Nuclear War- The End of The World?
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure $6.20 In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. This is the story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and … |
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The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) $3.90 The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as “the best historical novels ever written.”Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for… |
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Cognac: The Seductive Saga of the World’s Most Coveted Spirit $17.45 “Rich in history and admirable scholarship. . . . It’s a fine grande champagne of a book, to be savored over and over.”-Patricia Wells, author of The Provence CookbookCalled the “brandy of the gods” by Victor Hugo, Cognac is a universal symbol of refinement and quality. In the first comprehensive history of this celebrated drink, Kyle Jarrard charts Cognac’s birth in the 1500s and its transformati… |