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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
$19.99 Add to cart“A remarkable–and singularly chilling–glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book…represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.”–Newsweek
Christopher R.
- Author: Browning, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062303023
- Language: English
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
$18.00 Add to cartThis disturbing expos? describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Euro… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Paul L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1633884783
- Language: English
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
$24.00 Add to cartIn Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides.
Setting the scene
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128602
- Language: English
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Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
$18.99 Add to cartIn order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and
- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1622037529
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
C
- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
$9.99 Add to cartUpdated with enlightening new material, this is the complete, definitive edition of Anne Frank‘s diary, “the single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust” (The New York Times Book Review) … [more below]
- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0553577123
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Berlin Before and After: A Cautionary Mirror for Our Times
$32.00 Add to cart“Delightfully original, brilliantly conceived, witty, and poignant.” –Brenda Wineapple
Berlin is more than a city; it’s a survivor, an enigma, and a mirror to the world, a unique place whose recent pa
- Author: Lesser, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321351
- Language: English
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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
$27.00 Add to cartA timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz.
The denial of the H- Author: Lipstadt, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0452272742
- Language: English
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When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke, the Country–And Led Us to Today
$35.00 Add to cartThe panoramic story of the 1980s, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transform… [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0593300203
- Language: English
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Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Extraordinary Spy
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor (“John le Carr?’s nonfiction counterpart”–The New York Times) comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the story of a Russian double agen… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0593728122
- Language: English
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Something New Under the Sun
$21.99 Add to cartHumans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and espec
- Author: McNeill, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324079347
- Language: English
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Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
$19.00 Add to cart#1 International Bestseller * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker
In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes, this “profound…comic…[a- Author: Dunthorne, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1982180765
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95 Add to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
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Los M?dicos de Auschwitz / The Doctors of Auschwitz
$21.95 Add to cartUn testimonio espeluznante sobre la actuaci?n de los m?dicos para ejecutar la Soluci?n Final en el m?s infame de los campos nazis del Tercer Reich.
27 de enero de 1945. Las tropas sovi?ticas entran por
- Author: Halioua, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 6073934327
- Language: Spanish
