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Trace the history of the 71st Infantry Division, from its inception in 1943 on, in this fascinating account. Nicknamed the Red Circle Division from their insignia, the 71st played a significant role in World War II in Alsace-Lorraine and also in Austria, where they liberated a concentration camp. Features photographs, index, and endpaper color maps.
82) Panic Terror
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Panic Terror is a book about friends, family, and eccentric southern relatives. Two marriages, raising six children, building a house, teaching close to 40 yearsits a collection of autobiographical poems and stories. Panic and terror are the emotions I feel most strongly when I sit down to write. Panthe god associated with delivering both joy and terroroften imposed both states of being on unsuspecting individuals he encountered as he played his flute....
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My storey is about my life. I was born in 1939, and my family literally broke apart when I was little. I do not recall ever living in a home with my mother and father together. There were several years I spent in foster care; and then living with Mom and then Dad, bouncing back and forth a couple of times, until I was a junior in high school. My father moved, but I didnt. I spent my final year in high school living with a local family, thanks to a...
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"That would never happen to me. I'm too strong. I would walk out." Those were KC Andrews' thoughts as a trainee nurse listening to a lecture on domestic violence. But when it happened to her, it took years to finally leave. She has now rebuilt her life from the ashes of a brutal marriage, and along the way met other women who have survived the fog of fear and feelings of worthlessness – and then on the outside, endured the disbelief and bureaucratic...
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Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828—1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844—1919) were prolific letterwriters.
Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime - 840 of these addressed to his wife. Letters written by (or to) Sofia Andreevna over her lifetime also numbered in the thousands. When Tolstaya published Lev Nikolaevich's letters to her, she declined to include any of her 644 letters to her husband. The absence...
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Recent research has revealed new information about the Welsh Tudor mathematician, Robert Recorde who invented the equals sign (=) — what inspired his work and what was its influence on the development of mathematics education in the English-speaking world. The findings of that research, presented at a commemorative conference in 2008, form the core of this publication. The book begins with an account of Recorde's life and an overview of his work...
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Este libro comienza con la intervención de Enrique Krauze quien propone, para el trabajo del biógrafo disminuir el peso de la teoría sin desecharla. Señala también que la mejor manera de escribir biografía es lanzarse a nadar libre y azarosamente en el flujo de los recuerdos y documentos para escuchar atenta y apaciblemente lo que allí se dice. Enfatiza que cientos de personajes mexicanos esperan pacientemente a que cientos de jóvenes mexicanos...
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Soon after his appointment as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1950, Gordon E. Dean began an office diary composed primarily of notes from his telephone conversations. The diary contains Dean's accounts of the mobilization of atomic energy for the Korean War, the decision to conduct atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the U.S., the development and testing of the first thermonuclear device, the decisions to erect vast plants for the...
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Summary of Disrupted by Dan Lyons | Includes Analysis Preview: Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a memoir about Lyons's experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known for starting a popular satirical blog about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At age 51, he lost his job in the magazine's downsizing. He started looking for another job right away to...
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- El 26 de enero de 1939, Barcelona cayó en manos de los franquistas. A partir de entonces, miles de familias republicanas se exiliaron en Francia. Tuvieron que dejar todo y, a pesar de la pena que los embargaba, esta era tan fuerte como el deseo de libertad que los impulsaba.
- Entre toda aquella gente había niños, en ocasiones de muy corta edad. Siguiendo a sus padres, experimentaron el exilio, los campos de internamiento y de concentración...
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Im glad Im alive. Doris Louise Bailey, a teen in the Prohibition era, writes this sentiment over and over in her diaries as she struggles with a life-threatening bout of scarlet fever. But its also an apt summation of how she lived in the years following her brush with death. Reaching for the Moon: More Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen (1927-1929) contains Doriss true-life adventures as she flirts with boys, sneaks sips of whiskey and bets on racehorses...
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The Editor's father, Colonel John S. Wise, was a member of General George C. Marshall's staff. He accompanied Marshall to the July-August 1945 Potsdam Conference, outside of Berlin, where he served as the U.S. Army's liaison officer.
Col. Wise wrote sixteen detailed letters to his wife, Elizabeth Thompson Wise, describing not only the day-to-day events of the Potsdam Conference, but also his observations of how a defeated and destroyed Berlin appeared...
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From the cotton fields of West Texas to a billion-dollar entrepreneur When Jason Camper launched Le-Vel with co-founder Paul Gravette, his guiding vision was to create a company, a brand, and a product line that had never been seen before. Over 10 million customers, approaching 3 billion dollars in sales, and 30 patents later, the inventor of the THRIVE premium product line has fulfilled each goal he set for himself, and he's ready for more. In THRIVIN':...
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Summary of Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen | Includes Analysis Preview: Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen blends historical narrative with an in-depth account of the personal lives of members of the British royal family. He considers the stability of the past, present, and future monarchy under Queen Elizabeth II and her heirs, including the nation's crisis of confidence following the death of...
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Wie wurde ich eigentlich Nationalsozialist? Diese Frage stellte der junge SA-Mann Horst Wessel ins Zentrum seiner bislang unveröffentlichten politischen Autobiographie, die er wenige Monate vor seinem gewaltsamen Tod im Jahr 1930 schrieb. Es handelt sich um eine einzigartige Geschichtsquelle, die bezeichnende Schlaglichter auf die politische Kultur der Weimarer Republik und auf den frühen Nationalsozialismus wirft. Ein spannendes Zeitdokument, herausgegeben...
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Summary of Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha | Includes Analysis Preview: Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha is a memoir of the October 2009 Battle of Kamdesh, in which hundreds of Taliban insurgents attacked Keating, the most remote American combat outpost in Afghanistan. For 14 hours, the Black Knight Troop fought to defend their post. The memoir provides a detailed account of the battle, and how Romesha, the staff sergeant...
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W. Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) was a prolific writer, poet, novelist, journalist, historian. As a political activist, he also laid the groundwork for Jamaican independence. Finally published, fifty-two years after his death, his autobiography, These Many Years, offers a representative Caribbean life: rural upbringing, precocious talent, travel to United States, literary success, adventures across the world, involvement in politics, return to Jamaica.
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