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Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with wit, balance, and insight, Thomas presents a compelling narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history, capturing in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offering unprecendented, in-depth portraits of legendary opponents Montezuma and Cortes. Photos & maps. AUTHOR: Hugh Thomas
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Greatest Generation Speaks by Tom Brokaw
In this collection of letters to Tom Brokaw, members of the generation that came of age during World War II respond to his best-selling THE GREATEST GENERATION, expanding on and deepening the material in the previous book. AUTHOR: Tom Brokaw
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: History
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 | Pork Chop Hill by S. L. A. Marshall
Description not available.A firsthand account of frontline combat during the Korean War chronicles the courageous valor of a handful of U.S. riflemen, who held their posts on Pork Chop Hill against overwhelming odds. Reissue. AUTHOR: S. L. A. Marshall
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Life Inside the Merchant Marine Academy by Magdalena Alagna
Description not available.Explores the challenges and rewards of attending the United States Merchant Marine Academy in King's Point, New York, where individuals are trained to become Merchant Marine officers. AUTHOR: Magdalena Alagna
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Civil Rights Childhood by Jordana Y. Shakoor
Two voices blend in this poignant memoir from the Civil Rights era in Mississippi-a father's and a daughter's. He was Andrew L. Jordan, a son in a dirt-poor family of sharecroppers near Greenwood. Jordana Shakoor is his little girl who grew up to write this book. In her southern childhood she is just becoming aware of her people's dreadful predicament of loving their homeland but of hating its mistreatment of blacks. Like virtually all other southern black families, the Jordans endured humiliation and fear of white reprisals. The child states that her father rejected the ugly Jim Crow tradition and aimed at achieving an improbable dream in black Mississippi -- to become a schoolteacher. First, he served as a colored soldier in the armed forces. Then he returned home to marry in 1955, an especially ominous year in the calendar of black southerners (the heinous murder of the black northern teenager Emmitt Till occurred then). Jordan got his education with aid from the GI Bill and realized his dream of teaching. But it wasn't enough. Beginning to live according to his conscience, he joined his life to the Civil Rights Movement. At first he moved behind the scenes and then worked openly in mass meetings and voter registrations. For his activism he lost his job and, unemployable at home, he was driven from Mississippi. In Ohio his family merged into the American middle class. When the daughter was twelve, Jordan let her read his fascinating memoir. It made her proud. When she was thirty-five, her father died. By the time she was forty she had begun to intertwine their two stories and their two voices. In a loving reminiscence of her childhood and family influences in Mississippiduring a time of danger and strife, Civil Rights Childhood unites their two lives and their histories. The voices in this book tell a story whose theme is familiar to legions of African Americans. Yet its particular voices, until now, have gone unheard. Though this is told by a child born in the AUTHOR: Jordana Y. Shakoor
PUBLISHER: University Press of Mississippi
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Oklahoma City Memorial
Description not available.Describes the events surrounding the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the memorial created to honor the victims.
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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