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Amazon.com Review: Product Description World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before...read more
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Hardcover:

9780618758289 | Houghton Mifflin, May 3, 2011, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Award-winning author Adam Hochschild explores the First World War with a particular focus on the conflict between the critics and the supporters of the war.

Paperback:

9780547750316 | Mariner Books, March 6, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

Miscellaneous:

9780547549217 | Houghton Mifflin, May 3, 2011, cover price $28.00

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9781452601311 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 3, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Award-winning author Adam Hochschild explores the First World War with a particular focus on the conflict between the critics and the supporters of the war.
9781452651316 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 3, 2011), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9781597112024 | Aperture, February 29, 2012, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Award-winning author Adam Hochschild explores the First World War with a particular focus on the conflict between the critics and the supporters of the war.
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9781452631318 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 3, 2011), cover price $119.99 | About this edition: Award-winning author Adam Hochschild explores the First World War with a particular focus on the conflict between the critics and the supporters of the war.

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Product Description: History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later...read more
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9780670835393 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Analyzes the turmoil of present-day South Africa in terms of its turbulent and violent past, traces the history of the Boers in the country, and profiles a diversity of Black and white South Africans

Paperback:

9780618758258 | Mariner Books, April 24, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage.
9780140117851 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1991), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage.

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Product Description: From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically evokes his privileged childhood on an Adirondack estate, a colorful uncle who was a pioneer aviator and fighter ace, and his first explorations of the larger world he encountered as he came of age in the tumultuous 1960s...read more
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9780844672984 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 30, 2006, cover price $29.25 | About this edition: From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation.
9780896217669 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author, an activist in the antiwar movement and co-founder of 'Mother Jones,' recounts his relationship with his father, chief of a multinational corporation that owned mines all over South Africa

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9780618439201 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 7, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author, an activist in the anti-war movement and co-founder of 'Mother Jones,' America's largest progressive magazine, recounts his relationship with his father, chief of a multinational corporation that owned mines all over South Africa.
9780815604129 | Syracuse Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation.
9780140096101 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The author, an activist in the anti-war movement and co-founder of 'Mother Jones,' America's largest progressive magazine, recounts his relationship with his father, chief of a multinational corporation that owned mines all over South Africa

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The author of King Leopold's Ghost offers a stirring account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. Reprint.
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9780618104697 | Houghton Mifflin, January 7, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Offers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.

Paperback:

9780618619078 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, February 10, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.

Miscellaneous:

9780547526959 | Houghton Mifflin, February 10, 2006, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the first Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912...read more
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9780815605454 | Syracuse Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators.

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9781574886382 | Potomac Books Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators.

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Explores how Russians--prison survivors, historians, concentration camp guards, and others--are healing the wounds inflicted by long-repressed memories of the former leader and recounts the efforts of many to locate or find out what happened to relatives who disappeared during Stalin's tyrannical tenure. Reprint.
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9780618257478 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, February 4, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explores how Russians--prison survivors, historians, concentration camp guards, and others--are healing the wounds inflicted by long-repressed memories of the former leader and recounts the efforts of many to locate or find out what happened to relatives who disappeared during Stalin's tyrannical tenure.

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A true tale of turn-of-the-century greed, avarice, and colonial violence explores the African legacy of Belgium's King Leopold, a man who conducted one of the first great genocides of the century while cultivating a reputation as a humanitarian. Reissue. (A Linden Productions' documentary, written, directed, & produced by Pippa Scott, narrated by Don Cheadle, releasing Winter 2006) (History -- General)
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9780395759240 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A colorful, provocative study of King Leopold II of Belgium's genocidal plunder of the Congo in the 1880s, as the European powers were colonizing Africa, reveals the heroic efforts that led to the first international human rights movement.

Paperback:

9780618711673 | Mariner Books, April 1, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A true tale of turn-of-the-century greed, avarice, and colonial violence explores the African legacy of Belgium's King Leopold, a man who conducted one of the first great genocides of the century while cultivating a reputation as a humanitarian.
9780618001903 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 3, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Documents the plundering of the territory
9789990064216 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

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A collection of essays that first appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice, the New York Review of Books, West, the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, and Zyzzyva
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9780815604471 | Syracuse Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays that first appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice, the New York Review of Books, West, the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, and Zyzzyva

Paperback:

9780815605942 | Syracuse Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide. With the advent of glasnost, journalist Hochschild explores how Russians today are healing the wounds from an avalanche of long-repressed memories...read more
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9780670840915 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Explores how Russians are healing the wounds inflicted by long-repressed memories of the former leader and recounts the efforts of many to locate relatives who disappeared during Stalin's tenure

Paperback:

9780140157956 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1995), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide.

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