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Book Preview: #1 Russia is vast, and its leaders must consider the implications of its vast size. The North European Plain running from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south is only 300 miles wide, but it stretches from western France to northern Germany.
#2 The Russian Far East is protected by geography. It is difficult to move an army from Asia up...
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#1 In June 1915, Dr. H. M. Hanschell was asked to go to the Admiralty and see Commander Spicer-Simson. He knew Spicer well, and he was a Naval Officer who was extremely devoted to his career. He was extremely disappointed when he was passed over for younger men.
#2 The Doctor was assigned to the Admiralty in August 1914. He had just been promoted to Senior Naval Officer...
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Book Preview: #1 The first man to transform a democracy into a dictatorship was Mussolini, who created fascism. He understood that the world would never be the same after the war, and old parties and the old men who ruled them would be swept aside.
#2 Fascist regimes disrupted the existing field of politics, putting two things together that were supposed to be opposites: nationalism...
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#1 I am in New Hampshire just over a month later, and it's raining. Twenty feet across from me, on the other side of a backyard pool, Donald Trump is scolding me. How does he even know my name.
#2 I came back to America because of a boy named Aaron, a severely ill teen who asked to shadow me for a day through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
#3 Trump was so unexpected that...
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#1 The old man had a lot on his mind that night, including the hospital visit the next morning. He had woken up numerous times, checking the clock, and was impatient for the new day to begin so he could order the flowers.
#2 The old woman, Ma, retched tragically. Her son-in-law, John Hill, watched her and did not help her. She told him not to wake her husband, who would...
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#1 The problem of how to use Special Intelligence, which was code-named ULTRA, was especially acute at sea, where the Admiralty traditionally exercised only remote control and gave the local Commander-in-Chief all the forces and intelligence he needed. But ULTRA eventually gave the Admiralty an unprecedented overall view of the enemy's naval operations and intentions.
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#1 Sydney Bowles was fourteen years old when she first set eyes on David Freeman Mitford. He was seventeen, classically handsome, and with luminous blue eyes. She felt all the natural frustration of a teenager wanting to look older to impress him, but she was miserably aware that her outfit labeled her a child.
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#1 The first thermonuclear bomb was tested on May 8, 1951. It was a small prototype device, known as George, that was exploded three months later. Then, on November 1, 1952, the first true thermonuclear test weapon, known as Mike, was detonated.
#2 The islands that would be used for the test were first spotted by an English seafarer named John Marshall in the eighteenth...
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#1 On January 7, 1889, an unlikely couple crossed the Hudson River from Manhattan to Paterson, New Jersey, to be married. Robert Ray Hamilton and Eva Brill were improbable candidates to become husband and wife. The birth of their first child out of wedlock provided the impetus for Ray to marry Eva.
#2 Ray and Eva's wedding was different from the typical couples Reverend...
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#1 On May 27, 1978, twenty-six-year-old Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle was brutally attacked and murdered in her home on South Lemacks Street in Walterboro, South Carolina. She had babysat for her friends the night before she was murdered, and her roommate and friend Billy O'Bryant rushed her to the police station. She had been severely beaten and possibly sexually assaulted.
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#1 The new century did not begin until 1901, so the Witts were a year too early. But the idea that 1900 was a milestone, a time to relish past accomplishments and thrill to the promise of the future, was widespread.
#2 The country was experiencing good times in 1899. The Portland Oregonian called 1899 the most prosperous year Oregon has ever known. The Cheyenne...
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Get the Summary of Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Reign of Terror will show how these policies created a foundation for American authoritarianism and, though it is not a book about Donald Trump, it will provide a critical explanation of his rise to power and the sources of his political strength. It will show that Barack Obama squandered an opportunity...
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#1 We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We look for the sermon in the suicide, the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices, and live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
#2 I was meant to have a script, but I didn't. I was meant to know the plot, but...
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#1 The question of whether or not to study medicine was raised with Elizabeth by Mary Donaldson, a neighbor who was dying of advanced uterine cancer. Elizabeth hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book.
#2 The practice of medicine in the first half of the 1800s was a gruesome business. Doctors would treat diseases with toxic metals, such...
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Get the Summary of Michael C. Bender's Frankly, We Did Win This Election in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, Frankly, We Did Win This Election chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum...
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#1 The Egyptian prayer against the night-demon is a example of how people have been afraid of the dark and of what may come out of the dark. The Scottish prayer against ghosties and ghoulies was a charm designed to protect children.
#2 The Egyptian goddesses Isis, Nephthys, and Meskhenet were the wives and sisters of Osiris. They were the ones who delivered Reddjetet's...
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Get the Summary of Henry Kissinger's World Order in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-madvising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger...
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#1 The port of Gotenhafen, in East Prussia, was a major hub for the German evacuation effort. It had come under Nazi control in 1939 after the Third Reich invaded Poland. The Germans renamed the seaside city after the Goths, an ancient German tribe.
#2 The Wilhelm Gustloff was a German ship that was used as a hospital ship during World War II. It was used to transport...
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Get the Summary of Rebecca Boggs Roberts's Untold Power in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Untold Power" by Rebecca Boggs Roberts chronicles the life of Edith Bolling, who was born into a family with a proud lineage but diminished wealth post-Civil War. Raised with Confederate ideologies, Edith's early life in Virginia was marked by a strong family influence and a desire for more than her provincial upbringing...
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