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"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary

The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived..
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Ironclad tells the story of the warship USS Monitor and its salvage, one of the most complex and dangerous in history The Monitor is followed through its maiden voyage from New York to its battle with the Merrimack, and its loss off Cape Hatteras, Paul Clancy takes readers behind the scenes of divers and archaeologists working 240 feet deep..
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On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. This attack threw Washington's army into turmoil and led to an American retreat across the state. This book examines this critical campaign..
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