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The Last Princess
The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
St. Martin's Griffin
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother—a powerful and insightful look at two...
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Only in New York
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City
St. Martin's Press
No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his...
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Meltdown
The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
St. Martin's Griffin
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea’s nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong-Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea...
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Apache Dawn
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
St. Martin's Press
The Apache attack helicopter is one of the world’s most awe - some weapons systems. Deployed for the first time in Afghanistan, it has already passed into...
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The Long Gray Line
The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Holt Paperbacks
“Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance . . . A very moving book.” —James Salter, The Washington Post Book World A classic of its...
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Sniper One
On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq
St. Martin's Griffin
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Africa in Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century
A Pan-African Perspective
Palgrave Macmillan
In this twenty-first century, Africa has become an important source of the United States’ energy imports and the world's natural resources. It has also become...
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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 Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa
Achieving Sustainable Development through Partnerships
Tauris Academic Studies
The politics of water have taken centre stage in global concerns about sustainable development. The Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa investigates a...
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Islands of the Mind
How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World
Palgrave Macmillan

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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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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 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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Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the...
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Lessons in Disaster
McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Holt Paperbacks
“A compelling portrait of a man once serenely confident, searching decades later for self-understanding.”—Richard Holbrooke, The New York Times Book Review I...
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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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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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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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Israel Is Real
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“It’s a great irony that Israel was more secure as an idea than it’s ever been as a nation with an army.” In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a...
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The Templars
The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades
St. Martin's Griffin
In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic caliphate for over four hundred years, fell to an army of Christian knights intent on liberating...
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Easy Company Soldier
The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
St. Martin's Griffin
Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to...
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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...
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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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