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1.
The Fourth Part of the World
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
By: Toby Lester
This edition: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that...
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Emancipation
How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance
By: Michael Goldfarb
This edition: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
For almost 500 years the Jews of Europe were kept apart, confined to ghettos or tiny villages in the countryside. Then, in one extraordinary moment in the French Revolution, the Jews of France were emancipated. Soon the ghetto...
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Enemies of the People
My Family's Journey to America
By: Kati Marton
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: October 20, 2009
"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The...
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Children of Armenia
A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice
By: Michael Bobelian
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2009
From 1915 to 1923, the ruling Ottoman Empire drove 2 million Armenians from their ancestral homeland; 1.5 million of them were viciously slaughtered. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow...
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Munich, 1938
Appeasement and World War II
By: David Faber
This edition: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2009
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich with the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and was greeted with a hero's welcome. As he paused on the aircraft...
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Hitler's Holy Relics
A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire
By: Sidney Kirkpatrick
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: May 11, 2010
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The Bitter Road to Freedom
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
By: William I Hitchcock
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and...
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Inferno
The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943
By: Keith Lowe
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: June 5, 2007
In the summer of 1943, British and American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg that was unlike anything the world had ever seen. For ten days they pounded the city with over 9,000 tons of bombs, with the...
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The Dragon's Trail
The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece
By: Joanna Pitman
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: April 17, 2007
Raphael's St. George and the Dragon is the work of a genius -- an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time. Yet the painting's creation is only the beginning of its...
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Alexander II
The Last Great Tsar
By: Edvard Radzinsky
Translated by: Antonina Bouis
This edition: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publication date: November 14, 2006
Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich portrait of one of the greatest of all Romanovs. Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln --...
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