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Handel, who knew what he liked
By Kevin Hawkes, Matthew Anderson, M. T Anderson, M. T. Anderson. 2001
A stubborn little boy with a mind of his own is determined to be a musician, even though his father…
is against the idea. He grows up to be the famous eighteenth-century composer, George Frideric Handel. For grades 3-6. 2001The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation, I-II / Vol. 1, parts I-II
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney. 1974
A scathing portrayal of the Soviet prison system drawn from eyewitness accounts and the Nobel Prize winner's own recollection of…
his eleven-year internment in the Archipelago. Prequel to The Gulag...Volume 2, Parts 3-4 (DB 49270). Bestseller. 1973The Teutonic Knights
By Henryk Sienkiewicz, H Sienkiewicz, Miroslaw Lipinski. 1993
In this epic by the 1905 Nobel Prize winner for literature, the united peoples of Poland and Lithuania fight against…
the oppression of the Teutonic Knights, a fifteenth-century Prussian religious and military order. The search for Zbyszko's wife, kidnapped by the Knights, inspires the nation to defend their land and familiesThe fall of Pan Am 103: inside the Lockerbie investigation
By Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy. 1990
The authors, both investigative reporters, were given unprecedented access to the officials and their findings regarding the 1988 crash of…
Pan Am 103. This account discusses warnings the airline received, the ability of terrorists to circumvent security systems, and the work of more than 10,000 agents piecing together countless scraps of information to identify the terroristsHenry V: the scourge of God
By Desmond Seward. 1988
A study of the life of Henry V. The son of the usurper Henry IV tried to legitimize his family's…
claim to the throne by conquering lands England once held in France