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102 Minutes

Author: Jim Dwyer
Publication Date: 1 September 2005

At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading emails, making calls, eating croissants... over the next 102 minutes each would become part of a drama for the ages. This title tells the saga of the men and women - the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished - as they made 102 minutes count.

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The Bedford Boys
One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

Author: Alex Kershaw
Publication Date: 2 June 2003

An account of the D-Day story of Bedford, Virginia, which lost 21 of its sons in the first hours of the landings at Omaha Beach - the highest loss any individual town suffered.

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The American West

Author: Dee Brown
Publication Date: 4 May 2004

As the railroads open up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape.

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The Penguin History of the United States of America

Author: Hugh Brogan
Publication Date: 29 March 2001

From early British colonisation to the Reagan years, this title captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress, it explores the period leading to Independence from the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - the good and the bad.

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Team of Rivals
the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publication Date: 29 November 2012

Shows how Abraham Lincoln saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions. This title offers a study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen.

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Hell's Gorge
The Battle to Build the Panama Canal

Author: Matthew Parker
Publication Date: 6 March 2008

Explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. Using diaries, memoirs, newspapers and private letters, this work weaves in the stories of the ordinary men and women who worked on the canal and their everyday life on the construction.

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Casual Factors in American Economic Growth in the Nineteenmth Century

Author: Peter Temin
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1975

As title suggests...

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The American Future
A History

Author: Simon Schama
Publication Date: 2 October 2008

"The American Future: A History".

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Bush at War
Inside the Bush White House

Author: Bob Woodward
Publication Date: 25 November 2002

"Washington Post" journalist Bob Woodward was allowed unprecedented access to presidential closed-door meetings and briefings in order to examine how George W. Bush has fared as 44th US president since the September 11th acts of terrorism. This volume reveals his findings.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West

Author: Dee Brown
Publication Date: 3 January 1998

Describes how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. This book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. It focuses on a national disgrace.

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Your Aztec Homework Helper

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Publication Date: 22 June 2006

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The American West

Author: Dee Brown
Publication Date: 7 February 1996

By the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", this work portrays life in the American West from 1840 to the turn of the century. It interweaves stories of native Americans, ranchers and settlers, profiling figures such as Geronimo, Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp.

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Living Poor
American's Encounter with Ecuador

Author: Moritz Thomsen
Publication Date: 9 October 1989

At the age of 48, the author sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. This title presents his story.

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Rough Crossings

Author: Simon Schama
Publication Date: 4 May 2006

Tells the story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. This work follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia.

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9/11 Revealed

Author: Rowland Morgan
Publication Date: 11 August 2005

Bringing together research with the work of independent journalists, this work reveals that important parts of the official story are not tenable. It tells that elections have been won, laws have been passed, and wars have been fought because of 9/11 and tells that this is the time to decide whether this is the world one lives in.

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9.11: The New Evidence

Author: Ian Henshall
Publication Date: 30 August 2007

A sequel to "9/11 Revealed", this work examines the precedents of black operations by the US/UK, from Northern Ireland to Italy, from Vietnam to Kosovo. It looks at the various 9/11 theories, including the twists in the official story, and tests them against the evidence.

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The the russians

Author: Hedrick smith
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1976

journalistic account of ussr in 1970's...

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One Christmas in Washington
Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance

Author: David J. Bercuson
Publication Date: 10 November 2005

Features how in three weeks over Christmas 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt planned the Grand Alliance that won the Second World War.

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Tecumseh
A Life

Author: John Sugden
Publication Date: 6 May 1999

In the early years of the 19th century, Tecumseh, the legendary Shawnee chieftain, dreamed of welding the diverse North American tribes into a vast confederacy that could defend native culture from US aggression. This is his story.

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once they moved like the wind
Cochise, Geronimo and the Apache Wars

Author: David roberts
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1994

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P.S.
Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

Author: Studs Terkel
Publication Date: 12 February 2008

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The Aztecs
Rise and Fall of an Empire

Author: Serge Gruzinski
Publication Date: 21 September 1992

From the NEW HORIZONS series, a look at the Aztecs who created a refined society at the same time as carrying out mass human sacrifice, examining how these apparently contradictory aspects co-existed, and covering Aztec history from nomadic beginnings to the period of Spanish rule.

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Grace and Power
The Private World of the Kennedy White House

Author: Sally Bedell Smith
Publication Date: 11 May 2004

In November 2003 it will already be 40 years since the horrific assassination of President Kennedy. But the appeal of the Kennedys and their Camelot court remains as strong as ever, as the regular flow of books about them attests.

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America at War in Color
Unique Images of the American Experience of World War II

Author: Stewart Binns
Publication Date: 1 October 2001

"America at War in Color" is published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War II, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For over 50 years the war has been seen in black-and-white. Now, special research has unearthed a remarkable color record, much of which has never been seen before. 300 photos.

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Bush at War

Author: Bob Woodward
Publication Date: 7 July 2003

Award-winning author and journalist Bob Woodward gives the dramatic inside story of President Bush's response to the earth shattering events of September 11.

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