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“gerard degroot”

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  • The Bomb

    A Life

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery.In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Back in Blighty

    The British at Home in World War One

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people. As its reverberations were so long-lasting and significant, it is easy to assume that the social consequences were as profound.In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Seventies Unplugged

    A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    If the 1960s was the decade of peace, love and understanding, the 1970s was the decade of glitter and glam rock. Or was it? Gerard DeGroot peels away the polyester to examine what really happened in a decade that began with the death of Jimi Hendrix and ended with Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in 10 Downing Street.Some commentators have written off the Seventies as a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Selling Ronald Reagan

    The Emergence of a President

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn. To most people, he seemed a has-been actor, a right-wing extremist and a 'dunce'. Journalists therefore ridiculed his aspirations to be governor of California. No one, however, doubted his incredible ability to communicate with a crowd. In order to succeed in his campaign, Reagan had to be packaged as an outsider - an antidote ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Natives

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  • Dark Sun

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  • Disraeli

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