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The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history.

The untold story of Mexican aviators in WWII, including their role in the Battle of the Philippines, is revealed in this illustrated military history.

A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize.

Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period.

Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity.

During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service.

Charles Frederick Algernon Portal was born in Hungerford, England, in 1893.

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media.

A little girl is kept from the world, and her mother attempts to recreate her life on her daughters.

2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEARIn this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East.

A history of the battle from Germany’s perspective: “An interesting account of a campaign that was decisive, but not as decisive as it could have been.

A sweeping account of the works of the Great God of Heaven through Jehanne d'Arc, Maid of France, given by those who lived in her day and who knew her and fought along beside her.

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis genocidal vision of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.

REPLACEMENT CELLThe oil companies ruled the world.

In the magical world of seventeenth-century Venice-lacework palaces flickering in gleaming waterways, opulence and decadence, creative liberty, and political rigidity-we are astounded to find that La Serenissima's dozens of convents housed most of the city's well-to-do girls and women, many of whom had been locked up by force, enclosed for life with little or no recourse to ever step beyond confining walls.

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning.

This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe.

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Uses diaries, first-hand accounts, and official records to take the reader through the Mosquito intruders' three-year campaign to help force the Japanese out of Burma, living and dying with the brave warriors in the five squadrons which flew the FB VI.