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  • Making Sense of Somali History: (Volume Two) by Abdullahi, Abdurahman
    Abdurahman Abdullahi

    Making Sense of Somali History: (Volume Two)

    The collapse of the postcolonial Somali state in 1991 and the consequent outbreak of civil war drastically transformed the socio-political landscape in Somalia. Somalis reverted to the pre-colonial state of affairs and sought refuge in their clan attachments. Local authorities were contested by the...
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  • Making Sense of Somali History: Volume 1 by Abdullahi, Abdurahman
    Abdurahman Abdullahi

    Making Sense of Somali History: Volume 1

    In the last three decades, Somalia has been associated with such horrible terms as 'state collapse', 'civil wars', 'foreign intervention', 'warlordism', 'famine', 'piracy' and 'terrorism'. This depiction was in contradiction to its earlier images as the cradle of the human race, the kernel of...
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  • Hopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Ed by Ahimbisibwe, Asa
    Asa Ahimbisibwe

    Hopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Ed

    Hopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them, overcomes the challenges of poverty and cultural barriers with the help of his uneducated parents, who decided to do something that...
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  • Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State by Dworkin, Ira
    Ira Dworkin

    Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State

    In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial...
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  • Angola by Bryan, Bethany
    Bethany Bryan

    Angola

    The African nation of Angola has faced more than its share of conflict, originally colonized by Portugal in the sixteenth century and then embattled by a civil war that began in 1975 and lasted for almost thirty years. Today, Angola is a combination of...
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  • The Historian's Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History /]cedited by Mark D. Larabee by Larabee, Mark D.
    Mark D. Larabee

    The Historian's Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History /]cedited by Mark D. Larabee

    Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness"...
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  • Beyond the Open Well by Hebert, Jean M.
    Jean M. Hebert

    Beyond the Open Well

    Author: Jean M. HebertISBN-10: 1434373665ISBN-13: 9781434373663Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2008Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
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  • A Culture Worth Saving: Never too late by Jones, Robert P.
    Robert P. Jones

    A Culture Worth Saving: Never too late

    From an Early and Colorful Past to the Present: The People Behind Florida's Fishing Industry Florida and fishing have been synonymous since Admiral Pedro Men ndez de Avil s founded St. Augustine in 1565. He brought myriad tradesmen, including net makers and fishermen who...
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  • Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned by Allard, Kenneth
    Kenneth Allard

    Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned

    Author: Kenneth AllardISBN-10: 0898758858ISBN-13: 9780898758856Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.04w x 0.42d
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  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa by Lemarchand, Rene
    Rene Lemarchand

    The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation--most infamously...
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  • Ex. Italian Somaliland by Pankhurst, E. Sylvia
    E. Sylvia Pankhurst

    Ex. Italian Somaliland

    Ex-Italian Somaliland describes the struggle of Somaliland under the Italian government, who encouraged traffic of slaves, evicted people from their land, and eventually used the colony as a base of aggression against Ethiopia. Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (May 5, 1882 - September 27, 1960) was...
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  • Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism by Stanard, Matthew G.
    Matthew G. Stanard

    Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism

    Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908. For the next half century, Belgium not only ruled an African empire but also, through widespread, enduring, and eagerly...
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  • Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual by Turner, Victor
    Victor Turner

    Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual

    The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'u), and an analysis of the system of ideas underlying more than a dozen modes of divination. Written by an internationally-known social scientist, the book demonstrates...
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  • Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda by Fujii, Lee Ann
    Lee Ann Fujii

    Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda

    In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative...
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  • Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North by Hahn, Emily
    Emily Hahn

    Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

    A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer when Congo Solo was published. Here - restored to the form she had intended - is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing first-hand account...
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  • The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States by Pikirayi, Innocent
    Innocent Pikirayi

    The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States

    Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long contentious history of the remains of the remarkable cyclopean masonry, ranging from mighty capitals of traditional kings to humble farmsteads. Forming...
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  • Coltan by Nest, Michael
    Michael Nest

    Coltan

    A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or 'coltan' - an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops. Then, in 2000, reports began to leak out of Congo: of mines deep in the jungle where...
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  • Conflict and Collaboration: The Kingdoms of Western Uganda, 1890-1907 by Steinhart, Edward I.
    Edward I. Steinhart

    Conflict and Collaboration: The Kingdoms of Western Uganda, 1890-1907

    Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in...
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  • A Political History of the Civil War in Angola 1974-1990 by James III, W. Martin
    W. Martin James III

    A Political History of the Civil War in Angola, 1974-1990

    When Portugal's colonial rule in Angola ended in 1974, three liberation groups-UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola)-agreed to a tripartite movement for the fledgling...
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  • Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906 by Morel, E. D.
    E. D. Morel

    Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906

    A documented and highly charged contemporary indictment of the Belgian exploitation of Africa during the height of the imperialistic age, first published in 1906 with the support of British antislavery organizations. This expose, by a horrified British investigator, of the atrocities committed against the...
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  • A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by French, Howard W.
    Howard W. French

    A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

    In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...
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  • Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902 by Low, D. A.
    D. A. Low

    Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902

    During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20-30 African kingdoms. In his magisterial new study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were able to dominate...
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  • Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by Vanthemsche, Guy
    Guy Vanthemsche

    Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

    While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have examined the repercussions of their respective empires on colonial powers such as the United...
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  • Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by Vanthemsche, Guy
    Guy Vanthemsche

    Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

    While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have examined the repercussions of their respective empires on colonial powers such as the United...
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  • Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa by Fabian, Johannes
    Johannes Fabian

    Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa

    Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration...
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  • The Africans by Lamb, David
    David Lamb

    The Africans

    Author: David LambISBN-10: 0394753089ISBN-13: 9780394753089Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/1987Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
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  • The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo by Liebowitz, Daniel
    Daniel Liebowitz

    The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo

    Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at...
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  • The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to C. 1900 C.E. by Klieman, Kairn A.
    Kairn A. Klieman

    The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to C. 1900 C.E.

    Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. It is...
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  • Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Reel, Monte
    Monte Reel

    Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm

    In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins--two of which were stuffed and brought on...
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  • Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Jeal, Tim
    Tim Jeal

    Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

    From the best-selling author of Stanley, a riveting account of the explorers who risked everything in their search for the source of the Nile Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It...
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  • Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa by Vansina, Jan M.
    Jan M. Vansina

    Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa

    Vansina's scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western...
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  • Ismailïa: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of by Baker, Samuel White
    Samuel White Baker

    Ismail?: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of

    Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was a traveller and explorer. This two-volume work of 1874 is his account of a military expedition under Ismail Pasha (Ismail the Magnificent, 1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the slave-trade of central Africa between 1869 and 1873. Having...
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  • With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests by Grubb, Norman P.
    Norman P. Grubb

    With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests

    ""With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests"" is a book written by Norman P. Grubb about the life and adventures of Charles Thomas Studd, a British missionary who dedicated his life to spreading the Christian faith in the Congo forests. The book provides a...
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  • Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley by Berns, Marla C.
    Marla C. Berns

    Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley

    Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationThe Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region, the Valley extends from the...
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  • Porcupine in a Python's Throat: The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa by Achankeng, Fonkem
    Fonkem Achankeng

    Porcupine in a Python's Throat: The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa

    Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python's Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons' (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how the...
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  • Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta
    Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book...
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  • Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B.
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

    "Between the sterner flights of logic, I have sought to set some little alightings of what may be poetry. They are tributes to Beauty, unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I know not whether I mean the...
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  • Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara by Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine
    Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

    Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara

    This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major themes--population,...
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  • The Great African War by Reyntjens, Filip
    Filip Reyntjens

    The Great African War

    This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling...
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  • Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Braathen, E.
    E. Braathen

    Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle...
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  • The Rebels' Hour by Joris, Lieve
    Lieve Joris

    The Rebels' Hour

    Lieve Joris has long been considered "one of the best journalists in the world" (Lib馥acute;ration, France) and in The Rebels' Hour she illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely, complicated man--a rebel leader named Assani who becomes a...
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  • Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: Vol I by Caillié, René
    René Caillié

    Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: Vol I

    In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as vital links in the establishment of new trade routes to the African interior. In 1822...
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  • Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Sacks, Ruth
    Ruth Sacks

    Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

    Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Za?e. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious...
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  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...
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  • Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons by Anyangwe, Carlson
    Carlson Anyangwe

    Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons

    There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the...
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  • American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa by Mohun, Arwen P.
    Arwen P. Mohun

    American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa

    This biography of "African explorer" Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa. Richard Dorsey Mohun spent his career circulating among the eastern United States, the cities and...
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  • South Sudan: A Slow Liberation by Thomas, Edward
    Edward Thomas

    South Sudan: A Slow Liberation

    In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the...
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  • The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean by Nicolini, Beatrice
    Beatrice Nicolini

    The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean

    The Indian Ocean was long one of the world's most important trade zones, controlled by Arab and Indian merchants. But in the 19th century, the British-French rivalry spilled over into the Indian Ocean. Pirates looted, adventurers sought their fortunes, and Italian spies and American...
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  • Vietnam War: Defining Moment for America - Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer by Dileonardo, Joseph
    Joseph Dileonardo

    Vietnam War: Defining Moment for America - Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer

    Former Army Captain, Joseph W. DiLeonardo takes us on a personal journey that spans a century. You are introduced to his family and follow their lives from Italy and the "dust bowl" of Kansas to Sunnyvale, California, where Joseph and his siblings were born...
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  • African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich by Brought Alive, History
    History Brought Alive

    African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich

    Explore The World of African History, Mythology & Hoodoo Journey through centuries of fascinating figures, kingdoms and events that have shaped Africa and learn all about the mystical world of HoodooIncluded in this Captivating 2 Book Collection are: African History: Explore The Amazing Timeline...
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