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The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944»rank: 4549par: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
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House Of Rothschild The World Banker 1849 To 1999»rank: 8878par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial ... |
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Standard Operating Procedure»rank: 2106par: Philip Gourevitch
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial ... |
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We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda»rank: 8231par: Philip Gourevitch
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it,' Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The 'stories' in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly ... |
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American Rifle: A Biography»rank: 12318par: Alexander Rose
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it,' Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The 'stories' in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly ... |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage»rank: 21161par: Alfred Lansing
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again in ... |
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The Great Depression: 1929-1939»rank: 9546par: Pierre Berton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again in ... |
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Essays on the Great Depression»rank: 17873par: Ben S. Bernanke
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again in ... |
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Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D Day»rank: 26332par: Cornelius Ryan
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A true classic of World War ll history, The Longest Day tells the story of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Journalist Cornelius Ryan began working on the book in the mid-1950s, while the memories of the D-day participants were still fresh, and he spent three years interviewing D-day survivors in the United States and Europe. When his book was first published in 1959, it was tremendously successful, establishing many of the legends of D-day that endure in the public's mind. Ryan was ... |
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Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944»rank: 3956par: Mark Zuehlke
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A true classic of World War ll history, The Longest Day tells the story of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Journalist Cornelius Ryan began working on the book in the mid-1950s, while the memories of the D-day participants were still fresh, and he spent three years interviewing D-day survivors in the United States and Europe. When his book was first published in 1959, it was tremendously successful, establishing many of the legends of D-day that endure in the public's mind. Ryan was ... |