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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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Get the Summary of Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
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#1 The Titans were the first gods, and they were supreme in the universe. They were of enormous size and incredible strength. The twelve great Olympians were their descendants, and they ruled over the other gods.
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#1 Remus sold himself to Imogene Holmes. He would handle her divorce, and she didn't have to worry about his fee; in fact, he would pay the rent on her apartment and spend more time with her than he did with his wife.
#2 Remus had always enjoyed confrontation, and he fought with the plumber who had disturbed his wife. He was eventually acquitted. His wife, Lillian, filed...
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#1 When the Civil War began in 1861, Raphael Semmes hoped to become a captain of a ship. He was not a native-born Southerner, but he had wartime experience and was a passionate supporter of the Confederacy. He was not too old to be a seafaring captain.
#2 The life of a midshipman was difficult, to say the least. They were the lowest ranking officers, yet they...
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#1 Svetlana, the wife of Farewell, was able to give us a lot of information about her husband. She was able to tell us about his character and his inner motivations, which made the suspenseful, sensational side of the story much more believable.
#2 Vladimir Vetrov was born on October 10, 1932, in Moscow. He was raised by his mother, Maria Danilovna, and his father, Ippolit...
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#1 In 1928, Egon Richter,17, and his father, Gerhard, traveled to the Hunsrück in Germany to hunt wild boar. When they came across an old boar that had challenged them, Egon shot him. His father told him not to, but Egon felt he had to.
#2 The B-24 bomber was sent to Benghazi, Libya, to join up with a small bomber force already in place there. The reason for their...
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#1 The German state of Brandenburg has a village green on which communal events are celebrated, and the Brandenburg Gate is the setting for all great national events. The Gate was originally built as a monument to peace, but it has become a symbol of the division of Germany and the world into two blocs.
#2 The first person to use the Brandenburg Gate for a triumphal...
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#1 Sydney Bowles was fourteen years old when she first set eyes on David Freeman Mitford. He was seventeen, classically handsome, and with luminous blue eyes. She felt all the natural frustration of a teenager wanting to look older to impress him, but she was miserably aware that her outfit labeled her a child.
#2 David Mitford, the second son of Lord and Lady Redesdale,...
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Book Preview: #1 The first man to transform a democracy into a dictatorship was Mussolini, who created fascism. He understood that the world would never be the same after the war, and old parties and the old men who ruled them would be swept aside.
#2 Fascist regimes disrupted the existing field of politics, putting two things together that were supposed to be opposites: nationalism...
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#1 Porta Pia is one of the least attractive corners of central Rome, but it brings together within a few hundred square meters tangible allusions to the bits of history of which Italians are proudest: the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Risorgimento.
#2 Italy has a long and rich history, but the country is also home to many cultural treasures that are...
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#1 The first courtroom appearance of Patrick Henry Jr. was in the Parsons' Cause, a case that had religious and political implications for both Virginia and England. If Henry lost the case, many would lose their homes and lands.
#2 Patrick Henry was a lawyer, and he was assigned to represent the plaintiff in the trial. He had three previous careers that had...
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Get the Summary of Joe Scarborough's Saving Freedom in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: n Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country's long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America's foreign policy for generations to come.
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#1 As the earth rotates, the light of the sun moves from the gray and pale blue of the Pacific onto the forests and fields of Japan and Luzon. In the seething energy and hard-won order of the streets of Edo, the great capital city of Japan's hereditary military dictators, the heavy wooden gates of residential quarters are swung open.
#2 The world in a single year is...
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#1 The appearance of Mr. Smith as he comes to the breakfast table in 1919 is very different from that of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 1919. The movement of men's fashions is glacial, but Mrs. Smith's suit has become even shorter since 1919, and she has never heard of such dark arts as face-lifting.
#2 The first tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News, was not released until...
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Get the Summary of Sandra Lee's 18 Hours in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In the inspiring tradition of Black Hawk Down, this is the riveting real-life story of how an Australian SAS signalman's courage under fire saved more than 80 lives. It is an enthralling eyewitness account of the war on terror.
Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of Operation Anaconda, the U.S.-led military...
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