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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World by Robin Wright Publisher Comments A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book by a preeminent reporter takes readers deep into the struggle within the Muslim world where a growing movement defies and challenges extremism and repudiates Osama bin Laden, his deviant doctrine,... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B R Myers Publisher Comments Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals by Ken Ballen Publisher Comments Drawing on unprecedented access, a leading terrorism expert profiles six terrorists to offer an astonishing new portrait of our enemies as we have never seen them before. Why does someone become an Islamic radical? What are his deepest beliefs? And is... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Life of Columba: An Abridged Translation of Adamnan's Vita by Adamnan Publisher Comments The great sixth century saint and founder-abbot of Iona, St. Columba, left a mark on history that endures to this day far beyond Celtic lands. An account of his life and deeds has come down to us in the writings of Adamnan, ninth abbot of Iona, who drew... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis Publisher Comments Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, London was reborn to become the greatest metropolis of the age. London Rising tells the story of five extraordinary men and the city they transformed. By the middle of the seventeenth century... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick The heyday of whaling examined through the plight of the Whaleship Essex. This is the best sort of popular history writing.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Bolivia (Brief History) by Waltraud Queisr Morales Publisher Comments Recent decades have witnessed major reform within Bolivia: an impressive democratic and economic... (read more) List Price $58.50 Your price: $11.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey Through Chinese History by Joseph W. Esherick Publisher Comments "Esherick looks at familiar historical events and processes anew, enriching that history with great personal depth. There is really nothing like it." William T. Rowe, author of China's Last Empire: The Great... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons by Al Ventner Publisher Comments It is called the "Club of Nine," the exclusive group of nations that have detonated nuclear weapons. Apart from the major powers, its membership also includes, India, Pakistan, and Israel. More recently, its membership was blighted by North Korea. Based... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning Publisher Comments The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B Oren Publisher Comments This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America"s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, 'If you think America"s entanglement in the Middle East began with... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments National Book Award-winning memoir of exile from a tangerine-colored paradise: “Eire has done a splendid job….Masterfully written, bursting with wonderful details and images and populated by characters so well described that they seem to be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments "Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden Publisher Comments No period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underlying religious motivations for the savage violence and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Anderson Synopsis Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Andersons... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age by William Manchester Publisher Comments From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments < P> The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up& ndash; to& ndash; date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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