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The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Stalingrad by Antony Beevor What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro Robert Kennedy by Evan Thomas Dove by Robin Lee Graham
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2059 THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP — 2727 members — last activity 13 hours, 12 min ago
A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more
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