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William L. Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The classic history of Adolph Hitler's rise to power and his dramatic defeat.
Score: 4.6 5 Reviews
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Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
A searing portrayal of modern warfare recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid. Reprint.
Score: 4.6 20 Reviews
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Jan T. Gross - Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
Score: 1.0 1 Review
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J. Christopher Herold - Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
Release Date: February 01, 2002
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David Willis McCullough - Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS chronicles the dramatic story behind the realization of the centuries-old dream of creating a ship passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the style that has made him a favorite of readers and reviewers alike, McCullough weaves astonishing engineering feats, ext ... More
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John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
<B>Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction</B>, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, <I>Embracing Defeat</I> is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Ja ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Yaffa Elaich - There Once Was a World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
This monumental work--in which the creator of the Tower of Life at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum documents the 900-year history of an Eastern European shtetl destroyed by the Nazis in 1941--is a singularly magnificent re-creation of a vanished place, people, and culture. 430 photos.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Phillip M. Hoose - We Were There, Too: Young People in Us History
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Score: 4.7 3 Reviews
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Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence
Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
$23.00 - $125.00
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Gore Vidal - United States: Essays, 1952-1992
A new paperback edition of the National Book Award-winning collection includes Gore Vidal's most noted essays on post-war America and its intellectual and political life during a time of upheaval, and provides insight into his humorous and uncompromising beliefs.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Joseph J. Ellis - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover(s) over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded foo ... More
Score: 4.5 4 Reviews
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Neil Sheehan - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Through a portrait of military advisor John Paul Vann, a journalist traces the arc of Americans' disillusionment and ambivalence about the War in Vietnam.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political and religious conflicts, and historical events as experienced by its citizens, what the author believes to be American missteps that contributed to cu ... More
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Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Library Edition
This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, who interviewed hundreds of former CIA employees (including several directors), and who pored through "the Company's" ar ... More
$88.00 - $120.00
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Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the ... More
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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
A <IT>New York Times<RO> reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the vio ... More
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Bernard Bailyn - Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
The life of the Massachusetts governor accused of accepting and promoting British for controls provides a loyalist perspective on the events that precipitated the American Revolution.
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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, who interviewed hundreds of former CIA employees (including several directors), and who pored through "the Company's" ar ... More
$18.00 - $28.00
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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
A <IT>New York Times<RO> reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the vio ... More
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William H. McNeill - The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community With a Retrospective Essay
This expansive survey of world history--completed in 1962--challenges the Oswald Spengler-Arnold Toynbee view of history as a series of separate cultures that evolved separately. McNeill proposes that as individual civilizations developed, they most likely influenced and resembled one another. He dr ... More
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David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this up with a study of equal quality....No one has written a book about the abolition of slavery that car ... More
$34.00 - $40.00
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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
A <IT>New York Times<RO> reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the vio ... More
$24.00 - $28.00
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Robert Manson Myers - The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War
The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation family, now available in a compact, illustrated volume for new readers and for all those who so greatly admired the original monumental edition. The letters vividly recreate a period of American history unparalleled for its drama and poignancy ... More
$27.00 - $27.00
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Walter Jackson Bate - Samuel Johnson
In this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. The first great modern biography of Johnson, it confirms that his statement ... More
$20.00 - $23.00
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James Carroll - An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, yet another ca ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
$0.75 - $10.59
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Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
Score: 4.0 3 Reviews
$8.00 - $30.00
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Winthrop D. Jordan - White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
A discussion of white racial attitudes from before the first Negroes set foot on American soil in 1619 to the present national situation.
$23.00 - $42.00
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Janet Flanner - Paris Journal: 1944-1955
The celebrated journalist's incisive accounts of social, political, and cultural developments in France.
$7.00 - $17.00
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