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|  | Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker
This search and rescue story tells of the Coast Guard's effort to save the shipwrecked crew of the fishing vessel La Conte during a night storm in the Gulf of Alaska. AUTHOR: Spike Walker
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | How the News Makes Us Dumb by C. John Sommerville
This eye-opening book is for everyone dissatisfied with the state of the news media, but especially for those who think the news actually does inform them about and connect them with the real world. Read it and you may never again know the tyranny of the daily newspaper or the nightly news broadcast. AUTHOR: C. John Sommerville
PUBLISHER: InterVarsity Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Texas Ranger by J. Frank Dobie, N. A. Jennings, Stephen L. Hardin
Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the command of L. H. McNelly. At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas under Juan Cortina and others were raiding settlers on both sides of the Rio Grande. McNelly`s Rangers stormed into this lawless area for two reasons, according to Jennings: To have fun, and to carry out a set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans at every opportunity , which would gain them the reputation as fire-eating, quarrelsome daredevils and make their job of subduing the guerrillas an easier prospect. Within a short time the Rangers had arrested more than eleven hundred men and reputedly killed many more. Jennings records many a fight with the Mexican guerrillas, including the time when McNelly defied the United States government, crossed the Rio Grande, and fought Cortina and his raiders at Las Cuevas. Jennings also gives accounts of scrapes with King Fisher`s outlaw band, John Wesley Hardin, and the families involved in the Taylor-Sutton feud. Originally published in 1899, A Texas Ranger was reprinted in 1930 with a foreword by J. Frank Dobie, who defends the veracity of the account despite the fact that Jennings was not, as his story claims, a member of the company in its earliest years. In a new introduction to this edition, Stephen L. Hardin explores the authenticity of Jennings`s account and imparts the story of the feud that erupted between Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb over the publication of A Texas Ranger. AUTHOR: J. Frank Dobie, N. A. Jennings, Stephen L. Hardin
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Victory by Peter Schweizer
Details how the Reagan administration undermined the Soviet economy and dwindling resource base and subverted the Kremlin hold on its global empire. AUTHOR: Peter Schweizer
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Terrible Secret by Walter Laqueur
Description not available.Explores the Nazi extermination of the Jews between 1941 and 1942, particularly when the genocide became known and what the reactions were to this information AUTHOR: Walter Laqueur
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Battle for the Central Highlands by George Dooley
Description not available.A former Special Forces soldier remembers the hot, brutal battle for the Central Highlands of Vietnam, recalling fierce battles with the Viet Cong and NVA. Original. AUTHOR: George Dooley
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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