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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman The Rape of Nanking by Iris Shun-Ru Chang The Secret History by Donna Tartt The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy American Gods by Neil Gaiman Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" by Patrick J. Buchanan All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Shun-Ru Chang
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It is about the power of cultural forces either to make devils of us all, to strip away that thin veneer of social restraint that makes humans humane, or to reinforce it.
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