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Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, as a daughter she was deemed unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive the vipers of court life with her sense of humor intact.

When Habiburahman was three years old, he became stateless in his own country when Burma's military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, were not recognized as one of the eight "national races." Through the eyes of a child, we learn about the historic persecution of the Rohingya people and witness the violence Habiburahman endured throughout his life until he escaped the country in 2000.

An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.

The prominent journalist, author, and historian of some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century describes a post-Hitler world, including the McCarthy years and its blacklists.

By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised to reveal the tactics behind the vicious success of the German U-boats. Through play, the designers developed a maneuver to turn the tide of World War II.

In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in exchange for his labor.

This account of one mountain man's life at the height of the nineteenth-century fur industry follows Rose as he overcomes adversity, learns from those around him, and becomes one of the most successful trappers of the Rockies.

In December of 1943, a group of highly trained US and Canadian soldiers capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The unit, with its vast range of capabilities and mission-specific exercises, became a model for the "Green Berets" and other special forces groups. David Saul knits together first-hand accounts and documents to show how these too-often forgotten heroes managed a string of incredible feats with strategic importance to WWII.

In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a confession. This book tells the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma, the oft-forgotten case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of Education and the accompanying social revolution.

Les années suivant la création du Dominion du Canada en 1867, le territoire canadien connait une expansion fulgurante. Face à la menace grandissante des trafiquants d'alcool et des brigands régnant sur l'Ouest américain, la mise en place d'une force de police devient rapidement nécessaire pour assurer l'ordre et la sécurité dans la vaste étendue des prairies et des régions du Nord. C'est ainsi qu'est créée la Police à cheval du Nord-Ouest en 1873, chargée de faire régner une justice impartiale.