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Adrift on an Ice Pan Sir Wilfred Grenfell In 1908 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a medical missionary in northern Newfoundland, was traveling by dog team to treat a patient. Grenfell’s own account of his near-fatal misadventure. £8.99 » More Info
Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters From America: The 1940s & 1950s Alistair Cooke A selection of Alistair Cooke’s finest radio Letters in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts. £12.75 » More Info
Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters From America: The 1970s Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly Letter from America. This selection of letters includes Cooke's reports on momentous events. £18.75 » More Info
Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 1990s Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke’s finest radio reportage from 1991-1999. £18.75 » More Info
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	Truman David McCullough £11.99 5 hours 30 minutes Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured... » More Info				An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson £11.99 7 hours In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa. » More Info



	D-Day Stephen E. Ambrose £11.99 6 hours They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits... » More Info				Citizen Soldiers Stephen E. Ambrose £11.99 5 hours Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches... » More Info

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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer
Shirer’s monumental study offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world.£36.99

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of a major, yet little-known, civil rights figure.£14.75

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Hollywood Studios, The: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies

Ethan Mordden
Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. It was the Golden Age of the movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution.£16.99

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Big Burn, The: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America

Timothy Egan
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.£18.49

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Call To Conscience, A: The Address to the First MIA Mass Meeting

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
From the "Call to Conscience" collection, "The Address to the First MIA Mass Meeting" took place in in December 1955 shortly after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.£1.49

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Price of Freedom

Alex Domokos with Rita Y. Toews
Domokos’s wrote this memoir of his years during and after World War II to enlighten others about the tragic effects of the war on his homeland, Hungary.£15.49

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