain; the growth of Christianity between the fifth and ninth centuries; and the warring and corruption that marked the tenth through twel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
A story of the interlocked lives of masters and slaves before and after the Civil War, based on the recollections of Maggie, a light-skinned slave, whose love affair with Gatewood Plantation heir Duncan Gatewood resulted in much heart
Author
Publisher
Marine Corps University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Oil & War addresses the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II, stressing its importance to all nations during times of both peace and conflict. This is accomplished by studying the impact that oil had on the war's many battles and campaigns in theaters throughout the world, seen from the viewpoints of both Allied and Axis nations in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific. To win a modern war, a country must have enough...
Author
Series
Dolphin book volume C37
Publisher
Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Publisher
Marine Corps University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The basis for On Contested Shores has been under construction since before the Commandant released the planning guidance. As career Marine officers, who spent very little time at sea, the editors have long been concerned that the Marine Corps was becoming too land-centric, heavily reflecting the characteristics of a second land army. This has been true since 1991, when the Marine Corps participated in a land campaign in Iraq, and especially since...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe. Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured...
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