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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters
Giles Milton · Picador Usa, 2016. Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton... |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · Harper Pages: 449 Format: Hardcover |
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over... |
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Nicholas Guyatt · Basic Books Pages: 403 Format: Print book |
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution... |
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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II
Niall Barr · Pegasus Books Pages: 548 Format: Print book |
An authoritative and dramatic behind-the-scenes history of 'the Atlantic Alliance' during World War II. The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened... |
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Black flags : the rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick · Doubleday Pages: 344 Format: Print book |
WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION A Best Book of 2015 "The New York Times, " "The Washington Post, " "People" Magazine, "San Francisco Chronicle, " "Kansas City Star, " and "Kirkus Reviews" ""In... |
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Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Victor Ripp · Farrar Pages: 224 Format: Print book |
In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell's Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition... |
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The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
Peggy Noonan · Twelve Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover |
Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic) , her column in The Wall Street Journalis a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive and always... |
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Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape
Mark Felton · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover |
On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison.... |
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Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Dennis Ross · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Pages: 474 Format: Print book |
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History.
A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with Israel
When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy... |
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Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order
Eric Lee · The History Press Pages: 223 Format: Print book |
Operation Basalt was a raid carried out by British commandos on the island of Sark on the night of October 3-4, 1942. It was intended to reassure Channel Islanders that they had not been forgotten following their German occupation, to force the Germans to deploy resources, and to gain intelligence... |
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