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The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948

By Laila Parsons - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

An Iron Cross recipient for service in WWI, Fawzi al-Qawuqji was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, and trained by the Ottomans in the early 1900...Read Review

Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution

By Thomas P. Slaughter - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson that America’s Revolution “was in the minds of the people, and this was effected between 1760 to 1775, ...Read Review

The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America

By Dwight Jon Zimmerman - By Wayne Vansant (illus.) - Published 2012

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Most Americans know the story of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from 1861 to his death by assassination in 1865. Some have ...Read Review

Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capital and the Coming of the Civil War

By Guy Gugliotta - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

Freedom’s Cap is a remarkable historical narrative about the building of the nation’s capitol with a simultaneous counterpoint to the tearing ...Read Review

The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

By David J. Silbey - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

They called it the “Great Game,” the game played by imperialist nations competing for lucrative trade and commercial privileges in less developed nations. ...Read Review

The Boy: A Holocaust Story

By Dan Porat - Published 2011

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Biographical Fiction

Of all the photos taken of the Holocaust, none was more haunting to historian Dan Porat than one taken by a Nazi photographer ...Read Review