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#1 On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland with fifty-eight divisions, fourteen of which were armored or motorized. Poland put into the field only thirty divisions, mostly cavalry and infantry, with just one motorized brigade.
#2 The Polish General Staff, led by Romer, had unrealistic strategic ideas stemming from a foreign policy that had seen Soviet Russia as the...
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Get the Summary of Chris Begley's The Next Apocalypse in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In, The Next Apocalypse, archaeologist Chris Begley argues that we completely misunderstand how disaster works. Examining past collapses of civilizations, such as the Maya and Rome, he argues that these breakdowns are actually less about cataclysmic destruction than they are about long processes...
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Get the Summary of Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations...
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#1 The Wall Street Poker Night Tournament was held on March 8, 2006. More than a hundred well-heeled players attended the event, including elite traders and buttoned-down dealmakers. The small, private affair was a gathering of a select group of wealthy and brilliant individuals.
#2 By the early 2000s, quants had come to dominate Wall Street, using brain-twisting math...
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#1 The hostess, Barbara Wainscott, had a fastidious sense of detail. She set out mirrored dinner tables that reflected the richly appointed place settings and the glittering jewels on the ladies. She ordered a nursery's worth of roses, lilacs, crocuses, and lilies of the valley to festoon every empty space.
#2 Barbara had been preparing her whole life for this party....
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#1 The first courtroom appearance of Patrick Henry Jr. was in the Parsons' Cause, a case that had religious and political implications for both Virginia and England. If Henry lost the case, many would lose their homes and lands.
#2 Patrick Henry was a lawyer, and he was assigned to represent the plaintiff in the trial. He had three previous careers that had...
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#1 As a child, Mary may not have realized that she was enslaved, as white and Black children were often allowed to play together. But as she grew up, she would be given jobs to do, and by the time she was ten years old, she was doing the same work as grown women.
#2 Slavery in Virginia was similar to that in other states, in that it was common for enslaved people to...
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#1 This book takes us through one day in the life of Hadrian's Rome, with the city seen from the different perspectives of twenty-four of its inhabitants. The people are the city: the buildings and monuments that tourists admire are secondary, important only as the physical echo of the people who built and lived among them.
#2 The city of Rome was more than just a collection...
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Get the Summary of Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."
The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...
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#1 The destroyers trailed a net behind them as they steamed southwards, leading the Japanese cruiser to believe they were retreating. When they turned north to attack, the giant ship was there.
#2 The flotilla leader was attacked by the cruiser and the destroyer that were following her. The noise of the battle was intense, with men shouting and banging on each other's...
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#1 The British Empire was rising, and the forward policy ruled in India. General Sir Hugh Gough gave a ball at the military outpost of Ambala, northern India, on the night of the tenth of December, 1845. The music, the ritual, and the pleasure of such gatherings inevitably awoke memories of England.
#2 The British went to war with the Sikhs, five thousand miles from...
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#1 The original holy trinity of the Asian spice trade was pepper, clove, and nutmeg. Pepper was used extensively by the Romans and was the primary ingredient in their cuisine.
#2 The Romans used coins denominated in Pepper, but they were actually paid out in large numbers. The cost of pepper was so high and so much in demand that the Romans had to drain their empire...
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#1 As the earth rotates, the light of the sun moves from the gray and pale blue of the Pacific onto the forests and fields of Japan and Luzon. In the seething energy and hard-won order of the streets of Edo, the great capital city of Japan's hereditary military dictators, the heavy wooden gates of residential quarters are swung open.
#2 The world in a single year is...
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#1 The appearance of Mr. Smith as he comes to the breakfast table in 1919 is very different from that of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 1919. The movement of men's fashions is glacial, but Mrs. Smith's suit has become even shorter since 1919, and she has never heard of such dark arts as face-lifting.
#2 The first tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News, was not released until...
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#1 The Olmecs were a civilization that emerged in southcentral Mexico around 1400 BCE. They were the most developed and powerful nation in Mesoamerica for about one thousand years. But then, just as suddenly as they appeared, they disappeared into the thick Mexican jungles.
#2 The Olmecs were a civilization that lived in what is now Mexico. They were Forgotten for almost...
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#1 Murrow was a CBS radio newsman who had just returned from a meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House. He had heard the first news flashes about the Pearl Harbor raid. He and his wife, Janet, went to the White House for dinner.
#2 Roosevelt asked Murrow and Donovan whether they thought the attack was a clear case of a first Japanese...
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#1 The German state of Brandenburg has a village green on which communal events are celebrated, and the Brandenburg Gate is the setting for all great national events. The Gate was originally built as a monument to peace, but it has become a symbol of the division of Germany and the world into two blocs.
#2 The first person to use the Brandenburg Gate for a triumphal...
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#1 In 1947, Vail Ennis was the sheriff of Beeville, Texas, and he killed seven men in under a month. His death would gray the memory of his own killings.
#2 The American Café in Beeville, Texas, in 1947, was the last gathering of the old-style sheriffs of Texas. They were ribbed about their hunting skills, but they knew about guns and knew how they could do damage.
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Get the Summary of Jennet Conant's 109 East Palace in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "109 East Palace" by Jennet Conant chronicles the life of Dorothy McKibbin, a key figure in the Manhattan Project, and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. Dorothy, a widow with a young son, takes a secretarial job in Santa Fe, unknowingly becoming part of the project led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The...
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#1 In 2001, the Taliban were still extremely fierce. They drove into the heart of the enemy camp, inside the high walls and inner courtyards of the Qala-i-Janghi, the House of War.
#2 I was among a group of Western journalists who jostled forward as the Taliban car door opened.
#3 In 2001, the Taliban had come close to achieving their goal of establishing...
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