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A Wall in Palestine

Picador
An incisive report on the West Bank Barrier—one of the most significant developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in our lifetime
  
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The Last Days of the Romanovs
Tragedy at Ekaterinburg

St. Martin's Griffin
The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16–17, 1918 has long been a defining moment in world history. This book gives a riveting...
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Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine

Holt Paperbacks
“A damning new history . . .Jeffreys brings a rare combination of forensic acumen and narrative flair.” —Chicago Tribune At its peak in the 1930s, the German...
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Clash of Extremes
The Economic Origins of the Civil War

Hill and Wang
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more...
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Peter the Great

St. Martin's Press
There has never been a more remarkable national leader in modern history than Peter the Great (1672–1725). He was a giant in every way. In physical stature,...
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Towers of Gold
How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California

St. Martin's Griffin
Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he...
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Our Times
The Age of Elizabeth II

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that...
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None Left Behind
The 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death

St. Martin's Press
The 10th Mountain Division is known as the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Today the War on Terror has drawn it to Afghanistan and Iraq. To Lieutenant...
  
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Angel of Vengeance
The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination

St. Martin's Griffin
In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver...
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In Triumph's Wake
Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory

St. Martin's Griffin
“An excellent, comprehensive study of six fascinating women and the troubled times that shaped their lives.”—Publishers Weekly Exhaustively researched and...

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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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Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
American Empire Project

Holt Paperbacks
A New York Times bestseller, Nemesis is Chalmers Johnson’s “fiercest book—and his best” (Andrew J. Bacevich) In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers...
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All But My Life

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...
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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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Kill Bin Laden
A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man

St. Martin's Griffin
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world—an operation of such magnitude that it couldn’t be handled by just any military or intelligence force....
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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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A Voyage Long and Strange
On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Picador
W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he...
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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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Fly by Wire
The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying...
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A Rumor of War

Holt Paperbacks
The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
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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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The Remains of Company D
A Story of the Great War

St. Martin's Press
“Not since Flags of Our Fathers—no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory—no, make that, Not ever—has an American nonfiction...
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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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Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America’s...