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  Germany: Jekyll and Hyde Germany: Jekyll and Hyde

  Sebastian Haffner 

  A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote this book, GERMANY: JEKYLL AND HYDE, in an effort to help people understand the danger Hitler presented...

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  Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia

  George Orwell 

  Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion...

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  Team of Rivals, The Political... Team of Rivals, The Political Genius of Abraham...

  Doris Kearns Goodwin 

  "The Book that inspired Obama" Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, this multiple biography studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. It shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace.

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  The Post-American World And... The Post-American World And the Rise of the Rest

  Fareed Zakaria 

  "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global...

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  The Looming Tower: Al... The Looming Tower: Al Quaeda's Road to 9/11

  Lawrence Wright 

  'Wright’s brilliantly constructed narrative is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, he understands the motors of Islamist militancy… Moreover, he is a fine writer with an eye for the telling detail. Even those who think they know the story intimately will feel they are...

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  The Mammoth Book of... The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups: the 100 Most...

  Jon E. Lewis 

  Product Description This book covers The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion,Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, ElvisFluoridization, Martin Luther King's murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone Files, John Paul I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Lockerbie bombing, Black...

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  Terror and Consent: The Wars... Terror and Consent: The Wars For the 21st Century

  Philip Bobbit 

  Terror and Consent argues that, like so many states and civilizations in the past that suffered defeat, we are fighting the last war, with weapons and concepts that were useful to us then but have now been superseded. Philip Bobbitt argues that we need to reforge links that previous societies have made between law and strategy; to realize how the...

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  Luck of the Devil: The Story... Luck of the Devil: The Story of Operation Valkyrie

  Ian Kershaw 

  Presents an account of just what happened in those fateful days at Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters, when his opponents came so astonishingly close to assassinating what is one of the modern era's most terrible figures.'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down...

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  Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of... Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of...

  Charles Higham 

  Tells the story of an illegitimate child from Baltimore who rose to become the mistress of the king of England and brought about his abdication. This work is an account of the woman who very nearly became the Queen of England.The romance of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has been called the greatest love story of the twentieth century. However with the...

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  1000 Years of Annoying the... 1000 Years of Annoying the French

  Stephen Clarke 

  Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts'...

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  Eichmann in Jerusalem Eichmann in Jerusalem

  Hannah Arendt 

  Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the "New Yorker" in 1963. This revised edition of "Eichmann in Jerusalem" contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that...

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  Czechoslovakia: The State... Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed

  Mary Heimann 

  This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992-from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again. The common...

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  Helmet for My Pillow Helmet for My Pillow

  Robert Leckie 

  Now the inspiration behind the HBO series "The Pacific". Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of the Second World War. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In "Helmet for My Pillow" we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging...

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  With the Old Breed With the Old Breed

  Eugen B. Sledge 

  Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC. This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of...

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  Reappraisals: Reflections on... Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten...

  Tony Judt 

  As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an 'age of forgetting'. Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results of this burgeoning ignorance are proving calamitous,...

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  The Whisperers The Whisperers

  Orlando Figes 

  Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. "The Whisperers" recreates the sort of maze in which Russians...

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