From the Western Front to Salonika: A French Soldier Writes Home (1914-1918)
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The book's editor, Catherine Labaume-Howard, found 300 of her grandfather's letters in an old potato...
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The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
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“In The Gourmands’ Way, Justin Spring brilliantly recounts the French odyssey of six remarkable...
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The Letters of John F. Kennedy
Martin W. Sandler and John F. Kennedy
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he is regarded as...
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The Life of Henrietta Anne: Daughter of Charles I
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Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the...
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The Man Who Saw the Future: A Biography of William Lilly
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Winter, 1643. Astrologer William Lilly is gazing at a pot of piss. Parliament has asked him to help:...
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Beate Sirota Gordon, John W. Dower and Nicole A. Gordon
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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese...
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Their Trade is Treachery: The Full, Unexpurgated Truth About the Russian Penetration of the World's Secret Defences
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Harry Chapman Pincher is regarded as one of the finest investigative reporters of the twentieth...
Toupie Lowther: Her Life - a New Assessment
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Toupie Lowther appears as a walk-on character in many biographies of Radclyffe Hall and Una...
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Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
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Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players...
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Putty: From Tel-El-Kebir to Cambrai: the Life and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney 1861-1941
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Once described by a subordinate as "the most completely ignorant general I served during the war",...