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- Canadian art in the twentieth century / by Murray, Joan;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Painting, Canadian; Painting, Modern;
- © c1999. , Dundurn Press,
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- War since 1900 / by Black, Jeremy.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-277) and index.LSC- Subjects: War; Military art and science; Military history, Modern;
- © 2010., Thames & Hudson,
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- Conflict : the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine / by Petraeus, David Howell,author.; Roberts, Andrew,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan, and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and the challenge, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems, theories and strategies"--- Subjects: Military art and science; Military art and science; Military history, Modern; Military history, Modern;
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- Life as a combat soldier / by Williams, Brian,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Military history, Modern; Soldiers;
- © 2006., Heinemann Library,
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- War is a force that gives us meaning / by Hedges, Chris.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Hedges, Chris.; Military history, Modern; War (Philosophy);
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- King of Kings : The Iranian Revolution : A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation. by Anderson, Scott.;
'King of Kings' is a revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism. From the author of 'Lawrence of Arabia', an international bestseller which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a NYT Notable Book.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; HISTORY / Middle East / Iran; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century;
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- Magnum revolution : 65 years of fighting for freedom / by Anderson, Jon Lee.; Watson, Paul,1959-;
Culled from the archives of the prestigious Magnum Photos founded by Henri Cartier Bresson, this collection of images from internationally renowned photographers is a compelling record of the recent decades of worldwide revolution.LSC- Subjects: Magnum Photos, inc; Revolutions; History, Modern; History, Modern;
- © c2012., Prestel Pub.,
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- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary Cold War / by White, Duncan,1979-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to exile, imprisonment or execution if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union had secret agents and vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turning on each other, lovers cleaved by political fissures, artists undermined by inadvertent complicities. In Cold Warriors, Harvard University's Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book has at its heart five major writers--George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene and Andrei Sinyavsky--but the full cast includes a dazzling array of giants, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carr, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, Arthur Koestler, Vaclav Havel, Joan Didion, Isaac Babel, Howard Fast, Lillian Hellman, Mikhail Sholokhov--and scores more. Spanning decades and continents and spectacularly meshing gripping narrative with perceptive literary detective work, Cold Warriors is a welcome reminder that, at a moment when ignorance is celebrated and reading seen as increasingly irrelevant, writers and books can change the world.- Subjects: Biographies.; Cold War in literature.; Politics and literature.; Authors; Literature, Modern;
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- The guns of August ; The proud tower / by Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim; MacMillan, Margaret.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-507 and p. 1101-1162) and index.- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; History, Modern;
- © 2012., Library of America ,
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- The Last Kilo Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America [electronic resource] : by English, T. J..aut; cloudLibrary;
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami. Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the cocaine business. It was corruption: the dirty cops, agents, lawyers, judges, and politicians who made the drug world go round. And no one managed that carousel of dangerous players better than Willy Falcon. A Cuban exile whose family escaped Fidel Castro’s Cuba when he was eleven years old, Falcon, as a teenager, became active in the anti-Castro movement. He began smuggling cocaine into the U.S. as a way to raise money to buy arms for the Contras in Central America. This counter-revolutionary activity led directly to Willy’s genesis as a narco. He and his partners built an extraordinary international organization from the ground up. Los Muchachos, the syndicate founded by Falcon, thrived as a major cocaine distribution network in the U.S. from the late 1970’s into the early 1990’s. At their height, Los Muchachos made more than a hundred million dollars a year. At the same time, Willy, his brother Tavy Falcon, and partner Sal Magluta became famous as championship powerboat racers. Cocaine, used by everyone from A-list celebrities to lawyers and people in law enforcement, came to define an era, and for a time, Willy Falcon and those like him—major suppliers, of whom there were only a few—became stars in their own right. They were the deliverers of good times, at least until the downside of persistent cocaine use became apparent: delusions of grandeur, psychological addiction, financial ruin. Thus, the War on Drugs was born, and federal authorities came after Falcon and his crew with a vengeance. Willy found himself on the run, his marriage and family life in shambles, the halcyon days of boat races and lavish trips to Vegas and parties at the Mutiny night club seemingly a distant memory. T. J. English has been granted unprecedented access to the inner workings of Los Muchachos, sitting down with Willy Falcon and his associates for many lengthy interviews, and revealing never-before-understood details about drug trafficking. A classic of true-crime writing from a master of the genre, The Last Kilo traces the rise and fall of a true cocaine empire—and the lives left in its wake.- Subjects: Electronic books.; 20th Century; Criminals & Outlaws; Organized Crime; Latin America;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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