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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
by Nicholson Baker  
Publisher Comments Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh...
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over...
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by Patrick J. Buchanan Publisher Comments Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men&#...
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Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
by Erna Paris Publisher Comments Long Shadows offers a personal examination into the shifting terrain of war and memory that seeks to understand how nations come to terms with their most painful history. Combining storytelling with observation, Paris takes the reader on a remarkable...
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Postwar : History of Europe Since 1945 (05 Edition)
by Tony Judt Publisher Comments Tony Judt's POSTWAR is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated...
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W Tuchman
Publisher Comments "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-...
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Century
by Peter Jennings Publisher Comments What was it like to watch the Wright Brothers soar into the sky? To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio? To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I? To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929, or experience the...
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky
Powells.com Staff Pick Kurlansky specializes in unlikely subject matter that might, from the outset, seem dry as toast, but in his hands becomes a delicious baguette. Following Salt, 1968 might seem like more boomer navel-gazing but it's actually an insightful and gripping...
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt Publisher Comments Tony Judt's Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty...
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Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time
by Bernard Wasserstein Publisher Comments Here is the definitive history of contemporary Europe, a controversial but authoritative and lively narrative that is destined to become the standard account of the period from 1914 to the present. In this superb volume, esteemed historian Bernard...
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Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World (01 Edition)
by Margaret Macmillan
Publisher Comments This prize-winning national bestseller is the landmark, personality-filled history of the Paris peace conference of 1919, now in paperback....
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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by Tony Judt Publisher Comments From one of our greatest historians and public intellectuals, reflections on a twentieth century that is turning into ancient history, when it's not being displaced by myth or forgotten entirely, with unprecedented speed and at great cost The...
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
by Peter Clarke Publisher Comments A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower—published on the sixtieth anniversary of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine. “I have not become the...
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In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
by Geert Mak Synopsis From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of...
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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe
by James J. Sheehan Publisher Comments An eminent historian offers a sweeping look at Europe's tumultuous twentieth century, showing how the rejection of violence after World War II transformed a continent In the last decade we've seen an ever-widening rift between the United States and...
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King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
by Catrine Clay Publisher Comments The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart. Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first...
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Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (Wiles Lectures)
by S A Smith Publisher Comments A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Russia...
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Anatomy of Fascism (04 Edition)
by Robert O. Paxton Publisher Comments What "is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what...
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Age of Extremes : a History of the World, 1914-1991 (94 Edition)
by Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher Comments Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his...
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments Ferguson reinterprets the modern era and the central paradox of why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing....
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