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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed
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The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall
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The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction
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The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend
by Joann Fletcher
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