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Parting the Waters
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Lawrence Wright

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Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II
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Ben Macintyre

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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
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Stephen E. Ambrose

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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
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Jonah Goldberg

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
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Daniel Yergin

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR
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Susan Wise Bauer

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On Wings of Eagles
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington

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Erik Larson

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Art Spiegelman

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
David McCullough

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Charles C. Mann

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Art Spiegelman

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Jared Diamond

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Columbine
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Dave Cullen

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

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In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez

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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Nathaniel Philbrick

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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang

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The Guns of August
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman

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The Works of Josephus
The Works of Josephus
Flavius Josephus

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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
John M. Barry

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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War
Nathaniel Philbrick

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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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Harold G. Moore

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