 From archeaological discoveries to contemporary affairs, Atlas of World History presents a twenty-first-century view of the history of the whole world. |
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 At a few minutes past 4:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, August 31, 1983, a Korean Air Lines took off from the airport in Anchorage, Alaska, carrying 269 people: 240 passengers and 29 crew members. |
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 This book recounts the story of the Civil Rights Movement, from slavery up to the present day. |
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 A former draft resister who felt he had "a moral duty not to fight in Vietnam," Nicosia (Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac) interviewed some 600 men who did take part in the war and who then became active in the antiwar movement, or later worked as veterans' advocates. |
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 In this startingly honest book, an American writer of German-Christian descent describes the evolution of her poignant present-day friendship with a married pair of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. |
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 Describes in words and pictures the way that the ordinary soldier lived, fought and died in the conflict. |
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