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The Writers' War: The Great War in the Words of Great Writers Who Experienced it

Felicity Trotman

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'When I come home and leave behind Dark things I would not call to mind ...' wrote Leslie Coulson,...

Vintage Flying Helmets: Aviation Headgear Before the Jet Age

Mick J. Prodger

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This new book explores the history and development of early flying headgear throughout the...

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Jonathan D. Smele

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The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 covers the history of this period...

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The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander | 2008 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"In Argentina’s ‘dirty war’ in the ’70s, the military government had thousands of activists and political opponents ‘disappeared.’ This novel is about a mother and father dealing with the disappearance of their son. It’s a moving book that also has a lot of dark comedy in it. For instance, the parents accept free nose jobs in exchange for a debt. It also captures the comic absurdity of the bureaucracy of a dictatorship. What’s most interesting to me is, as one character makes clear, the truth tellers in life are so often written off as crazy."

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