The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
By: Brandon M. Schechter
4.21
Format: None pages, ebook
"This book tells the story of the Great Patriotic War via objects from spoons to tanks. It was the …
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1. D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration
By: Michael Dolski , Sam Edwards , John Buckley , John Buckley
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944 has come to st… read more
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- world war ii
- history
2. Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory
By: Adrian R. Lewis
3.82
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A retired U.S. Army major critiques the Allied victory at Omaha Beach, arguing that this costly bat… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
3. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more
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"Su misma superioridad lo perdió"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"There is no Master but the Master,"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
4. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
By: None , Elizabeth R. Escobedo
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. de… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
By: Catherine Merridale
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
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6. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
By: Jan Tomasz Gross
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the… read more
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7. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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8. The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
By: Walter R. Borneman
4.32
Format: 559 pages, Hardcover
How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the worl… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- war
9. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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10. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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- russia
- history
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
11. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
By: Nora Seligman Favorov , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin… read more
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12. All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World W… read more
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13. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
14. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
By: Pat Barker
3.90
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more
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"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
15. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
16. Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
By: Elizabeth D. Samet
3.60
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that em… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- war
"Our national problem has not been ignoring the Civil War, but turning it into a kind of theme park in which nostalgia and mendacity have eclipsed the raw and unpleasant truth that one army fought, an…"-Elizabeth D. Samet, Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
17. Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks
By: William Ottens
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Published in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider’s look at one of the mos… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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- grad school
- nonfiction
- history
19. Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
By: Keith Lowe
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winnin… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- war
20. The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
By: Brandon M. Schechter
4.21
Format: None pages, ebook
"This book tells the story of the Great Patriotic War via objects from spoons to tanks. It was the … read more
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- russia
- soviet history
- history
- soviet union
- war
- world war ii
- grad school
- nonfiction
21. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII
By: Mary Louise Roberts
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on h… read more
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- history
