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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L Shirer Publisher Comments Hailed as “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times), this definitive chronicle of Hitlers rise to power is back in hardcover with a new introductory essay by Ron Rosenbaum (Explaining Hitler and How the End... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 (62 Edition) by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tell Them We Remember by Susan D. Bachrach Publisher Comments Draws on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's collections of artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories to teach young people about this period of history.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Publisher Comments Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Polybius Synopsis In writing his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire, the Greek statesman Polybius set out to help his fellow-countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. This text presents a translation of his work.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Europe's Reformations 1450-1650 : Doctrine, Politics, and Community (2ND 06 Edition) by James D. Tracy Publisher Comments In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $30.35 New - Trade Paper
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Rape of Europa (94 Edition) by Lynn H. Nicholas Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Goddesses of Early Greece : a Collection of Pre-hellenic Myths ((Rev)92 Edition) by Charlene Spretnak Publisher Comments For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all time. Cicero comes to life in these pages and takes center... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Staff Pick I'm rather sure that all three of Stacy Schiff's previous works have been nominated for some award or another. With a pedigree like that, you know that her latest biography is bound to be a must-read. Stripping away all the previous misconceptions about... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson Staff Pick The rise of the Third Reich as observed by William Dodd, America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, and his free-spirited daughter is the chilling topic of Erik Larson's impressive new book. With his gift for narration, Larson has once again created... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Americans call the Second World War The Good War.” But before it even began, Americas wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz Bart Publisher Comments Published in sixteen languages and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Andre Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just is considered by many the single greatest novel of the Holocaust. This classic work -- long unavailable in a trade edition -- is one of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peloponnesian War 421-404 BC (02 Edition) by Philip Desouza Publisher Comments It is a testament to the fascination of the subject that even today the events of the Peloponnesian War are studied for what they can teach about diplomacy, strategy and tactics. This book reveals the darker side of Classical Greek civilization. From the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Escape From Sobibor (95 Edition) by Richard Rashke Publisher Comments Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance - in this case successful - by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Closing of the Western Mind (02 Edition) by Charles Freeman Publisher Comments A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantines adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization. When the Emperor Contstantine converted to... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander the Great by Tania Gergel Publisher Comments Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great was worshiped as a god during his lifetime, and his legend has only grown since? he remains in the forefront of the public imagination with no fewer than... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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