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History - Modern (1750+)
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
United States. Office of Strategic Services
A tiny, ordinary act—a misplaced file, a dulled tool, a pedantic question—can be more effective than an explosion. This manual reveals how the smallest frictions can grind a massive, organized machine to a halt.
The War in the Air
Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
The history of human flight moved from the realm of idle dreams to the machinery of global conflict in the span of a single generation, changing the nature of warfare forever.
India, Its Life and Thought
John P. (John Peter) Jones
The deepest gulfs are not found between nations, but in the silent, hidden places where two distinct worlds of human thought stand back-to-back, refusing to acknowledge the other’s sky.
The Jewish State
Theodor Herzl
A clear-eyed blueprint for a new national reality, this work argues that the Jewish question is not a social or religious concern, but an international political one that demands a sovereign territory of its own.
Impressions of a War Correspondent
George Lynch
The smoke of battle clears to reveal not glory, but the haunting, human cost of modern warfare. Witness the machinery of empire as it breaks the minds and bodies of those caught in its relentless, grinding gears.