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Books in BIG IDEAS That Changed the World series

  • Normandy

    Earle Rice

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, )
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  • World War II

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    Hardcover (CHERRYTREE BOOKS, Aug. 16, 1988)
    Rare Book
  • Normandy

    Earle Rice

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, )
    None
  • 1880-1900

    Jodie L. Zdrok

    Hardcover (Greenhaven, May 14, 2004)
    Describes major world events, including the assassination of president James Garfield, the formation of the Triple Alliance, and the partitioning of Africa, through both primary and secondary documents.
  • Gettysburg

    Earle Rice

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 2002)
    Explains the events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, the defining battle of the Civil War, and describes the battle and its aftermath.
  • Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

    Christopher Hitchens, Simon Vance

    MP3 CD (Tantor Media, Sept. 15, 2007)
    Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defense of the rights of man. Paine argued against monarchy and outlined the elements of a successful republic, including public education, pensions, and relief of the poor and unemployed, all financed by income tax. Since its publication, The Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, and suppressed. But here, commentator Christopher Hitchens, Paine's natural heir, marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Above all, he shows how Thomas Paine's Rights of Man forms the philosophical cornerstone of the world's most powerful republic: the United States of America.
  • The First Man in Space

    David Cullen

    Paperback (ticktock Media Ltd, )
    None
  • The Crusades

    Ken Hills

    Hardcover (Cherrytree Books, March 15, 1990)
    None
  • The Release of Nelson Mandela

    Simon Beecroft

    Paperback (World Almanac Library, Dec. 1, 2003)
    Beecroft, Simon
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  • World War I

    Ken Hills

    Hardcover (Cherrytree Books, Aug. 16, 1988)
    This title looks at World War I, from the assassination in Sarajevo and the fighting in the trenches, to the surrender and the terms imposed on a humiliated Germany that led directly to World War II.
  • D-Day

    Colin Hynson

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Describes the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with an overview of events leading to that invasion as well as a description of its momentous effects on the war.
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  • Russian Revolution

    Philip Clark, W. Francis Phillips

    Hardcover (Cherrytree Books, June 7, 1988)
    None