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English
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McPherson reconstructs the gripping Battle of Antietam, which remains the single bloodiest day in the history of American combat. Through historical newspaper accounts and the personal letters of soldiers, the events leading up to the battle and the battle itself are stunningly re-created.
11) The Bay of Pigs
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xvi, 237 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 475 pages, [32 pages of plates] : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research. Jones evokes the horror of the event itself, the attempt to suppress it, as well as the response to Calley's sentence and the seemingly unanswerable question of whether he had merely been following orders. My Lai also surveys how news of the slaughter intensified...
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