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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Putnam Demos
Vintage
Vintage
Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was...
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society
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Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Steve Levine
Random House
Random House
The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in...
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Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics)
Titus Livy
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal...
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking , a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes,...
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer
Wiley
Wiley
With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah,...
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Free Press
Free Press
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the great books in the Western tradition, as well as its first true historical narrative. Editor Robert Strassler has annotated this classic text to make it more accessible to modern readers...
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
Walker Publishing Company
Walker Publishing Company
From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly...
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