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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
La Grande Révolution	Peter Kropotkin	xix , 610 p	OL1105346W
Debatable deaths	Gary L. Blackwood	"Explores the mystery surrounding the deaths of various historical figures: Tutkankhamen, the English Princes in the Tower, Christopher Marlowe, Mozart, Meriwether Lewis, and Amelia Earhart"--Provide…	OL121023W
The Boston Massacre	Keith Williams,Michael Burgan,Charles Barnett III,Bob Wiacek	Describes the Boston Massacre, the event when the American colonists believed that they had been treated unfairly for years by Great Britain, leading to a clashing with British troops.	OL15036979W
Fort Sumter	Michael Burgan	A look at the first battle of the Civil War which began at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.	OL15037010W
The Stamp Act of 1765	Dennis B. Fradin	"Covers the Stamp Act of 1765 as a watershed event in U.S. history, influencing social, economic, and political policies that shaped the nation's future"--Provided by publisher.	OL15050257W
The bombing of Pearl Harbor	Sue L. Hamilton	A brief description of events leading up to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 precedes fictionalized eyewitness accounts of the attack and its aftermath.	OL15081880W
Why nations fight	Richard Ned Lebow	"Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three a…	OL15118800W
El encuentro entre México y Estados Unidos, 1803-1848	René Zorrilla Vargas	Explores the earliest years of the uneasy relationship between Mexico, then a Spanish colony, and the United States, that began with the Louisiana Purchase and led up to war with newly independant Me…	OL15421476W
Riña de gatos	Eduardo Mendoza	Un inglés llamado Anthony Whitelands llega a bordo de un tren al Madrid convulso de la primavera de 1936. Deberá autenticar un cuadro desconocido, perteneciente a un amigo de José Antonio Primo de Ri…	OL15504297W
Royal sunset	Gordon Brook-Shepherd	xxii, 357 p., [16] p. of plates : 24 cm	OL15971137W
Skeletons in the closet	Stephen D. Cohle,Tobin T. Buhk	For more than two decades, Dr. Stephen D. Cohle has been solving vexing forensic mysteries as the medical examiner for Kent County, Michigan. As a whole, the cases he considers represent a cross-sect…	OL16311704W
Another century of war?	Gabriel Kolko	"The war in Afghanistan was apparently a decisive military triumph. But was it also a political failure? Gabriel Kolko, whose masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare a…	OL1633813W
Day of the assassins	Johnny O'Brien	Fifteen-year-old Jack is sent to 1914 Europe as a pawn in the battle between his long-lost father, who has built a time machine, and a secret network of scientists who want to prevent him from trying…	OL16345453W
The Second World War	Gordon Corrigan	In this major new military history, Gordon Corrigan argues what we refer to as the Second World War was in reality three separate conflicts: the Russian war, the Asian war in the Far East and Pacific…	OL16486679W
An Empire On the Edge	Nick Bunker	This book provides a British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution. It traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and econo…	OL17318115W
Three "whys" of the Russian Revolution	Richard Pipes	America's foremost authority on Russian communism--the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime--now addresses the enigmas of that country's 70-…	OL1746648W
Prelude to war	C. Carter Smith	Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the causes of the Civil War that developed between 1820 and 1861.	OL19614644W
Hold Everything Dear	John Berger	John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold E…	OL1980222W
Soldado de la revolucion Cubana	Luis Alfonso Zayas	The author recounts his experiences as a soldier during decades of revolution in Cuba.	OL19955783W
1858	Bruce Chadwick	"Highly recommended–a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical t…	OL2006709W