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The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags - Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis
$35.00 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: very good
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working ...Show more
Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
$32.99 AUD
Category: American
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
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Category: American | Reading Level: very good
In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summer tha ...Show more
No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
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Category: American
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences with 'Ol' Man River' and Othello, as his ...Show more
Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County by John W Davis
$42.00 AUD
Category: American
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson ...Show more
This is America: A National Treasury by Miroslav Sasek; Hutton Wilkinson (Foreword by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: American
After the overwhelming success of the first collection of abridged versions of M. Sasek's most popular children's travel guides, This is the World, this new volume will focus on all of the most important cities and sites within the United States. With their mid-century modern, retro illustration ...Show more
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial and Mourning by Harold Holzer
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Category: American
For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented first hand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. The fateful story is told in more than 80 original documents, eyewitness reports, medical records, tri ...Show more
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 (American Remainders) by Laurence Bergreen
$24.99 AUD
Category: American
He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between people. He e ...Show more
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by ADLER, WILLIAM M
$29.99 AUD
Category: American
Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure, and the Mystery of the Saxons by Caroline Alexander
$65.00 AUD
Category: American
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
$19.95 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: good
"The Untold History of the United States" is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick's riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire - the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, fr ...Show more
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions by Dan Hampton
$32.99 AUD
Category: American
A gripping chronicle of the band of maverick aviators who signed on for the suicidal, dangerous top-secret "Wild Weasel" missions during the Vietnam War - which used controversial and revolutionary tactics to combat Soviet missile technology - from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. On July ...Show more