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  Ataturk - Patrick Kinross - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=-G-iBD_fW4IC&pg=PT35&lpg=PT35&dq=ataturk+picardie+kalpak&source=bl&ots=enhdurKd-q&sig=rMs5nD03Az

  The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself.…

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  The Turks Today - Andrew Mango - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=t0JwYHsv-6AC&pg=PT33&lpg=PT33&dq=Greeks+flew+Turkey+after+1955&source=bl&ots=5txBTr48Lm&sig=Mg3

  Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of civilised…

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  America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation - Joshua Kendall - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=Cf01AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64#v=onepage&q&f=false

  When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred…

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  The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the ... - Peter Tomsen - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=86w4DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT77#v=onepage&q&f=false

  As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the region's conflicts over the last two decades.…

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  War of the Gods - Poul Anderson - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=6o787I07B2oC&pg=PT11&dq=%22a+norseman+who+had+seized+mastery+over+a+goodly+number+of+Finns%22&h

  The story of the great King Hadding is one of the darkest and most violent to come down to us from the old North. Hadding was raised by giants far from his rightful throne, as his father, a Danish king, was slain shortly after Hadding's birth. But the time…

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  Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure - Artemis Cooper - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=Fb3I309jFbYC&pg=PA1829&dq=Lewis+Leigh+Fermor&hl=de&sa=X&ei=AtZ0UsnrMcndswaC6YCwAg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwA

  Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between…

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  Arthur Miller - Christopher Bigsby - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=ttTsr7Qr44kC&pg=PT129&dq=Leopold+Atlas+writer&hl=de&sa=X&ei=BsP-UsDSMYiUtQaVh4HwCA&ved=0CC8Q6AEw

  Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular…

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  America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation - Joshua Kendall - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=Cf01AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64

  When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred…

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  The Somme - Peter Hart, Nigel Steel - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=oI0rQzeMz2UC&pg=PT39

  A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What…

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  Miller's Art Deco: Living with the Art Deco Style - Judith Miller - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=LIkDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA95

  With its streamlined shapes and forward-looking approach, the Art Deco style still looks modern today. In the 1920s and 1930s, designers and craftsmen made innovative use of both natural and man-made materials to produce elegant pieces that broke with…

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