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The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows...

A chronicle of the Persian Gulf War from the first night's bombing runs through White House strategy sessions and the final days of the war.

Profusely illustrated text describes the history of World War II in Sweden and Finland.

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.

One of the most controversial and dangerous military operations in the history of modern warfare, the battle for Normandy took over two years of planning from each country that made up the Allied forces. Mired to this day in myth and misconception, untangling the web of work that led to D-Day is nearly as daunting as the work that led to the day itself. Drawing from declassified documents, personal interviews, diaries, and more, Carlo D'Este uncovers...

"In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant-as a member of the Workers Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, Orwells account of life in the trenches-with a democratic army composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons-and of his near fatal wounding, is painfully vivid and occasionally comic. As the politics became...

A biography of Adolf Hitler, based in part on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with people directly involved with his life.

"A summing up of the best of Terkel."--Herbert Mitgang, "Doubletake" "The Studs Terkel Reader," originally published under the title "My American Century," collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each work. Featuring selections from "American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "The Good War," The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race," and "Working," this "greatest hits"...

An account of GI's who fought in Europe during World War II. It captures the fear and exhilaration of combat, the hunger and cold and filth of foxholes, the intense world of the individual rifleman as well as the big picture of the European theater.

"In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, soon became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the lean, austere car magnate; on the other, the Amazon, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Indigenous...