Ottawa Tulip Festival
Friends from Maryland, Pennsylvania and downstate rendezvoused with us for a reunion before we all departed for the tulip festival, great times and good food. Canadian soldiers helped liberate the Netherlands during the Second World War. In ... [... more]
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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany. He is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles ... [... more]
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David Fishman
Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial This is the third volume (and the fourth chronologically) in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City ... [... more]
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Uncivil Society
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in ... [... more]
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Lary Bloom
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance ... [... more]
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Christopher Dodd
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance ... [... more]
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Thomas Mellins
Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial This is the third volume (and the fourth chronologically) in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City ... [... more]
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Second World War
 Second World War: I have the hard-cover edition. I think I bought it in 1990. It is by far the best history of WW2 that I have read. I have read it 3 times over the years and have lent it out to several friends with my recommendations. It is time I read [... more]
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The Second World War: A Short History
Wonderfully Concise Yet Comprehensive History Of WWII!: For serious students of the WWII era wishing to have a handy, concise, and yet quite comprehensive overview of the Second World War and its times by way of a one-volume effort, this is the book to [... more]
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A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War
What does it take to win a war?: 'In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare.' Thus begins [... more]
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Memoirs of the Second World War
TOO MUCH DETAIL OMITTED: I was disappointed with this abridged history since I had already read the six volume set and loved it for all its rich detail and atmosphere. This one-volume abridged edition left me a little flat. So much had been taken out to [... more]
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Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate ...
An important uneven work.: More than one in eight Soviets died during the second world war. That this was an incredibly traumatic event has been apparent to all for decades. But what did this experience mean to the post-war Soviet Union in terms of its [... more]
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