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  Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army

  Stephen Kurt Westmann

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  In this WWI military memoir, a German medical officer chronicles his harrowing exploits on both fronts of the Great War. 
   
  Born in 1893, Stephan Westmann was a medical student at Freiburg University when his country was drawn into the “war to end all wars.” In 1914, he left his medical studies to enlist in the German Army, and was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front. 
   
  Despite his youth and lack of qualification, Westmann was promoted to medical officer. He was given command of an ambulance train on the Western Front, where he treated and operated on wounded soldiers of all ranks and nationalities. He rescued both British and German soldiers after gas attacks on the trenches of the Somme. As medical officer to the German Air Force (von Richthofen Circus), Westmann saw the dangers and effects of aerial combat up close. He also witnessed the British tank attacks at Cambrai. 
   
  In this vivid chronicle, Westmann illustrates life and death on the front lines, capturing both the horrors of war and the humor that helped sustain him and his comrades.  
   
  Wartime photographs included.

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  Christopher Langan and the...

  J.-M. Kuczynski

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  For intellectuals, and probably others, one form of escapism is a kind of constricted and shallow hyper-realism—the hyper-realism of having a dead-end job, even though one has a PhD or an IQ of 170. And that sort of hyper-realism is pseudo-realism, because realism is not about having a bad life; it is having the courage to have a good life, which the intellectual with the dead end job does not have.

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  Day of Days

  Darren Canady

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  In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest by a deranged woman at a Harlem book signing. His recovery and three-hour conversation with the Black mystic Howard Thurman changed the course of Civil Rights history. This full-cast audiobook explores this conversation and the decades of revolution, community building, and lived experiences that preceded it.

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  The Gulf War - Operation Desert...

  Anthony Tucker-Jones

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  This photographic history of Operation Desert Storm vividly captures the drama and humanity of each stage of the conflict. In the early 1990s, the American military led a coalition of United Nations forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. With more than 180 color photographs, The Gulf War provides a remarkable visual account of the conflict, documenting the vast array of military equipment deployed by both sides in the air, at sea and on land. Author and military expert Anthony Tucker-Jones, who was an analyst for British Defense Intelligence at the time of the conflict, describes the armed forces that were ranged against each other, including troops, armored vehicles, artillery pieces and aircraft. He also offers a concise overview of key events, including the preliminary air campaign, the elimination of the Iraqi navy, the coalition's ground offensive, tank battles, the liberation of Kuwait City, and more.

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  South Yorkshire Pits

  Warwick Taylor

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  The last 150 years has been the most tumultuous in the industrial history of South Yorkshire, and at the heart of this has always been mining and its allied industries. South Yorkshire Pits takes us from the beginnings of the industry, where land ownership brought wealth from what lay beneath it. Here, we have a concise record of the sinking, operating and eventual closure of the pits which, in January 1947, were taken over by the National Coal Board. There is also a clear record of the social and employment conditions under which the mines were operated, including child and female labour and the legislation abolishing them. This is an indispensable reference work for all interested in South Yorkshire's mining industry.

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  Der Nister's Soviet Years -...

  Mikhail Krutikov

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  A critical look at the later work of the Russian Jewish author in the Soviet Union and its significance to Russian and Jewish history. 
   
  In Der Nister’s Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (1884–1950). Krutikov follows Der Nister’s painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist roots to social realism under severe ideological pressure from Soviet critics and authorities. This volume reveals how profoundly Der Nister was affected by the destruction of Jewish life during WWII and his own personal misfortunes. While Der Nister was writing a history of his generation, he was arrested for anti-government activities and died tragically from a botched surgery in the Gulag. Krutikov illustrates why Der Nister’s work is so important to understandings of Soviet literature, the Russian Revolution, and the catastrophic demise of the Jewish community under Stalin. 
   
  “Krutikov’s book on Der Nister will serve an important function, offering a strong, well-researched, and well-organized analysis of six significant periods in Der Nister’s writing. I expect it to inspire a great many new readers of Der Nister, inside and outside of academia.” —Amelia M. Glaser, author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop 
   
  “Among Soviet Yiddish writers, Der Nister occupies a unique place in literary history. Mikhail Krutikov’s meticulous analysis follows the transformation of the writer under the pressure of the Soviet ideological environment.” —Gennady Estraikh, author of Yiddish in the Cold War

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