John Reed
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House document volume 81st Congress, 2nd session, no. 383
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
81 p. ; 23 cm.
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Ten Days that Shook the World is John Reed's phenomenal firsthand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. A socialist journalist from the United States, John Reed was open about his Bolshevik sympathies and used his support to gain access to officials, witness speeches by the likes of Lenin and Trotsky, and observe the tumultuous overthrow of Kerensky's...
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In 1913, at the height of the Mexican Revolution, magazine correspondent John Reed headed South to cover the story of the year. His travels with a group of rebels that included the legendary Pancho Villa earned him everlasting fame as a reporter and left behind a series of unmatched portraits of a people, a place and a time.
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Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xix, 351 pages ; 20 cm.
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This book is the author's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and of the chance comments of bystanders, and set against an idealized backdrop of soldiers, sailors, peasants, and the proletariat uniting to...
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 6
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It's Devil's Night in New York, and this year's Halloween festivities prove especially deadly. Before their date, Mike Hammer's love interest is murdered in her own apartment. With his heart broken and his own life on the line, Hammer must track down the heinous murderer. With Hammer's friends being targeted, he discovers a pattern that points to a cultist killer that he had locked up before. Mike must solve the case quickly, or he could be next.