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The fringes of power: 10 Downing Street diaries, 1939-1955
Par John Rupert Colville. 1986
A firsthand look behind the scenes at Winston Churchill's 10 Downing Street in the form of a diary kept by…
the great man's private secretary, Sir John Colville. The diarist sees Churchill as an incomparable fighter--generous, but inconsiderate to his staff--and as a statesman of soaring vision. Bestseller 1986
The blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East
Par Jimmy Carter. 1985
Carter's experiences negotiating the Camp David Accords, his visits to the Middle East, and portraits of Arab and Israeli leaders.…
The former president maintains that peace in the Middle East must be based on Israeli recognition of the Palestinians' right to self-determination and Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist. Bestseller 1985
The Canadians
Par Andrew H Malcolm. 1985
A former Toronto bureau chief of the "New York Times" and the son of Canadians, Malcolm provides a wide-ranging view…
of the world's second largest nation. Draws on interviews and personal recollections to describe Canada's people, economy, and close ties to the United States
In kindling flame: the story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944
Par Linda Atkinson. 1985
Hannah Senesh emigrates to Palestine from her native Hungary on the eve of World War II, when she is eighteen…
years old. Four years later, she returns to her homeland on a British-sponsored mission to free Allied airmen and rescue Hungarian Jews--including her beloved mother. Using poems, letters, and diaries, Atkinson presents a woman of remarkable courage. For junior and senior high readers
No more Vietnams
Par Richard M Nixon. 1985
History of the Vietnam War by the former president sets out to dispel the myths of Vietnam and to show…
why the United States failed there. Nixon analyzes the roles of four presidents, the military, the Congress, the media, and the antiwar movement in the Vietnam debacle, and he recommends a course of action for the United States to avoid future Vietnams
An Indian attachment
Par Sarah Lloyd. 1984
While traveling in India, an Englishwoman establishes a relationship with a young Sikh and eventually spends two years living with…
him. Lloyd's account offers an intense view of daily rituals and humdrum realities in rural India
Emma Goldman: an intimate life
Par Alice Wexler. 1984
Using Goldman's personal correspondence, which reveals her feelings and fantasies, Wexler traces the anarchist's flamboyant career. She depicts the private…
Emma behind the public legend as she traces Goldman's role in the militant labor struggles
The Incas (A First book)
Par Barbara L Beck. 1983

A time for trumpets: the untold story of the Battle of the Bulge
Par Charles Brown MacDonald. 1985
A former Army historian offers a detailed account of "the greatest battle ever fought by Americans." It opens as Hitler…
sets in motion preparation for the epic campaign whose objective was the seizure of Antwerp and closes with the story of the postwar revenge-murder of Joachim Peiper, who led the spearheading panzer unit and commanded the troops
Winston Churchill: a biography
Par Piers Brendon. 1984
Brendon evokes the "animal vitality, rich self-approval and wicked good humor" of an irascible political genius who first came to…
prominence when Queen Victoria was still on the throne. An aristocrat and romantic who loved polo, fine food, and wines, Churchill recognized the great causes of his era
Texas cowboys: memories of the early days
Par Jim Lanning, Judy Lanning. 1984

Up in the park: the diary of the wife of the American ambassador to Ireland, 1977-1981
Par Elizabeth Shannon. 1983
Memoirs of the wife of the Carter administration's ambassador to Ireland, who arrived at the official residence in Dublin's Phoenix…
Park aiming "to be dignified without being pompous and to be informal without being fatuous." A portrait of the Irish scene conveyed with perception and affection
The Bay of Pigs: the leaders' story of Brigade 2506
Par Haynes Bonner Johnson. 1964

Charles & Diana
Par Ralph G Martin. 1985
Describes "the greatest royal romance of our time," the story of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Martin provides a…
detailed account of their genealogies, discusses the childhood and young adulthood of each, and tells of their romance, wedding, and matrimonial life. He further reveals that Charles was first intrigued by Diana when they went windsurfing off the royal yacht. Bestseller 1985
The world into which Jesus came
Par Sylvia Root Tester. 1982

My land and my people
Par Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho. 1977
A dignified testament and chronicle of a national tragedy by a renowned spiritual and temporal leader. His Holiness the Fourteenth…
Dalai Lama of Tibet relates the story of his brief, tumultuous reign which was climaxed by the destruction and systematic murder of his people by the Chinese
Inside the Third Reich: memoirs
Par Albert Speer. 1981
During his imprisonment as a Nazi war criminal, Hitler's former architect and armaments minister wrote this inside history of the…
Nazi regime. He excuses neither himself nor his associates. Speer's account contains comments on the fuhrer's character
Long road home: a China journal
Par Vera Schwarcz. 1984
An exchange student at Peking University from February 1979 to June 1980 offers a probing account of her insights and…
changing perspectives, as she becomes close to Chinese fellow students. Highlighting the journal are descriptions of the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the People's Republic of China and her summer journey through thirteen provinces
Guerra aerea en las Malvinas
Par Benigno Héctor Andrada. 1983
A former officer of the Argentine Air Force presents a history of the actions of the Argentine Air Force against…
the British surface fleet during the Falkland Islands War in April-June of 1982. He bases his history on the testimonies of the pilots involved, providing an objective and candid account of the successes and failures of the Argentines in the conflict. Spanish language
Siglos caoticos
Par Immanuel Velikovsky. 1983
The author of the controversial "Worlds in Collision" interprets ancient cultural and political history from the Exodus of the Jews…
to the reign of the Egyptian King Akhnaton. Although some critics have noted the author's tendency to mix fact and fancy, some found his works provocative reading. Spanish language