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A chronicle of the Civil War, based on a series of letters by a young Union Army soldier, follows his firsthand experiences in battle, during which he struggled to survive despite harsh weather and difficult food rationing, became wounded, ...

Comprising original research, and excerpts from rare Albanian sources, this is a compendium of primary source material that provides a year-by-year and sometimes day-by-day account of Albania's modern history.

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Detailed account of the history of Birmingham at the dawn of Industrial Revolution. Contains chapters on various trades, recreational areas, government etc. Originally published in 1783.

To consider modern American society as exceptional - that is, as distinctive and different from any contemporary European pattern of thought - is therefore, in Berthoff's theory, not at all the "illogical absurdity" that current ...

Clifford Markle served in both World Wars and this is about the First. No less a person than the former President of the United States endorsed Markle's account of his capture near the end of the war and his incarceration in German camps.

" In Benjamin Franklin's Humor, author Paul M. Zall shows how one of America's founding fathers used humor to further both personal and national interests.

Among the eminent scientists profiled here are Petr L. Kapitza, one of the most brilliant representatives of the great generation of Soviet physicists, a Nobel-Prize winner who risked his career-and his life-standing up for fellow ...

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Li does for Mao what the physician Lord Moran's memoir did for Winston Churchill—turns him into a human being. Here is Mao unveiled: eccentric, demanding, suspicious, unregretful, lascivious, and unfailingly fascinating.