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New Light on Canaanite-Phoenician Pottery, Hardcover - Dalit Regev

804,99 RON

This book follows a continuous line of development from Canaanite pottery to the Phoenician pottery corpus. Phoenician pottery typically is conside...

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At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War, Hardcover - Monica Popescu

782,99 RON 837,99 RON

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

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The Confederate Jurist: The Legal Life of Judah P. Benjamin, Hardcover - William C. Gilmore

776,99 RON 831,99 RON

Reducere. This is the first biography written from a legal perspective on the public life of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884); a prominent figure in the common ...

edinburgh university press, carti, carte straina, law

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Picturing War in France, 1792-1856, Hardcover - Katie Hornstein

513,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Katie HornsteinFrom the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevo...

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Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross, Hardcover - Milt Gross

482,99 RON 516,99 RON

Reducere. Presenting a comprehensive collection of the major comic strips from Milt Gross: Nize Baby, Count Screwloose, and Dave's Delicatessen, along with o...

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The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904-1940, Hardcover - Richard W. Harrison

482,99 RON 516,99 RON

Reducere. In the first half of the twentieth century, both czarist Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union, were confronted with the problem of conducting...

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Rene Burri: Mouvement / Movement, Hardback - Rene Burri

472,99 RON

DescriptionOver the course of a half-century, the photographs of Ren Burri (1933-2014) have tracked the turning points, triumphs and crises of the ...

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The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War, Hardcover - Kyle J. Anderson

440,99 RON 471,99 RON

Reducere. During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps ...

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Half-Track: A History of American Semi-Tracked Vehicles, Hardcover - R. P. Hunnicutt

438,99 RON 469,99 RON

Reducere. Featuring over a thousand photos from the National Archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Half-Track remains the definitive d...

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The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877-1923, Hardcover - Jeremy Salt

425,99 RON

During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman Empire and the lands around its borders were places of constant political turmoil and un...

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Life Gave Me a Chance, Hardcover - Manfred Gans

402,99 RON 431,99 RON

Reducere. This is the story of the Holocaust in which a young German Jew is given power, trained for its exercise and engages the enemy. He was a member of t...

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Road to Armageddon: Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70, Paperback - Thomas Whigham

397,99 RON 425,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas WhighamIn 1864 Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez seized the Brazilian steamer, the Marques de Olinda, initi...

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American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, Paperback - Thomas S. Kidd

396,99 RON

DescriptionAmerican History volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconst...

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Mitch Epstein: Sunshine Hotel, Hardcover - Mitch Epstein

377,99 RON

The promise and pathology of America in the photographs of Epstein, more than half of which are previously unpublishedAmerica, as a place and an id...

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Noc City (The Complete Trilogy), Hardcover - Penn Cassidy

374,99 RON 401,99 RON

Reducere. The Complete Noc City Trilogy - Special Edition! Book 1 Noc City Book 2 Blood Moon Book 3 Hybrid Theory Book 1 Noc City They call me the Angel of N...

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Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome, Hardcover - Margaret Meserve

365,99 RON

Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-p...

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Wyszkw Memorial Book: Translation of Sefer Wyszkw, Hardcover - David Shtokfish

362,99 RON

This is the translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community of Wyszk w, Poland. The town of Wyszków, about 35 miles northeast o...

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A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coast Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867, Hardcover - John R. Weaver

354,99 RON 379,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA Legacy in Brick and Stone by John Weaver IIThe definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coa...

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The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863, Hardcover - Steven E. Woodworth

348,99 RON

After a series of victories through Mississippi early in the spring of 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee had reached the criti...

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The Patristic Witness of Georges Florovsky: Essential Theological Writings, Paperback - Georges Florovsky

348,99 RON 373,99 RON

Reducere. Georges Florovsky (1893-1979) was one of the most prominent Orthodox theologians and ecumenists of the twentieth century. His call for a return to ...

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Selected Games, Hardcover - Peter Romanovsky

345,99 RON 370,99 RON

Reducere. Peter Romanovsky (1892-1964) was Soviet chess champion in 1923 (outright) and 1927 (jointly with Bogatyrchuk). According to Chessmetrics he was ran...

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Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer, Hardcover - David J. Fitzpatrick

342,99 RON 366,99 RON

Reducere. Emory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. His works--The Armies of Asia and Europe and T...

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Battle for Bed-Stuy, Hardcover - ***

332,99 RON 356,99 RON

Reducere. Half a century after the launch of the War on Poverty, its complex origins remain obscure. Battle for Bed-Stuy reinterprets President Lyndon Johnso...

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History of Central Asia, The: 4-Volume Set, Hardcover - Christoph Baumer

319,99 RON

For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all...

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American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, Paperback - Thomas S. Kidd

314,99 RON 337,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America's history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and cultural st...

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Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography, Paperback - Sebastiaan Faber

307,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Sebastiaan FaberThe ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. B...

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Half-Track: A History of American Semi-Tracked Vehicles, Paperback - R. P. Hunnicutt

306,99 RON

Featuring over a thousand photos from the National Archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Half-Track remains the definitive d...

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Josef Sudek: The Window of My Studio, Hardcover - Josef Sudek

305,99 RON 327,99 RON

Reducere. Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was Prague's Atget. From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Sudek photographed everything--the Gothic and Baroque archi...

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A Legacy in Brick and Stone, Paperback - John Weaver

299,99 RON 320,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these a...

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Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945, Hardcover - Norman Polmar

298,99 RON 319,99 RON

Reducere. Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar's revised and updated, two-volume c...

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The Road To Wigan Pier: Paperback by George Orwell, Paperback - George Orwell

298,99 RON 319,99 RON

Reducere. The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociologic...

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First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War But Lost the Peace, Paperback - Peter Martell

284,99 RON 304,99 RON

Reducere. When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with ...

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Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985, Paperback - Bojana Videkanic

282,99 RON

In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures...

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Appalachia: A History, Paperback - John Alexander Williams

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

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Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China, Hardcover - Covell F. Meyskens

273,99 RON

In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union...

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, Paperback - Faust, Drew Gilpin

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865, Hardcover - Jeremy Zallen

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

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All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1854-1855, Hardcover - John D. McDermott

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. On August 19, 1854, U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota en...

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Mosley - The Facts, Hardcover - Oswald Mosley

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. "Mosley - The Facts" offers an eclectic overview of Oswald Mosley's contribution to political thought as expressed through his speeches and writing...

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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Paperback - Douglas Flamming

249,99 RON

DescriptionPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced So...

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The Coming Cyber War: What Executives, the Board, and You Should Know, Hardcover - Marc Crudgington

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. "Tomorrow's wars will be fought not just with guns, but with the click of a mouse half a world away that will unleash weaponized software that coul...

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Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin: The Complete Collection Vol. 2, Paperback - Reginald Hudlin

245,99 RON

From Civil War to the Fantastic Four King T'Challa and Queen Ororo are about to embark on a diplomatic tour around the globe - and beyond Stops inc...

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Rusty Brown, Hardcover - Chris Ware

241,99 RON

DescriptionA major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved...

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From Day to Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps, Hardcover - Odd Nansen

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal ab...

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Privateer: Alexis Carew #5, Hardcover - J. a. Sutherland

238,99 RON

Even with no war on, there are always battles to fight. A cease-fire in the war with Hanover leaves Lieutenant Alexis Carew on half-pay, in-atmosph...

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Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War, Paperback - Kyle Burke

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this ...

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Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America's Missing Airmen in China During World War II, Hardcover - Daniel Jackson

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced...

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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876, Hardcover - Jerome A. Greene

235,99 RON

Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-ContemporaryThe Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most fam...

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Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South, Paperback - Warren Eugene Milteer

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including...

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Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio, Paperback - Gary Kornblith

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberli...

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Understanding and Teaching the Cold War, Hardcover - Matthew Masur

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...

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The Slammer: A Critique of Prison Overpopulation, a menacing flaw in American culture, Hardcover - Robert Allyn Goldman

233,00 RON

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

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Moments of Truth: A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970, Hardcover - Howard Ruffner

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA student journalist's photographic memoir of events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings Working as a photographer for the Kent St...

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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s, Paperback - Roger Kahn

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming powe...

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European Economy since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond, Paperback - Barry Eichengreen

232,99 RON

Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's buying power tripled, while working hours fell by a third. This work offers a...

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Savannah in the Old South, Paperback - Walter J. Fraser

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. This flowing, instantly engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to ...

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Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781, Hardcover - John E. Ferling

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of -fighting, Amer...

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The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights, Hardcover - Dave Riddle

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor...

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The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseba, Paperba

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. For a half-century, The Paris Review has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. To commemorate the anniversary, ...

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The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, Paperback - Bertrand M. Patenaude

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive two-year relief mission that battled st...

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The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922, Paperback - Joan McGuire Mohr

222,99 RON

During World War I, a specialized Russian battalion comprised of ethnic Czechs and Czech and Slovak prisoners of war--the Legion--became a pawn in ...

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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Paperback - V. I. Lenin

222,99 RON

In Lenin's now classic work Imperialism, he accounts for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The concept of imp...

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Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-45, Hardcover - Robert Forsyth

220,99 RON

A highly illustrated study of some of the weapons developed by Nazi Germany to equip the Luftwaffe in their desperate war against the encroaching A...

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Guerillas: Omnibus Edition, Paperback - Brahm Revel

219,99 RON

DescriptionBinge the entire, critically-acclaimed and fan-favorite Guerillas series from Brahm Revel in one omnibus edition Private John Francis Cl...

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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke, Paperback - Timothy Snyder

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the c...

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The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Paperback - Lisa Tetrault

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credit...

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Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands, Hardcover - Michael B. Barrett

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25, 000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a h...

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Chinese Grammatology. Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958, Paperback - Yurou Zhong

217,99 RON

For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, trans...

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Everyone to Skis!: Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon, Hardcover - William D. Frank

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Sovi...

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The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Paperback - Monica Kim

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle--not over land but over human subject...

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