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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to DemocracyThe rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December 1955, when Italy...
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Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the HolocaustOne and a half million Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. The Nazis' goal to eradicate the entire Jewish population in Europe included children--from infants to teenagers--who were targeted as part of the coordinated genocide that led to the murder of six million...
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Confronting Bad History -- How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation TrialConfronting Bad History is about our history's most infamous villain and debunks the conspiracy story that Lincoln' assassin escaped justice. John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended...
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Five Days in November: In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of Jfk's AssassinationSecret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas,...
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The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the WorldA riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more. "A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history.... Grand in scope and grounded in decades of...
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Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural PhenomenaAn immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau's final project--a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new. Part blueprint for a major new work, part scientific chart, and part re-envisioning of the way...
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Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar RepublicDemocracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany's first democracy endured for fourteen tumultuous years and culminated with the horrific rise of the Third Reich. As one...
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Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American WestThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West "A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of colonialism at its center."--Ned Blackhawk,...
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American LiteratureA finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A delightful and majestic reckoning with the ascent of American fiction in the twentieth century through the prism of the under-known man who had an astonishing amount to do with it Malcolm...
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The Greatest Generation#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career lasted more than fifty years."Moving . . . a tribute to the...
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Sitting Bull's War: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fight for Buffalo and Freedom on the PlainsThe dramatic story of America's greatest Indian war told from perspective of the Lakotas and the Northern Cheyennes, as they fight for their way of life on the buffalo prairie. In this deeply affecting account of America's greatest Indian war, readers are quickly immersed...
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The Power and the Glory: The History of the World CupA definitive new history of the world's most watched sporting event--just in time for the 2026 tournament "Wilson is the game's pre-eminent popular historian."--Observer (UK) Since 1930, the World Cup has become a truly global obsession. It is the most watched sporting event on...
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Korea: War Without EndA ground-breaking history of this global conflict including the errors and miscalculations made on both sides. Korea: War Without End examines the stand-off between East and West in Korea that ultimately defined the second half of the 20th century. It provides a critical analysis...
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USAWhen eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell...
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." --Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc. "A monumental account of contemporary geopolitics"--Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism...
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Europe Without Borders: A HistoryThe contested creation of free movement--for people and goods--in the Schengen area of Europe Europe is a place of free movement among nations--or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross...
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Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American WestLegendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson--a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to Yellowstone becoming the first National Park and was a major influence on Ansel Adams In his...
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the JewsA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II--tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany's implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia In the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies' struggle against Nazism. Often...
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They Flew: A History of the ImpossibleAn award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance "Historically rich and superbly written."--David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Shortlisted for the International Society for Science and Religion Book Prize Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded...
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The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War IIFrom award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans'--and nation's--unhealed traumas In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those...
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