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Journey through Genocide

Raffy Boudjikanian

Journey through Genocide

Powerful accounts by genocide survivors, a journalist seeking to bear witness to their pain. Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey – all visited by genocide, all still reeling in its wake. In Journey through Genocide , Raffy Boudjikanian travels to communities that have survived genocide to understand the legacy of this most terrible of crimes against humanity. In this era of ethnic and religious wars, mass displacements, and forced...

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Raffy Boudjikanian

Ten Decisions

Larry D. Rose

Ten Decisions

Details the toughest decisions that shaped Canada's role in WWII, whose effects continue to this day. Why Canada went to war, defied Britain by organizing its own air force (and training over 100,000 cadets), pivoted to the U.S., and walked into a disaster in Dieppe. Presents the forgotten history of C.D. Howe, Canada's «Minister for Everything» whose wartime powers were almost unrivaled in Canada. How the Corvette, the «ugly little ship the Royal Canadian Navy didn't want,»...

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Larry D. Rose

El Cinco de Mayo

David Hayes-Bautista

El Cinco de Mayo

Why is Cinco de Mayo—a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862—so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time—it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S....

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David Hayes-Bautista

Race and America's Long War

Nikhil Pal Singh

Race and America's Long War

Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. <I>Race and America’s Long War </I>examines the relationship...

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Nikhil Pal Singh

The Confederate Reader

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The Confederate Reader

"An excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender . . . it will go a long way toward illuminating Confederate history." — The New York TimesFor any student of the War Between the States, this treasury of contemporary documents—all but a few written by Southerners — offers a wealth of insight and perspectives on life in the South during the conflict, how newspapers and periodicals covered events, and how Southerners reacted to the disastrous...

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Rausz

Tomasz Białkowski

Rausz

Berlin, lato 1939 roku. Młody esesman Egon von Rausch zostaje przyjęty do realizacji tajnego projektu T4. To plan zamordowania tysięcy chorych psychicznie i wykluczonych ze społeczeństwa ludzi. Rausch ma zorganizować transport śmierci z Prus Wschodnich do komór gazowych w Saksonii. Pewnego dnia dowiaduje się, że jego ojciec, którego przed laty uznano za zmarłego, żyje i ukrywa się w jednym ze szpitali. Rausch wyrusza w mroczną podróż, podczas której będzie dokonywał okrutnej selekcji ludzi do...

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Tomasz Białkowski

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...

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Charles Dickens

Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt...

Heinrich von Kleist

Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik

Eine Erzählung, die Kleist zum Anlass der Taufe seiner Patentochter Cäcilie Müller verfasste: Vier holländische Brüder planen zur Zeit des reformatorischen Bildersturms im 16. Jahrhundert, den Aachener Dom zu plündern. Die Nonnen feiern trotzdem das Fronleichnamsfest im Dom, und als die vier Brüder ihren wundervollen Gesang hören, geschieht ein regelrechtes Wunder…-

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Heinrich von Kleist

Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt...

Heinrich von Kleist

Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik

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Heinrich von Kleist

Добрые люди. Хроника расказачивания

Петр Панкратов

Добрые люди. Хроника расказачивания

В книге П. Панкратова «Добрые люди» правдиво описана жизнь донского казачества во время гражданской войны, расказачивания и коллективизации.

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