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Book cover of 1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies by Richard Vinen
Europe

1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.

The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary—around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. […Learn More]

Book Cover of Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan
Astronomy & Space Science

Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story “the best book on Apollo”: this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history.

When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon’s surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out . . . […Learn More]