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Chief Officer Stephen Gronow and the Sinking of the
Vinovia
by Siân Evans
Siân Evans, author of Maiden Voyages, shares her great-great uncle’s harrowing adventure of…
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Sail Away: Post-War Migration and the Escape from Poverty
by Siân Evans
Siân Evans's new book Maiden Voyages is an engaging and anecdotal social history, exploring how…
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria
: “A Living Testament to the Importance of Beauty in the Everyday World”
by Greg King and Penny Wilson
By Greg King and Penny Wilson In The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, Greg King…
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Lessons from the Sinking of the Lusitania
by Greg King As epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner; a…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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