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Citizens and Assassins    by Julie Peavey Alexander
Price: $4.99 USD. 24490 words. Language: English. Published on May 26, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

A true and accurate account of the infamous lynching which occurred on April 19, 1909, in Ada, Oklahoma. A story rarely spoken about for over a hundred years, this is a story of vigilante justice which needs to be told.
Red Steel: Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of the Cold War    by Russell Phillips
Price: $4.99 USD. 22940 words. Language: British English. Published on April 4, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.

The Cold War never heated up, but if it had, the Soviet Union was ready. This reference work details 73 major Soviet war machines, from the 2P26 "Baby Carriage" - a deceptively light, Jeep-like vehicle mounting four anti-tank missiles - to the T-80U main battle tank with its advanced armour and electronic countermeasures.
In a Moon's Course    by Allan Jones
Price: $4.99 USD. 29300 words. Language: English. Published on March 1, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

In a Moon’s Course tells the remarkable story of the Air Transport Auxiliary in Britain during World War II and revisits through flight simulation 28 of their flights. Older veterans, volunteer pilots from other countries and the parents and sisters of servicemen rose to the challenge of delivering hundreds of aircraft daily from the factories to the RAF. Simulation details are included.
When That Great Ship Went Down: The Legal and Political Repercussions of the Loss of RMS Titanic    by Markham Pyle
Price: $2.99 USD. 99400 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by Bapton Books  on January 16, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

The celebrated history of the aftermath, in the US Congress, the US Supreme Court, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, of the sinking of the unsinkable ship. Markham Shaw Pyle and GMW Wemyss examine the political pressures and dirty deals that affected the Titanic enquiries, wrote new law, and changed our world.
Liverpool to Kirkby Fields    by Kate Higgins
Price: $3.21 USD. 82670 words. Language: English. Published on January 14, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

A glimpse at one family's life in a Liverpool overspill town during the 1950s-60s.
Titanic: Those in Peril on the Sea    by Steve Orlandella
Price: $2.99 USD. 66300 words. Language: English. Published on January 7, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

What really happened? Myths and inaccuracies still blur the real story. “Titanic: Those in Peril on the Sea” is the story of the great ship, her passengers, and crew. This is my attempt to tell the story through the prism of my somewhat skeptical eye. Supporting what is real, debunking what is not.
Calatorie in lumea lui Marx    by Mircea Prodan
Price: $1.20 USD. 34760 words. Language: German. Published on December 29, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

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"Traveling in Marx's world" is a book about my father's experience in the communist gulag in Romania. He, Alexander Prodan was imprisoned between 1950 and 1956 and was a victim of the famous experiment which took place in the prisions of Pitesti, Aiud and Gherla.
37: The Year of Portent    by Markham Pyle
Price: $4.99 USD. 81660 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by Bapton Books  on December 18, 2012. Nonfiction » History » World.

1937 – from the flooded Ohio to the new Golden Gate Bridge, from bombed Guernica to newly-opened Buchenwald to the Rape of Nanking – was a year of portent. Markham Shaw Pyle and GMW Wemyss, the celebrated historians of the Titanic enquiries and of the coming of the Second World War, here survey that dread year, from Tolkien and Disney to war and terror. This is history in the grand manner.
Titanic 1912    by Ken Rossignol
Price: $3.99 USD. 22520 words. Language: English. Published by Kenneth Rossignol / Huggins Point Publishing LLC  on December 8, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

The original facts and details of the Titanic disaster from the newspapers of the world bring forward the story in a vivid and striking way! Join the news stories in action as the first reports told of the RMS Titanic being towed to Halifax and all the passengers saved in erroneous first reports. Learn how the survivors were saved and about the heroes of the night who sacrificed their own lives
Titanic & Lusitania - Survivor Stories    by Ken Rossignol
Price: $3.99 USD. 26240 words. Language: English. Published by Kenneth Rossignol / Huggins Point Publishing LLC  on December 2, 2012. Nonfiction » Transportation » Ships & Shipbuilding / History.

The best of the Logan Marshall classics have been researched and edited by authors Bruce M. Caplan and Ken Rossignol and presented in this new book. The Titanic's secret fire is explained in great detail. The early days of World War I and the savage sinking of the Lusitania which caused over 1,000 civilians to die on an unarmed passenger vessel are brought to life. Great war posters.