Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the...
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was a Viking Hero--dashing, brave, and ever so clever. But even Viking heroes have to begin somewhere. In this rip-roaring adventure he recounts his early days--when he still had a lot to learn about swordfights,...
HITLER CALLED IT THE "ZONE OF DESTINY" AND HE'D RISK HIS ENTIRE NAVY TO SMASH THROUGH IT.
X-Day, February 11,1942. In the pre-dawn darkness a massive fleet of German battleships, destroyers and escort ships steamed out of France for the...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
“A harrowing story. A worthy supplement to the reports of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.”
- Kirkus Reviews
“This is a fascinating story of survival against the worst of odds.”
- JT News
A searing, brutal...
Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; and the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one,...
In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson’s original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik...
The Order of...
War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi eugenics of Hitler and Mengele—and then created...
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War [How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time]
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess...