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The Thirteenth Tribe: tracing the Ashkenazi Jews to the Khazars - a Turkic people

In this book, Arthur Koestler - proud himself of being an Ashkenazi Jew descendant of Khazars - describes the history of a long-vanished, Turkic people called the Khazars, whose ruler, faced with pressure from...

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Better than Bestsellers: Books to Read Now

 Historical novels often conjure dry prose -- or worse, bodice-ripping "heroes." The Widow's War, by Sally Gunning, sets a new standard. Gunning, a historian by trade, tells the story of Lyddie Berry, a new...

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The Conquest of Poverty by Gerald Grattan McGeer 1935

Table of Contents Conquest of Poverty Foreword I. Democracy or Money Power II. Money is Economic Power III. War and Usury IV. Signs of Emancipation V. ...

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THE HITLER I KNEW: A Young Girl’s Memoirs of WW II in Germany

If you're like me and always wonder how people could have fallen into the trap of Hitlerism, this book is interesting as a direct testimony of a real person who has been endoctrined by Nazism. I regret that at...

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Dreams to Be the Hero

  I dreamed to sail the seven seas to prove the world is never flat I want to be the hero Your history books will brag about.     I dreamed to fly the whole horizon To prove theres more...

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Of Paradise and Power

As the tag line “America and Europe in the new world order” suggests, the book Of Paradise and Power is Robert Kagan’s analysis of current transatlantic relations and the historical background which...

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We Interrupt This Broadcast

  Review By: William Salazar "We Interrupt This Broadcast" By Joe Garner Published by: Sourcebooks, Inc.           “We Interrupt This Broadcast” is moving...

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BOOKS: Eric Rauchway's Murdering Mckinley

The 21st Century socio-economic condition of the United States - the now - is characterized by terrorist attacks on the government, furtive in-system political discord, and illusory ‘rape' of the free...

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SLAVENKA DRACULIC'S S. a novel about balkans

Its a great novel .........a novel about the Balkans.In 1993 Croatian journalist Slavenka published "The Balkan Express: Fragments From the Other Side of War." Like Martha Gellhorn in earlier wars, she sent...

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Homework Help - History

Author's Ancestor's - Early 20th Century, EdinburghThis is the site where you will find many terrific resources about locating the information you need for use in the classroom, for homework help, and for...

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