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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Ambitious…. The truth is that Fromkin’s outline is persuasively thought out and presented.”–The Washington Post Book World
As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trou- Author: Fromkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0679766693
- Language: English
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No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
$40.00 Add to cartThis by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continual… [more below]
- Author: Heath, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0805243712
- Language: English
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Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy
$24.95 Read moreExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer
In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured t- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1839767251
- Language: English
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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
$22.99 Add to cartNew York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller
Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.
Two leading authorities–an acclaimed historian
- Author: Petraeus, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293145
- Language: English
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Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
$25.00 Add to cartThe first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst.
Reinhold Kulle s- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Soffer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835545
- Language: English
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The Official German Report
$66.65 Add to cartFeatured on Rachel Maddow’s Ultra Podcast.
REPRINT EDITION
This book presents the shocking findings from O. John Rogge’s stunning investigation into the Nazi infiltration of the United States Congress.
- Author: Rogge, O. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79887E+12
- Language: English
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Operation Nightfall: The Web of Spies
$15.99 Add to cartPoland, 1948
Former SOE operative Luba Haas and MI6 agent Natalie Jenkins secretly enter Poland to meet with a sleeper agent and anti-communist insurgents not realizing their mission has been compromi
- Author: Wegener, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan
$32.95 Add to cartIn America’s Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in
- Author: Wilson, James Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2024
- ISBN10: 150177607X
- Language: English
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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
$40.00 Add to cartA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a dec- Author: Gurstein, Rochelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300215487
- Language: English
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Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century
$22.17 Read moreThrough a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to p… [more below]
- Author: Schell, Orville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0812976258
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them
We- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014323
- Language: English
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What They Didn’t Burn: Uncovering My Father’s Holocaust Secrets
$17.95 Add to cartWhat if you uncovered a cache of buried Nazi documents that revealed your father as a man very different than the one you knew-or thought you knew? In this poignant memoir, Mel Laytner, a former repor… [more below]
- Author: Laytner, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1684631033
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95 Read moreThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- Language: English
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Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
$22.00 Add to cartA “highly readable and compelling” account (Science) of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
“Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a- Author: Dimsdale, Joel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271034
- Language: English
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
$10.99 Read more2002 Sibert Medal Winner
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six milli- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0618548831
- Language: English
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The Pianist (Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition): The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
$18.00 Read moreThe 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman’s son, Andrzej
On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin- Author: Szpilman, Wladyslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1250249546
- Language: English
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
$27.00 Add to cartACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST – 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER – 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES – BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN A… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Gary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 110197107X
- Language: English
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The Journey of a Hidden Child
$17.95 Add to cartBelgium, 1941. Rosa and Charles Russ give their newborn son, Jean-Pierre, to their non-Jewish friends for safekeeping; they are not aware that the couple is involved in espionage for the British, putt
- Series: Jewish Children in the Holocaust
- Author: Pila, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276546
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$32.99 Add to cartEqual parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest th
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371405
- Language: English
