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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943»rank: 2816par: Rick Atkinson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the 'Axis ... forever lost the initiative' and the 'fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved.' Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous cross-channel invasion of France and served as a grueling 'testing ground' for an as-yet inexperienced American army. Lastly, by relegating Great Britain to what Atkinson calls the status of 'junior partner' in ... |
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found»rank: 13185par: Suketu Mehta
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the 'Axis ... forever lost the initiative' and the 'fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved.' Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous cross-channel invasion of France and served as a grueling 'testing ground' for an as-yet inexperienced American army. Lastly, by relegating Great Britain to what Atkinson calls the status of 'junior partner' in ... |
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Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914»rank: 17410par: David McCullough
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia. All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. ... |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China»rank: 4291par: Jung Chang
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of ... |
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal»rank: 20676par: Eric Schlosser
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and ... |
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Travels with Herodotus»rank: 16820par: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and ... |
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A Year with the Queen»rank: 769par: Robert Hardman
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and ... |
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The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour»rank: 4058par: Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and ... |
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72»rank: 35187par: Hunter S. Thompson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President. He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic. A classic! |
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Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy»rank: 21005par: Benjamin Barber
Chroniques et points de vue:From :As soon as you hear the conceit of this book--that there are two great opposing forces at work in the world today, border-crossing capitalism and splintering factionalism, and that they are the two biggest threats to democracy--you know it rings true enough to be worth reading. Although capitalism could have only grown to current levels in the soil of democracies, Benjamin Barber argues that global capitalism now tends to work against the very concept of citizenship, of people thinking for themselves and with their neighbors. Too often now, how ... |