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The War Behind Me
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Deborah Nelson
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Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth
about U.S. War Crimes
Deborah Nelson joined forces with military historian Nick Turse to investigate an extraordinary archive: the largest compilation of records on Vietnam-era war crimes ever to surface. The declassified Army papers were erroneously released and have since been pulled from public circulation. Few civilians have seen the documents.
Torture of detainees was routine; so was the random killing of farmers in fields and women and children in villages. Punishment for these acts was either nonexistent or absurdly light. In most cases, no one was prosecuted at all.
In The War Behind Me Nelson goes beyond the documents and talks with many of those who were involved, both accusers and accused, to uncover their stories and learn how they deal with one of the most awful secrets of the Vietnam War ...
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Forgotten Patriots
The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
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Edwin Burrows
The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York’s British prison camps-and the nearly 20,000 patriots who lost their lives there
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The Sun and the Moon
The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
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Matthew Goodman
In the tradition of Devil in the White City and The War of the Worlds, the remarkable true story of the hoax that bewildered nineteenth-century America
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The Vertigo Years
Europe 1900-1914
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Philipp Blom
The old order gives way to the new in a vast panoramic history of Europe on the brink of the Great War
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Samuel Johnson
The Struggle
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Jeffrey Meyers
Just in time for the 300th anniversary of his birth, an authoritative new biography of the man who created the English language
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Salvation Boulevard
A Novel
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Larry Beinhart
The murder victim: an atheist. The accused: Muslim. The lawyer: Jewish. The detective: Born Again Christian. A thriller about death, faith, and God-from one of America’s best mystery writers
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Lion in the White House
A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
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Aida Donald
The extraordinary life of the man who reshaped the presidency and forged modern America-chronicled in an exhilarating, lyrical new biography
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