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Dark Side of the Moon by Gerard DeGroot
Category: History
For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Every boy dreamed of being an astronaut; every girl dreamed of marrying one. Americans drank Tang, bought "space pens" that wrote upside down, wore clothes made of space age Mylar, and took imaginary rockets to the Moon from themes parks ...Show more
Dark Side of the Moon : The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest by Gerard DeGroot
Category: History
For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Every boy dreamed of being an astronaut; every girl dreamed of marrying one. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, and 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a p ...Show more
SIXTIES UNPLUGGED, THE by DEGROOT, GERARD
Category: Culture
The 1960s is a decade often seen through a rose-tinted lens: an era when the young would not only rule the world but change it, too, for the better. But does such fond nostalgia really stand up? Vivid, rich in anecdote, sometimes angry and always persuasive, The Sixties Unplugged is a hugely entertainin ...Show more
The First World War by Gerard DeGroot
Category: Military | Series: Twentieth Century Wars
This work aims to explain World War I in a manner the lay person can understand, and more advanced readers will still find intriguing. It covers a broad canvas, but does so with great economy. The origins of the war, both diplomatic and social, are discussed and the reader is then taken through the majo ...Show more
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade by Gerard DeGroot
Category: History
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 ...Show more
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