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Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

Picador
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Indian Summer During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. While...
  
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An American Betrayal
Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears

A John Macrae Book
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears Though the tragedy of the...
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Midnight Rising
John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Henry Holt and Co.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony...
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102 Minutes
The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Times Books
"102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and...
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The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives

Picador
There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. Political scientist Gilbert Achcar analyzes the...
  
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Churchill's Empire
The World That Made Him and the World He Made

A John Macrae Book
The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded A charmer and a bully, Winston...
  
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Reset
Iran, Turkey, and America's Future

Times Books
The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East What can the United...
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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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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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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 Night to Remember

Holt Paperbacks
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First...
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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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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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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West

Holt Paperbacks
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally...
  
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To Hell and Back

Holt Paperbacks
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback Originally published in 1949,...
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The Historical Atlas of New York City, Second Edition
A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History

Holt Paperbacks
A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book The rich and eminently browsable visual guide to the history of New York, in an all-new second...
  
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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 Woman in Berlin
Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in...
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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 Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

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“Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.”—The Christian Science Monitor The modern...
  
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A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

Holt Paperbacks
Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a...
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Class Matters

Times Books
The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of...
  
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A People's History of American Empire
American Empire Project

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 in...
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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...