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The Balfour Declaration - Jonathan Schneer
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a Nat... -
Starvation Heights - Gregg Olsen
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary 'fasting treatment' of ... -
Smonk - Tom Franklin
From Publishers WeeklyE.O. Smonk is an ugly, unwashed, murdering rapist who has terrorized the small town of Old Texas, Ala., for years. In 1911, the town summons Smonk to stand tr... -
Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan; Richard Hol
From Publishers WeeklyA joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "j... -
O Jerusalem - Laurie R. King
SUMMARY: At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspice... -
Moscow, December 25, 1991_ The - Conor O'Clery
ReviewPublishers Weekly, June 15, 2011“Shrewd political history.... O’Clery presents a colorful human-scale saga, full of pathos and pettiness. (As Gorbache... -
Island Madness - Tim Binding
SUMMARY: It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning ... -
Interesting Times_ A Twentieth- - Eric J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account... -
In Every Heartbeat - Kim Vogel Sawyer
FromIt’s 1914, on the brink of the Great War, when three longtime friends who grew up together in an orphanage are awarded scholarships to the University of Southern Missouri. But ... -
Hetty_ The Genius and Madness o - Charles Slack
From BooklistHetty Green (1835-1916) was the only woman to make her mark in the financial markets during the Guilded Age of the late 1800s. She parlayed an inheritance of $500,000 ...