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A World of Trouble
The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there...
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Forbidden Nation
A History of Taiwan
Palgrave Macmillan
A gripping history of Taiwan and its tense relations with China
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The Merchant of Power
Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis
Palgrave Macmillan
The dramatic tale of the man who created the modern city--and ended up at the center of America's first corporate scandal
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Between Two Streams
A Diary from Bergen-Belsen
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
At the height of the Holocaust it was Nazi policy to preserve small groups of "privileged" Jews for possible use in exchanges with Allied-held German...
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Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World
Equiptment, Combat Skills, and Tactics
Fighting Techniques
Thomas Dunne Books
From the age of the Huns to the forcing open of Japan, an in depth account of Asian military history. 
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The Whisperers
Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Picador
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "A tremendous achievement."--The Sunday Times (London) The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this...
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In Triumph's Wake
Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory
St. Martin's Press
The powerful and moving story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their daughters. Queen Isabella of Castile, Empress Maria...
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Sovereign Ladies
Sex, Sacrifice, and Power---The Six Reigning Queens of England
St. Martin's Griffin
In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination...
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Lessons in Disaster
McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Times Books
A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war’s architects I had...
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A Life in Twilight
The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer
St. Martin's Press
A Life in Twilight reveals the least-known and most enigmatic period of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life, from the public humiliation he endured after the 1954...

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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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Night
Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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The Day of Battle
The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Holt Paperbacks
“A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York Times In...
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The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
Picador
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction...
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An Army at Dawn
The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
Holt Paperbacks
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
Rediscovering the New World
Henry Holt and Co.
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Picador
"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey,...
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Why Marines Fight
St. Martin's Griffin
“Why Marines Fight is a candid collection of courage and esprit de corps that serves as a reminder that when America needs a real hero, it doesn’t need to look...
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The Last Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Henry Holt and Co.
The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John...
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In a Time of War
The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002
Henry Holt and Co.
The dramatic story of West Point’s class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon...
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Sniper One
On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq
St. Martin's Press
When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning...
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FDR: The First Hundred Days
Hill and Wang
The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt’s first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent...
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The H. L. Hunley
The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Hill and Wang
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy’s H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy...
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A People's History of American Empire
Metropolitan Books
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication...