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The fall of Constantinople
Steven Runciman
This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to W...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning au...
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TTC Victorian Britain
Victorian Britain 36 Lectures from Patrick N Allit
Darwin. Gladstone. Disraeli. Dickens. Meet the pioneering, paradoxical Britons ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the b...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is an eloquent, fully-documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during th...
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London - A History
Wilson
Wilson opens his history of London with a metaphor of buried rivers and buried past, evoking various little-known tributaries of t...
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The Kennedy Detail
Gerald Blaine
Even today, almost five decades after John F. Kennedy was slain, the public continues to be captivated by the "Kennedy Curse" and ...
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The Terrible Hours
Peter Maas
It is the eve of World War II. America's newest submarine lies flooded in the depths of the North Atlantic. Miraculously, 33 crewm...
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Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill
Great Leaders
Yet it's important to remember how vital the democratic process is, specifically because it can lead to the election of great lead...
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The American Civil War - Taught
Gary W. Gallagher
Course Lecture Titles Prelude to War The Election of 1860 The Lower South Secedes The Crisis at Fort Sumter The Opposing Sides, I ...
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D-Day
Stephen E. Ambrose
They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other men. But when the test came, ...
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Nazism and War
Richard Bessel
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in way...
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Secret Empire
Robert K. Tanenbaum
During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, revoluti...
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