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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
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Bag Man
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JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956
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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
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Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
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The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
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3.95 avg rating — 540 ratings
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The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust
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4.09 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942
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4.42 avg rating — 772 ratings
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
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3.83 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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3.12 avg rating — 6,404 ratings
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Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
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3.99 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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4.43 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
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4.19 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
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4.04 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
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3.92 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
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4.14 avg rating — 1,480 ratings
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
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3.73 avg rating — 12,993 ratings
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A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
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4.10 avg rating — 12,635 ratings
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The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
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4.20 avg rating — 2,353 ratings
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A Curious History of Sex
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Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
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Killer Women: Chilling, Dark and Gripping True Crime Stories of Women Who Kill
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America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
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Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
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Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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4.03 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
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They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty
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The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
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George III: Majesty and Madness
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The History Makers: 2,500 Years of Shaping the Past
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
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Britain and the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire: British Diplomacy and the Birth of the Modern Middle East
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American Catholics: A History
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Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
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Warrior Saints: Four Centuries of Sikh Military History (Volume 2) (Warrior Saints, 2)
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
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The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
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Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
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Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott
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American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future
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The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution
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The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
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The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
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The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged
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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945
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Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
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