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"e;We Can Take It"e;, first published in 1935, is an early history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC, considered one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most successful New Deal programs, operated from 1933 to 1942 and pro...

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Bluejackets, first published in 1932, is a firsthand account by seaman Dom Pagano who served in Nicaragua in 1926-27. Pagano, a sailor attached to the Special Service Squadron of the U.S. Navy (a fleet of 5 ships based at the Panama Canal), was se...

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M-26: A Biography of the Cuban Revolution, first published in 1961, is a reporter's account of the overthrow of the Batista regime and Fidel Castro's successful rise to power. Author Robert Taber, a correspondent for CBS, details the political and...

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Border Guard, first published in 1963 by Pulitzer-winning journalist Don Whitehead, is a look at the efforts of the U.S. Customs Service (now U.S. Customs and Border Protection) to secure America's borders and ports of entry from illegal items and...

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Dawn like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy, first published in 1963, is the definitive account of the fledgling Navy and Marine Corps of the United States in the early 1800s. The book details the struggle of American ships ...

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The Dodgers and Me, first published in 1948, is Hall of Fame baseball player and manager Leo "e;The Lip"e; Durocher's account of his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Beginning with a history of the club and owner Charley Ebbets, to Duroch...

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The Tiger Wore Spikes, first published in 1956, is an insightful, down-to-earth look at the career of baseball great Tyrus "e;Ty"e; Cobb (1886-1961), who spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers (the last 6 years as the team's playermanage...

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Judge Landis and 25 Years of Baseball, first published in 1947, is a look at the career of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge and professional baseball's first commissioner, who served in that position for 25 years until his death in 1...

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A Hidden World, first published in 1963, recounts the nine years spent by Hungarian Raphael Rupert in the prison camps of Soviet Russia-the Gulag. At the time of his arrest in 1947, Rupert was working from the British Embassy in Budapest. His tria...

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Prisoner of the OGPU, first published in 1935, is a firsthand, absorbing account of the author's 4 years in the Soviet gulag (1928-32) at the hands of the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time, later renamed the NKVD, MGB, and KGB). ...

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El Campesino: Life and Death in the Soviet Union, first published in 1952, is the dramatic autobiographical account of Spanish revolutionary Valentin Gonzalez (1904-1983). The book (also titled Listen Comrades: Life and Death in the Soviet Union) ...

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The Grinding Mill, first published in 1935, is the exciting autobiographical account of the author's experiences in the heady times of Europe and Russia from 1913 to 1920, encompassing both World War I and the early chaotic days of the Russian Rev...

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I Led Three Lives: Citizen, Communist, Counterspy, first published in 1952, is a fascinating account of the author's infiltration into the American Communist party in the 1940's as a counterspy who then passed on his information to the FBI. Beginn...

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The Hidden Russia, first published in 1960, is a detailed recounting of the author's ten-years as a political prisoner inside the prisons and slave labor camps of the former Soviet Union. From the mock-trials and cells of the infamous Lubyanka, to...

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Discourse with Shadows, first published in 1958, is a stark, yet compassionate look at the lives of four Nazi concentration camp survivors and of a friend who returns to Frankfurt from England to locate a missing relative and her son Johann. Drive...

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Now with the Morning Star, first published in 1944, is a well-crafted account of life in Germany during World War II, beginning with life in a peaceful monastery. Soon, however, the Nazis arrive and one of the monks is arrested and subsequently in...

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Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust, first published in 1959, is a fictionalized account of Ida Loew, a young Jewish girl from Poland who survived the Jewish pogroms of the Nazis and the Auschwitz camp. The book opens with the girl at age 16 leaving her...

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Conquest to Nowhere, first published in 1955, is author Anthony Herbert's account of his harrowing time in Korea in 1950-51. Herbert, wounded numerous times, became America's most decorated soldier of the Korean conflict. He tells a gritty, heart-...

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Decision in Korea, first published in 1954, is, as the author states, "e;a reporter's survey"e; of the Korean conflict from its beginning through the first half year of the armistice. In scope, author Poats provides an excellent overview o...

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Operation Grasshopper first published in 1958, is the little-known yet vital story of U.S. Army Aviation operations during the Korean conflict. In contrast to the Air Force, Army "e;Grasshopper"e; pilots flew light, unarmed planes (especia...

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That Others May Live, first published in 2004, is an overview of U.S. Air Force operations to rescue downed airmen on land and at sea during the Korean War (1950-1953). At the beginning of the conflict, the Air Rescue Service was in its infancy, b...

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Asian Odyssey, first published in 1940, is the autobiographical account of Dmitri Alioshin's experiences in Siberia and Mongolia in the chaotic, often extremely violent times following the Russian Revolution. Alioshin, an officer in the Imperial A...

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On Celestial Wings, first published in 1995 recounts the training, deployment, and war-time experiences of a number of U.S. Air Force navigators during World War II. Included are 17 pages of photographs. Author Edgar Whitcomb (1917-2016) served as...

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Into Germany with the 100th Infantry Division, first published in 1959 as MOS 1542: A Dramatic True Story of Combat in World War Two, is the fast-paced account of Sergeant (later Lieutenant) John Angier's experiences as an infantryman in France an...

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Diary of a Kriegie is the personal account of United Press correspondent Edward Beattie following his capture in France and imprisonment by the Germans for the final eight months of the Second World War. Beattie was kept in a series of internment ...

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No Woman's World, first published in 1946, is the account of courageous war correspondent Iris Carpenter, one of the handful of female journalists covering the front-lines in Europe during the Second World War. Arriving four days after the D-Day l...

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This Is Our War, Too, first published in 1950 as Out of Bounds, is the story of one woman's experiences in the WAC's (Women's Army Corps), during the later days of World War Two. This Is Our War, Too unfolds in a fast-paced, often sassy manner, wi...

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The Far Shore, first published in 1960, is a classic account of the Allied D-Day landings in France in June 1944 by U.S. Navy Admiral and popular author Edward Ellsberg (1891-1983). Described in detail are the massive preparations for the invasion...

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Five Years, Five Countries, Five Campaigns, first published in 1945, is the account of the activities of the U.S. Army's 141st Infantry Regiment (36th Division) during World War II. Based in San Antonio Texas, and part of the Texas National Guard,...

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The Atomic Spies, first published in 1952, remains one of the best accounts of the Soviet atomic espionage rings operating in the U.S. during the 1940s and early 1950s. Tracing the lives of the major players working for the Soviets - Julius and Et...

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