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Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson and Dan Morgenstern
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Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the...
American Gods: TV Tie-in
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American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and...
How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts
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During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad...
The Human Stain
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Philip Roth’s brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America – a magnificent...
Unspeakable
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Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot. Chris Hedges has been...
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Thoughts on Life and Advertising
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In and around a distinguished media career, Hugh Salmon has faced unusual life experiences, meeting...
American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
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John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A...
A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America! Vintage...
Unusual in that I don't think I've ever come across history told in such a manner before.
And, I have to say: I think it worked.
This tells the life story of Manfred von Richtohofen, otherwise (and perhaps more famously) known as The Red Baron - a German ace during the infancy of flight, and of warfare in the air (during The Great War, or World War One as it would later become known).
While it does, perhaps, gloss over the more horrific aspects of the war in the air (no parachutes,with the planes being death-traps, and with Richtohofens policy of aiming for the pilot rather than the plane) I have to say that I did learn more from this than I was already aware of - and no, unlike some of my American counterparts, my knowledge of him did NOT come from the Peanuts (right? isn't that the one with Snoopy?) cartoon!