Category: History

World War Bloody Timor by Peter O’Hanlon
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Overview: World War Bloody Timor gives a revealing insight into the extraordinary life of the everyday digger and service in a conflict that was far from ordinary.

My name is Peter O’Hanlon, but everyone in the military, from the lowest digger to the highest officer, has always called me ‘Irish’. You won’t see me, or the service men and women like me, featured in the latest blockbuster, but our service lives include drama, laughs and accounts of deep turmoil that are worth telling. I was a member of the Australian Army for 11 years and during my deployment as part of the INTERFET force, serviced three very impacting tours of East Timor.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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The Wall: The People’s Story by Christopher Hilton
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MB
Overview: The story of the Berlin Wall, from the perspective of the people who lived in its shadow, including a new chapter on what happened after the wall came down

For almost three decades, the Cold War was focused on Berlin, where the two (nuclear-armed) sides were kept apart by a 12-foot wall, which had appeared almost overnight in August 1961. For a generation, until its fall in November 1989, it not only divided the city of Berlin, but also symbolized the confrontation between capitalist West and socialist East.

In this astonishing book, journalist Christopher Hilton collected the individual stories of those whose lives it affected, including international politicians, American and British soldiers, East German border guards, and, most importantlty, the citizens of Berlin itself, West and East. Weaving their memories together into a remarkable narrative, this is the extraordinarily vivid, occasionally harrowing, and often touching story of a city divided, and of how it affected the lives of real people.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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We Are Their Voice: Young People Respond to the Holocaust by Kathy Kacer
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MB
Overview: Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? That’s the question that prompted a writing project across North America, Italy, and Australia asking young people to share their ideas about this time in history. Some students wrote short stories. Some discussed the impact of books they had read and wrote about the messages that they understood from these books. Several interviewed survivors and recorded their impressions. Many talked about how they have tried to make sense of this history in the world in which they now live. Others created works of art. Children wrote from their hearts with sensitivity, thoughtfulness, and great insight. Their teachers saw this opportunity as a gift, and it proves to all that young people can make a meaningful connection to the Holocaust. Their contributions give hope for a more peaceful and tolerant future.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Denver’s Sixteenth Street by Mark A. Barnhouse
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 52 MB
Overview: The beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High City’s “Main Street.” Sixteenth Street got its jump start in 1879 when Leadville’s Silver King and Colorado’s richest man, Horace Austin Warner Tabor, came to town and built the city’s first five-story skyscraper at the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. In coming years, Sixteenth Street became Denver’s main retail center as shopkeepers and department store owners constructed ever-more impressive palaces, culminating in the Daniels and Fisher Tower–the city’s tallest building for five decades and the symbol of the city. In the second half of the 20th century, Sixteenth Street saw major changes, including the creation of one of the most successful pedestrian malls in the country, an archetype of the power of great urban places and an inspiration to other cities, large and small.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 by Nick Baron, Peter Gatrell
Requirements: .PDF reader, 12 MB
Overview: This new volume, by a team of international scholars, explores aspects of population displacement and statehood at a crucial juncture in modern European history, when the entire continent took on the aspect of a ‘laboratory atop a mass graveyard’ (Tomas Masaryk).
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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