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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.
Good Night Old Man    by George Campbell
Price: $8.99 USD. 71990 words. Language: English. Published by Dream Write Publishing  on December 28, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

Today, we still have radio and telephone – each very much advanced but telegraph collapsed in Canada on May 30th, 1972, and our beautiful language died. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, I worked and conversed in Morse code every day. For those born after 1972, Morse code was an electrical language people used to communicate with one another all over the world. I left it in the final decade of its life.
The Landlord's Friend by Mary Leadbeater    by Lucille Redmond
Price: Free! 17450 words. Language: English. Published on December 20, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

The Landlord's Friend is a pamphlet published in 1813 by Irish Quaker Mary Leadbeater for the instruction and education of the brutal Anglo-Irish landlords. It is a fascinating glimpse into the Ireland of the years between the 1798 Rising and the Great Hunger.
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
Enforcing the Civil Rights Act    by James D. Keeney
Price: $9.95 USD. 57200 words. Language: English. Published on December 6, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

A new team of EEOC attorneys arrived in Miami in 1979 and discovered a class action case file hiding in a closet. Trial was scheduled to begin in just three weeks, yet nothing had been done to prepare the case for trial. This book describes how three dedicated attorneys saved the case and ultimately won a great victory for hundreds of victims of race and sex discrimination
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.
Panama 1914    by Ken Rossignol
Price: $3.99 USD. 90180 words. Language: English. Published by Kenneth Rossignol / Huggins Point Publishing LLC  on November 19, 2012. Nonfiction » Transportation » Ships & Shipbuilding / History.

PANAMA 1914 IS NOW BOARDING! Join this great voyage through the history of the Panama Canal, which is, one hundred years after its completion, on the eve of a new chapter in its spectacular history. From the early explorers, many seeking a critical water connection between two of the world’s great oceans to the determination of the best engineers of America, the BIG DIG finally opened for ships.
Vanguard Elite (Cold War, Hot Passions 1)    by Andre Jute
Price: $2.99 USD. 37840 words. Language: English. Published on November 8, 2012. Fiction » Historical » General.

THE GREATEST CONSPIRACY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN STARTED WITH THE STORMING OF THE WINTER PALACE. An epic historical saga of three intertwined families who live and die by their love of their Russian motherland and the searing passions they arouse in each other. VANGUARD ELITE is Book 1 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS.
Churchill versus Hitler: War of Words    by Peter John
Price: $9.99 USD. 136590 words. Language: English. Published by Bennion Kearny  on September 27, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

Based on three years of research in archives across Britain, Germany and the United States, Churchill versus Hitler is a fascinating book examining the views, rivalry and taunts of Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Covering the buildup to WW2, the war itself, and (in Churchill's case) afterwards - the book casts fresh light upon both the men and the events that enveloped them.