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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Philippe Sands - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Baron Otto von Wchter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans,...
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Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War

Thurston Clarke - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revengeIn 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included...
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalins Gulags in Putins Russia

Masha Gessen - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago." (Kirkus Reviews) "A short, haunting and beautifully written book." (The Wall Street Journal) The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s...
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Hailed as "remarkable ... incredibly evocative and compelling" (The Washington Post) and "oral history at its finest" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) , Garrett M. Graff's The Only Plane in the Sky is the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet,...
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Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Millie Werber - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Judged only as a World War Two survivor's chronicle, Millie Werber's story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of 1942, transported...
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Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

Bill O'Reilly - Large Print Press; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback

The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict...
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

NATHANIEL PHILBRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat...
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic

Lawrence Millman - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly...
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Thant Myint-U - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How did one of the world's "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor's 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor's 2018) ?Less than a decade ago, the world cheered as a dictatorship crumbled and internationally beloved Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from twenty...
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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle of Echo Company to Survive the Vietnam War

Doug Stanton - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers, the harrowing, redemptive, and utterly unforgettable account of an American army reconnaissance platoon's fight for survival during the Vietnam...
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