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The Fall of Rome
A Novel of a World Lost
St. Martin's Minotaur
476 A.D. The Roman Empire, staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts and riddled with corruption, now faces its greatest challenge—not only to its power...
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The Dead Travel Fast
Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
St. Martin's Griffin
The undead are everywhere. They’re not just in movies and books, but in commercials, fetish clubs, and even in your breakfast cereal. Bloodsuckers have become...
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Indian Summer
The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Picador
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In...
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Crescent and Star [Revised Edition]
Turkey Between Two Worlds
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head.” —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer In the first edition of this...
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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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Enemy of the State
The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
St. Martin's Press
At 12:21 p.m., on October 19, 2005, Saddam Hussein was escorted into the Courtroom of the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad for one of the most important and...
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The Time of Their Lives
The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors
Truman Talley Books
The golden age of book publishing, Al Silverman informs us with utter certainty, began in 1946 and lasted into the late 1970s and early 1980s. In his intimate...
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Nathan Hale
The Life and Death of America's First Spy
Thomas Dunne Books
The first biography in nearly a century of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot and our country’s first spy. Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale...
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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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American Transcendentalism
A History
Hill and Wang
American Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
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An Army at Dawn
The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
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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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Hill and Wang
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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our...
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We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories From Rwanda
Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...
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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...
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The Soprano State
New Jersey's Culture of Corruption
St. Martin's Press
The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the...
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