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New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprec
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Birds of America
The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is a world record for a book. First published in double elephant size (approximately a metre tall) in the first half of the nineteenth century, it is famous for its stunning life-size il...
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New Literary History of Modern China
Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as
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History Of America In Ten Strikes
A thrilling, timely account of ten moments in history when labour challenged the very nature of power in America
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Penguin History Of Latin America
A history of Latin America that tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World
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Latin America and Existentialism
This book is a literary history of existentialism in Latin America. While primarily a literary study, indispensable (if underappreciated) figures of e
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Borges and the Literary Marketplace
A fascinating history of Jorge Luis BorgesÂ’s efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America
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America's Eden
An entirely new, illustrated publication on the landscape, history and representation of Newport, Rhode Island through the ages
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History of Violence
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and po
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Short History of Finland
This updated edition includes expanded coverage on the Second World War, as well as new sections on Finns in America and Russia, the centenary of the
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History of Violence (1784706078)
Kniha - autor Edouard Louis, 198 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná ** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award ** The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence. I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invi...
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Work and the Reader in Literary Studies
Paul Eggert remaps the concept of literary critique, providing new justification for close reading and bringing scholarly editions and book history in
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Paris: A Literary Anthology - Zachary Seager
<p>Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists.Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology, author and academic Zachary Seager compiles beautiful, fascinating work inspired by the City of Light.Gustave Flau...
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Oxford History of the Renaissance
The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation—from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, to the English literary Renaissance in th
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The History of Bees (147116277X)
Kniha - autor Maja Lunde, 338 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their children and one another - against the backdro...
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A Brief History of Living Forever - Kalfar Jaroslav
Anotace: FROM THE AUTHOR OF SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA, SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING ADAM SANDLER AND CAREY MULLIGAN`Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo` Daily Telegraph`A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch` New York Times`Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch` EsquireAdela, diagnosed with a terminal illness, leaves her Czech village for...
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A Brief History of Living Forever, 1. vydání - Jaroslav Kalfar
<p>FROM THE AUTHOR OF SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA, SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING ADAM SANDLER AND CAREY MULLIGAN'Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo' Daily Telegraph'A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch' New York Times'Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch' EsquireAdela, diagnosed with a terminal illness, leaves her Czech village for ...
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War in the West: A New History
Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Ra
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War in the West: A New History
Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic.
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Fantasyland : How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Kurt Andersen
<p>You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts Fantasy is the USA's primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is...
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The Secret History (1400031702)
Kniha - autor Donna Tartt, 576 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Goldfinch. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misf...
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Macmillan Readers The United States of America Pre Intermediate Pack
A new strand of the popular Macmillan Readers series, the Macmillan Cultural Readers are factual readers focusing on countries and culture, and include chapters on history, traditions, daily life, cities, nature and sport. These lively and engaging readers are illustrated in full-colour photography throughout, and contain fact and interview boxes, encouraging readers to i...
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia - George Makari
An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia and what it means for today's divided world <p>Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalisation on the defensive, and a 'New Xe...
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The Secret History - Tartt Donna
Anotace: FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. ______________________________________ 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly;...
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The Secret History - Donna Tartt
<p>FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.______________________________________'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up...
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A Brief History of Living Forever, 1. vydání - Jaroslav Kalfar
<p>An audacious novel set in near-future America, from the critically acclaimed author of SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA.When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, her thoughts turn to Tereza, the child she gave up at birth. Leaving behind her family in their native Czech village, Adéla flies to the United States to find her long-lost daughter before it is too late.Raise...
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Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge
The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In this book a group of specialists argue for the need to re-centre Linnaean science and de-centre Linnaeus the man by exploring the ideas, practices and people connected to his taxonomic innovation...
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The History of Middle-Earth 11: War of the Jewels - Tolkien J. R. R.
Anotace: The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoth's Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High...
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The CIA: An Imperial History - Wilford Hugh
Anotace: A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyse foreign ...
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The CIA: An Imperial History - Hugh Wilford
<p>A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyse foreign i...
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana
Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...
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Land Where Blues Began
This odyssey across America's musical heartland covers the history of blues through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts o
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The War in the West: A New History : Th - James Holland
<p>In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the...
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Dawnlands: the number one bestselling author of vivid stories crafted by history - Gregory Philippa
Anotace: The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all . . . Ned Ferryman, inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic, King James. As Ned swears loy...
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Dawnlands: the number one bestselling author of vivid stories crafted by history - Philippa Gregory
<p>The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all . . . Ned Ferryman, inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic, King James. As Ned swears loya...
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Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - Clair Wills
<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian 'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character ...
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Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - Clair Wills
<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian 'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character ...
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Bohemian Stories - An Illustrated History of Czechs in the USA - Fučíková Renáta
Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the United Sta...
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The Right Side of History : How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great - Shapiro Ben
Anotace: Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civil...
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Bohemian Stories - An Illustrated History of Czechs in the USA - Renáta Fučíková
<p></p> <p>Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the...
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The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name - Muraresku Brian C.
Anotace: The most influential religious historian of the twentieth century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since th...
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New Criticism
This volume covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism school of the 1920s-1950s in America. Contributors trace the history o
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Coat of Many Colors
For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. To respond to it meant to fashion from the available cultural and personal material a mythic self, one that could serve both as the organizing subject for poetry and as an object of worshipful adoration. A successful poet like Mandelstam thus became the focal poin...
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Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, ...
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The Age of Revolutions
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how pr
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LEAVES OF GRASS (CL DLX ED) - neuveden
Anotace: The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, unt...
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Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature
Provides a new account of the literary history of fourteenth-century England, arguing that many of this period's most distinctive literary experiments
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Feast of the Goat - Llosa Mario Vargas
Anotace: `The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America`s twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.` Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that h...
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Malcolm Gaskill
<p>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE* *A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times 'Simply one of the best history books I have ever read' BBC History In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People su...
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Gaskill Malcolm
Anotace: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*`A bona fide historical classic` Sunday Times`Simply one of the best history books I have ever read` BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer f...
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (0141985135)
Kniha - autor Michael Pollan, 480 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of...
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Leaves of Grass: 1855 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Walt Whitman
<p>The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelv...
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Act of Oblivion - Harris Robert
Anotace: From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliant imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail-an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, a...
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Age of Vice - Kapoor Deepti
Anotace: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the ...
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Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse (Papus), and René Guénon. D'Olivet spent his life pursuing the esoteric wisdom concealed in the Hebrew scriptures, Greek philosophy, and the symbolism of many anci...
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World Atlas of Wine, 7th Edition
"Immense and beautiful - almost drinkable" -- Midweek, BBC Radio 4 "Simply superb work...buy it if you like wine at all." -- Victoria Moore, The Telegraph "If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one. And this edition, please." -- Andrew Jefford, Decanter Few wine books can be called classic but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history...
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The Weight of Blood - Jackson Tiffany D.
Anotace: * AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS` INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America`s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgi...
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The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson
<p>* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georg...
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Fruit of the Dead - Rachel Lyon
<p>An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her camper...
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Flags of Our Fathers - Bradley James
Anotace: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE IMMORTAL PHOTOGRAPH THAT HAS COME TO SYMBOLIZE THE COURAGE AND INDOMITABLE WILL OF AMERICA In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island`s highest pea...
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