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The Fourth Crusade: And The Sack of Constantinople 27 reviews
Jonathan Phillips
Pimlico, 2005
Good pace, excellent clarity
+ Excellent history of a Crusading misfire
+ Incredible History
+ Good Popular History of the Sack of Constantinople
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On Lynchings (Classics in Black Studies) 1 review
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Humanity Books, 2002
THE WHOLE TRUTH
This is another book ÄBOUT TIME!" The truth to be known about this heroic lady, and how times haven't changed. This is a book that should be required reading in schools.
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust374 reviews
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Hay House, 2007
Could I do it?
+ Left to tell
+ Left To Tell Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
+ Anything is possible...
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Bubonic Plague (Robbie Readers) (Robbie Readers)
Jim Whiting
Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2006
In the middle of the fourteenth century, a terrible and mysterious plague swept across Europe and Asia. One in every three Europeans died during the five years that it terrified the continents. People tried all sorts of ways to avoid catching the Black Death. They carried flowers, burned incense, fired cannons, and rang church bells. They nailed whole families in their homes to try to keep the ...
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666 9 reviews
Neil Hanson
John Wiley & Sons, 2002
A Nice Popular History
+ A Dramatic Read
+ Maps
This is a history for the nonhistorian. That is not meant as a criticism. It is meant as a selling point. There are not thousands of footnotes, but do you really read those things? This book should interest historians, people who travel frequently to London and the general reading public who are ...
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Lynching Photographs (Defining Moments in American Photography)1 review
Dora Apel, Shawn Michelle Smith
University of California Press, 2008
Hung up on lynching.
Yeah, well, how many books could there be about this topic? Morbidly fascinating. Nothing like having a well-rounded library, Dewey.
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After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (Interdisciplinary Studies in History)2 reviews
George Huppert
Indiana University Press, 1998
European society before the modern age
+ Entertaining but one sided
Huppert provides the best quick introduction to how European society _really worked_ before the industrial age. He starts with the village and the family, then moves to cities, elites, and the way things (slowly, slooooowly) changed. The book does a great job of combining big slow processes with ...
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance32 reviews
Larry Gonick
W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
There is only one thing wrong--
+ The educational comic: oxymoron no more!!
+ Fun and Brilliant at the Same Time - Great for the History Buff
+ Another goodie
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America52 reviews
Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, ...
Twin Palms Publishers, 2000
Profound Metaphor, for the graphic brutality of Slavery in America
+ My great uncle
+ "AWAKENING AND HEART BREAKING "
+ A lesson for all of us.
+ without sanctuary
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Cartoon History of the Universe 2: Volumes 8-1336 reviews
Larry Gonick
Main Street Books/Doubleday, 1994
The universe in comics... finally...
+ From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome
+ my favorite of the series
+ Great Service!
+ Great Book!
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100 Years of Lynchings11 reviews
Ralph Ginzburg
Black Classic Press, 1996
Still Relevant Today
+ 100 years of lynching
+ TRUE HISTORY
+ LYNCHING: America' most important, and most denied, CRIME.
+ 100 Years of Hell
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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers30 reviews
Filip Muller
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999
Riviting
+ "Eyewitness Auschwitz is an exceptionally graphic, in-depth re-telling by Filip Muller" BCM
+ Powerful indictment of Nazi Germany
+ Excellant
+ Love it!
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Rashi 2 reviews
Maurice Liber
Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2006
Buy the Dybbuk Press Version
Ok I have published Rashi and Merely Mary Ann at the same time, because I'll be publishing Michael Boatman's horror anthology and The Big Bow Mystery later this year and I want to devote as much time as possible to promotion of those books.
In writing a review, I know that I have essentially ...
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Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime in America 5 reviews
Hickman Powell
Barricade Books, 2000
A Noted Secondary Source
+ A Wonderful Piece of History
Powell's documentation is basically correct based on the bare facts of the story found in New York City tabloid newspapers and in archived files. As such, it is a rare secondary source into the lives and legends of the prostitutes, bookers and madams who formed the web of prostitution used at ...
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The Black Death: A Personal History5 reviews
John Hatcher
Da Capo Press, 2008
As If a Reporter Were on the Scene
+ A Better Understanding of the Plague and its Impact
+ Good book, but did you know part is fiction?
+ Could not put it down
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Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived2 reviews
Lyn Smith
Basic Books, 2007
Painful personal testimonies of the Shoah
+ Survivers of the Holocaust tell their stories
Lyn Smith is to be highly commended for the work she did in putting together this volume. She interviewed tens of survivors of the Shoah, and presents their testimony in segments gathered around specific themes. Many of the paragraph- length testimonies are soul- shaking.
I was particularly moved ...
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-199524 reviews
Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens
Fantagraphics Books, 2002
The genocide of Muslims by Christians in the 1990s
+ Most insightful book on everyday life during the Bosnian War yet
+ Great read, very unique look at life in a war zone
I just finished reading this brilliant work. I was in Eastern Europe in 1991-1993 and saw the refugees coming out of Bosnia. I followed the story as close as I could, even visting a refugee camp. But Sacco's illustrations put me on the ground in the supposed safe zones. The brutality of the ...
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The Luciano Story3 reviews
Sid Feder, Joachim Joesten
Da Capo Press, 1994
A fairly good book
This book does provide the reader with a basic insight of Lucianos life.It has been well written but the facts seem to be a bit out of place.A few incidents seem to be exagerated by the author and the reader gets the feeling that its not a book but more like a story from the news paper. A good ...
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Lynching in the West: 18501935 (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)
Ken Gonzales-Day
Duke University Press, 2006
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. The majority were perpetrated against Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans; ...
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The Rwanda Crisis8 reviews
Gérard Prunier
Columbia University Press, 1997
Eclipsed, but important
+ The Only Sensible Deconstruction I've Read
+ An amazing book
+ A horrifying report on how we humans behave
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