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Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine

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“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

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“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

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“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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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown
The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

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“A rip-snortin’ story of shipwreck, intrigue, horror, courage, risk, luck and will . . . gripping.”—Publishers Weekly The English were latecomers to America,...
  
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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

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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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For the Love of Animals
The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement

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“An exceptionally interesting history of the animal protection movement . . . For the Love of Animals is exemplary in every respect.”—The Washington Post Book...
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The Last Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

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“Piercing and painstakingly researched, it’s political history written right.”—New York magazine The Last Campaign is Thurston Clarke’s bestselling,...
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The Book of Love
The Story of the Kamasutra

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An “enticing . . . elegant and stylish” biography of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world’s most famous sex manual (The New York Review of Books)...
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The Lions of Iwo Jima

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“In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America...
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In a Time of War
The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002

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The “inspiring and heartbreaking” story of West Point’s class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime (The Washington Post) They came to...

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Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
American Empire Project

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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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The Day of Battle
The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

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“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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A Rumor of War

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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

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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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In Harm's Way
The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

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Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the bestselling account of America’s worst naval disaster—and of the heroism of the men who,...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West

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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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A Night to Remember

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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 Sorrows of Empire
Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
American Empire Project

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"Impressive . . . a powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy." -Los Angeles Times Book Review, front page In the years after the Soviet...
  
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To Hell and Back

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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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Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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“It’s hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light.”—The New York Times Book Review The...
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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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Empire's Workshop
Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
American Empire Project

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“Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present.” —Naomi...
  
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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary
The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember. Sunday,...
  
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A Peace to End All Peace
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval...