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| Subject: World History |
| 1421: The Year China Discovered America |
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Subject: World History 1421: THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED AMERICA?, investigates a theory that could turn the conventional view of world history on its head: the startling possibility that a daring Chinese admiral, commanding ... |
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| Amelia Earhart |
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Series: American Experience Subject: Biography, World History The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was America's "Lady Lindy." What the public didn't know was the cost of her courage. The record-breaking flights, races, interviews, spe... |
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| The Battle For Korea |
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Subject: Military History, World History Takes a fresh look at the Korean conflict, often labeled 'the forgotten war.' Using information declassified at the end of the Cold War, the documentary looks at the military aims of the confrontation... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 1 |
| Versailles: The Lost Peace |
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Subject: Military History, World History In the closing moments of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson drew up a 14-point peace plan, including a grand design for an international League of Nations. This video documents the negotiations su... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 2 |
| Return to Isolationism |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video examines isolationism, the prevailing U.S. foreign policy for over a hundred years. Wilson's idea to create a League of Nations was severely criticized. |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 3 |
| The First SALT Talks |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video highlights the world's first major disarmament meeting, the Washington Naval Conference of 1921. The Big Five--the United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy-- attempted to agree to l... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 4 |
| Radio, Racism, and Foreign Policy |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History The effects of foreign policy issues on the American public are the focus of this video, which examines the authoritarian radio campaign aimed at enforcing a conformity of beliefs, customs and traditi... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 5 |
| The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History During the Great Depression, most Americans and the majority of U.S. politicians were too preoccupied with domestic problems to notice the rise of dictators in Europe and Japan. This video focuses on ... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 6 |
| FDR and Hilter: Their Rise to Power |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History This video chronicles the different styles of these world leaders and their rise to power. |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 7 |
| FDR and Hilter: The Dynamics of Power |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History Two powerful modern leaders dominated much of the era before and during World War II: Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed chancellor of Germany, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the ... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 8 |
| America in the Pacific: The Clash of Two Cultures |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video examines American public opinion toward Japan, the Oriental mind, and the rise of Japan as a major world power following World War I. |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 9 |
| The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Mistrust |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video examines the wave of working-class militancy that swept the world after the boom decade of the 1920s and the Roosevelt administration's official recognition of the U.S.S.R. in the first det... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 10 |
| Latin America: Intervention in our Own Backyard |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video examines early U.S. policy in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America as Pan-American relationships deteriorated until, in 1933, President Roosevelt abolished the Monroe policy of... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 11 |
| The Italian Ethiopian War: Africa in World Affairs |
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Subject: Military History, World History During the first part of the century, Italy was torn by economic and political strife. Benito Mussolini came to power by championing the resistance of the ruling class movement against communist union... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 12 |
| The Spanish Civil War |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video examines fascist Spain and the Spanish Civil War. The popular fascist claim that totalitarianism was the only way to effectively fight communism fueled the rebellion against the country's r... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 13 |
| The Phony War |
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Subject: Military History, World History In 1938, Adolf Hitler absorbed Austria, began threatening the rest of eastern Europe, and then shocked the world by invading Poland. American public opinion wavered between a desire to help and a comm... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 14 |
| FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History In this video, the close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill is examined and viewers learn how this relationship had a profound effect on the history of the Western world. |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 15 |
| Japan Invades China: Crisis in the Far East |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video highlights Japan's imperialistic expansion into French Indochina, the Dutch Indies, Burma, Malaya, and the Philippines. In 1941, President Roosevelt decided to enforce a total embargo, free... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 16 |
| War comes to Pearl Harbor |
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Subject: Military History, World History This video focuses on the diplomatic and economic pressure placed on Japan prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor; the consequence of the governments' failure to reach an agreement; and the bombing of Pe... |
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| China in the Red |
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Series: Frontline Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History Filmed over the course of three turbulent years, CHINA IN THE READ is a documentary that tells the stories of 10 Chinese individuals -- factory workers, rural villagers, and a millionaire entrepreneur... |
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| The Conquistadors, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| The Fall Of the Aztecs & The Conquest of the Incas |
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Subject: World History Episode 1: Cortez left Cuba in 1519 seeking riches in he islands to the west. Instead, he discovered, and ultimately destroyed, a hitherto unknown civilization. Michael Wood retraces this fateful ex... |
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| The Conquistadors, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| The Search for El Dorado & All the World is Human |
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Subject: World History Episode 3: Gold was the ultimate goal for the Spanish Conquistadors of the 1500s. The myth of an entire city of gold, ruled by a king who covered his body with a layer of pure gold dust and bathed eac... |
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| Dark Passages |
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Subject: African American Studies, World History Employs a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. Takes the viewer from the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast... |
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| Egypt's Golden Empire |
| The Last Great Pharaoh |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Episode 3: The reign of Ramesses the Great marked the high point of the New Kingdom and the high point of Egyptian culture. But like any highpoint, it was all downhill as the New Kingdom gradually fel... |
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| Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular |
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Subject: Biography, World History The film Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular is about one man's passionate resolve to bear witness for the millions of people who suffered and perished in the Holocaust. He has been sustained by his fa... |
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| Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, Parts 1 & 2 |
| Clinton (1999-2001) & Arafat (2001-2002) |
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Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History Presents President Clinton, Yasser Arafat, the Israeli Prime Ministers, their generals and advisers, and those behind the suicide bombs and assassinations discussing what happened behind closed doors ... |
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| Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, Part 3 |
| Sharon (2002-2005) |
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Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History Presents President Clinton, Yasser Arafat, the Israeli Prime Ministers, their generals and advisers, and those behind the suicide bombs and assassinations discussing what happened behind closed doors ... |
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| Fidel Castro |
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Series: American Experience Subject: Biography, World History Castro's face with its trademark beard, has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Through interviews with relatives, childhood friends, fellow rebel... |
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| Food for the Ancestors |
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Subject: World History FOOD FOR ANCESTORS is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the Dead, Mexican traditions and ancient ways of life that still exist there. All of these seen through Mexican cuisine. The program is ... |
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| Ghosts of Rwanda |
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Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History Documentary marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide -- a state-sponsored massacre in which some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the U.S. an... |
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| The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization, Parts 1 & 2 |
| Revolution & The Golden Age |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History THE GREEKS: CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION tells the story of Greek democracy from its first stirrings in 500 B.C. through to the cataclysmic wars that virtually destroyed the empire. It concludes with a fa... |
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| The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization, Part 3 |
| Empire of the Mind |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History THE GREEKS: CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION tells the story of Greek democracy from its first stirrings in 500 B.C. through to the cataclysmic wars that virtually destroyed the empire. It concludes with a fa... |
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| The Hidden Child |
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Subject: World History Of the 1.6 million Jewish children who lived in Europe before WWII, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. Most were hidden children, shuttered away in attics, cellars, convents or farms. This is Maud ... |
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| Holy Warriors |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History The epic legend of King Richard the Lionhearted and his struggle to save Christendom's holiest city, Jerusalem, from its Muslim conqueror Saladin is explored in this drama-documentary using original M... |
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| In Search of Myths and Heroes, Parts 1 & 2 |
| The Queen of Sheba & Arthur: The Once & Future King |
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Subject: World History Part 1: Michael Wood begins his quest with an exotic and mysterious woman of power — the Queen of Sheba. Immortalized in the Hebrew Bible, the Muslim Koran and in many Christian traditions, the tale... |
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| In Search of Myths and Heroes, Parts 3 & 4 |
| The Search For Shangri-La & Jason and the Golden Fleece |
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Subject: World History Part 3: Wood's search for Shangri-La takes him on a thrilling trek through India, Nepal and Tibet. The tale of the magical hidden valley of Shangri-La was popularized in the 1930s by James Hilton in h... |
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| In Search of Shakespeare, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| A Time of Revolution & The Lost Years |
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Subject: The Arts, World History Mixing travel, adventure, interviews and specially shot sequences with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the road, the series sets the life of Shakespeare in the turbulent times in which he lived--a ti... |
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| In Search of Shakespeare, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| The Duty of Poets & For All Time |
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Subject: The Arts, World History Mixing travel, adventure, interviews and specially shot sequences with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the road, the series sets the life of Shakespeare in the turbulent times in which he lived--a ti... |
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| Inside Hamas |
| Includes Chopin's Heart & The Play Pump |
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Series: Frontline Subject: World History Kate Seelye travels across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to investigate Hamas, the militant Islamist group responsible for scores of suicide bombings and missile attacks on Israel -- and the surpri... |
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| Islam: Empire of Faith, Parts 1 & 2 |
| The Messenger & The Awakening |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Isla... |
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| Islam: Empire of Faith, Part 3 |
| The Ottomans |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Isla... |
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| Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, Episode 1 |
| The Way of the Samurai |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Tokugawa Ieyasu unifies Japan and establishes a dynasty that will rule Japan for over 250 years. |
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| Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, Episodes 2 & 3 |
| The Will of the Shogun & The Return of the Barbarians |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Episode 2: The Will of the Shogun: The grandson of Ieyasu, Tokugawa Iemitsu, tightens control over Japan's warlords and expels all foreigners. Episode 3: The Return of the Barbarians: Isolated from th... |
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| A Jew Among the Germans |
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Series: Frontline Subject: World History In A JEW AMONG THE GERMANS, FRONTLINE presents Marian Marzynski's moving and provocative search for a Germany that he -- and his children -- can live with. Over several years of filming, Marzynski en... |
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| Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| By the Rivers of Babylon & The Book and the Sword |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Tells the epic story of the Jews and the creation of the world's first and most profoundly influential monotheistic religion. The stories of the patriarch Abraham, the liberator Moses, the poet-king D... |
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| Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| The End of Days & The Gifts of the Jews |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Tells the epic story of the Jews and the creation of the world's first and most profoundly influential monotheistic religion. The stories of the patriarch Abraham, the liberator Moses, the poet-king D... |
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| The Man Behind Hitler |
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Series: American Experience Subject: Biography, World History A symbol of Nazi cruelty and a master of cynical propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's disturbing success. |
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| The Nuremburg Trial |
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Series: American Experience Subject: World History On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany; they were charged with ... |
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| Road to 9/11: A Brief History of Conflict in the Middle East |
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Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History The Road to 9/11 is a detailed look at the forces that have shaped the Middle East to give an understanding of the current crisis. Viewers are taken on a journey through a chronicle of steadily worsen... |
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| Roman Empire In the First Century, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| Order from Chaos & Years of Trial |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Episode 1: Against all odds, Augustus ruled as Emperor for over 40 years, surviving plots, rebellions and mutinies. When he died, he was declared to be a god. His rule created the image of Imperial Ro... |
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| Roman Empire In the First Century, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| Winds of Change & Years of Eruptions |
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Series: Empires Subject: World History Episode 3: Claudius was Rome’s unlikely emperor. Despite his much-ridiculed appearance, he had become a good ruler, passing visionary laws and conquering Britain. After being murdered by his wife, h... |
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| The Tank Man |
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Series: Frontline Subject: World History One day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace.... |
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| Triumph of Memory |
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Subject: World History Four non-Jewish resistance fighters who were sent to Nazi concentration camps in World War II bear witness to the Jewish Holocaust and provide a reminder of Nazi actions at camps like Auschwitz. They ... |
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| Victory in the Pacific |
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Series: American Experience Subject: Military History, World History In this provocative, thorough examination of the final months of the war, American Experience looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans. As... |
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