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Through a focus on a number of historical themes, debates, and different sources, the History curriculum introduces the students to a number of significant historical events and processes. Students may learn about the events and procedures through a discussion of these topics, but they could also experience the thrill of reading historical accounts. However, a useful method of determining whether the lessons learned. The process of having specified...
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For Herb, World War II is an opportunity for adventure. Shot down behind enemy lines, he comes face-to-face with its horrors. Decades later and haunted by his memories, will he finally confess to his part in it and cleanse his soul?
It's the end of the Great Depression and life is hard. For Herb Stenerude, the coming of the world war is an opportunity for adventure.
Filled with that youthful sense of immortality, he flies his fighter plane into...
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A golden boy grows to manhood throughout the height and downfall of Nazi Germany. How will his fierce loyalty to The Thousand-Year Reich be tempered by his odyssey through these formative years?Erich Jäger has it all. From the time he began school in 1933 Berlin he was tall, athletic, and popular, a natural leader. Erich rises through the youth programs of the Nazi government; the Jungvolk and, later, the Hitlerjugend.Events come to a head in 1943...
4) Medallion
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In April 1940 Nazi Germany makes a surprise attack on the major ports and airfields of Norway for control of the North Sea and the precious ore deposits of northern Sweden.The attack is a stunning success, except for the Capitol city. The defense of Oslo stalls the Germans for 24 hours--enough time for the Royal Family, members of the cabinet, and the entire treasury to escape, ultimately to England.Subsequently, Nazi aggression overruns most of Europe,...
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Soon after World War II, countless sightings of one of Hitler's missing henchmen were reported in western England. What was this man, a genius at weaving plots and counterplots, doing on British soil?On May 2, 1945, as the Allies stormed into Berlin, one of Hitler's powerful henchmen made a daring escape out of the Chancellery bunker. After his escape, some believed that a Red Army tank had killed him, but his body was not found. A world-wide manhunt...
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Welcome to the latest book in my series on global hunger. This edition features articles I wrote in 2009-2012, but with a historical twist. The stories take you back in time showcasing the history of fighting hunger. A chance to see how the past can influence the present. You can see the words and actions of leaders and also citizens who fought hunger during our history.Other articles talk about priorities, like how costly nuclear weapons are connected...
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The white hot story of a WWII freighter, loaded with high explosive fuel, its heroic crew and navy gunners drawn face to face with the most dangerous battle areas of the Pacific. A young Japanese Naval Air cadet trains for a mission that will bring him to in direct conflict with the star-crossed SS Corydon Snow.
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Anxious about the wreckage piling up in her life, Magdalena decides to settle the mystery surrounding her past. She discovers that a secret love affair between her birth parents years earlier began to unravel just as the political environment in Nazi Germany was bleeding over into neighboring states. Nazi death squads were on the move, hunting "undesirables." Faced with slow starvation, Magdalena's Gypsy mother made one fateful decision - one that...
9) Enemies
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It's 1916 as two young men from opposite sides of the Great War rush into an entanglement that will take a half century to unfold.It is November 11, 1968, fifty years to the day since the armistice of the Great War.. The seventy year old German diplomat Jurgen Stern is in Ottawa, Canada on a special assignment. He rescues a portfolio mistakenly left behind in his hotel lobby by a man near his own age. Inside are drawings that are obviously from a...
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We, of the far north, are drowning in immigrants who refuse to learn the language or assimilate into our way of life. These peasants, these wretched curs, are blights on our society. ~ William Delahunty MPSpring 1939. To appease his electorate, Delahunty orders a police roundup of Italian sugarcane workers. With his marriage failing, he initiates a volatile affair with Amy. What will be her revenge?Summer 1941. Canefarmer Luigi is a naturalized British...
11) Voyage of Hope
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Ariel Benowitz suffers through the worst night in the young man's life. Terrible men stroll the streets, leaving carnage and death behind. Will no one come to his rescue?Felix Schneider inherited a promise from his father. It was made to Ariel's father. Will Felix's outstretched hand offer more than hope?
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General George S. Patton and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel never met on the battlefields of World War II. If they did, it certainly would have been a struggle of life and death, a terrifying duel. Their similar tactics, undisputable courage, bravery, cool head, offensive spirits which turn to wild attacks of same degree, complete knowledge of all aspects of modern war and of its techniques earned them very important positions in world war literature....
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This is a Summary of Kate Andersen Brower's New York Times Bestseller: First Women The Grace and Power of Americas' Modern First LadiesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.One of the most underestimated-and challenging-positions...
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Rome has fallen, and in the empire's wake, Europe is fractured, ruled by barbarian tribes and petty kings.One such kingdom has never had a name. Nestled in a beautiful valley in the Iberian Peninsula, the Unnamed Kingdom is a harsh place. Slaves labour under threat of the whip, and all are at the mercy of the cruel king's whims.Eubulus, the Master of the Army, has long dreamed of more. Of true freedom, of a kingdom without kings. While serving the...
15) Tao Te Ching
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In a compellingly simple rhetorical style the book addresses how to live a simple, peaceful and harmonious life, how to rid oneself of desires and free society of institutions that promote greed. This dual-language edition of Tao Te Ching presents the original Chinese characters with a new translation on the facing page. With a new introduction that discusses the questioned authorship of the text and editorial notes, all 81 brief chapters are included,...
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Frank Nixon, a raw 19-year-old army private, finds himself serving in Malta in 1940, which is about to endure the most prolonged and destructive assaults of its colourful and violent history. Soon aerial bombardments batter the small island and the defenders struggle to withstand the increasingly relentless attacks. Despite the dangers of life on the besieged island, Frank becomes fascinated by its history as a tiny strategic territory, for centuries...
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SS: Hell on the Western Front describes in vivid detail the exploits of the Waffen-SS in Western Europe from 1940 to 1945. The book begins with the formation of the Waffen-SS and its growth and development into a combat arm. The successes of 1940 are examined, as the SS troopers swept all opposition before them, as is the darker side of the organization, with the first atrocities committed against Allied prisoners. SS: Hell on the Western Front features...
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This is a Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi; the harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team...
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Contessa and Ettore Saforo awake to a normal day in war-stricken, occupied Italy. By the end of the day, however, their house is in ruins and they must seek shelter and protection wherever they can. But the turbulent politics of 1944 refuses to let them be.
As Tito and his Yugoslav Army threaten their German-held town of Fiume, Ettore finds himself running for his life, knowing that neither side is forgiving of those who have assisted the enemy. His...
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After receiving an ancient ruby clasp from her long dead grandmother, Hannah Wilson decides to visit Masada, supposedly the place where this gift was given to one of her ancestors. Travelling with her is Max Vallier, her best friend, who was already going to Herod's fortress in the desert, as part of an archaeological excavation team.Once there, Hannah is disturbed by strange visions. Visions, which seem to revolve around the AD66 attack by Zealot...
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