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1	1776 more books like this by David McCullough (Read by) add to wishlist David McCullough is known for his scholarly yet readable accounts of historical events and people's lives. Fans of his biography of John Adams will find the same narrative skill in 1776, his history of the first year of the America's war for independence from Britain. General Washington is at the center of this history, but important too are the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power more books like this by Daniel Yergin add to wishlist Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust more books like this by Doris L Bergen add to wishlist In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $25.15! \| SVS
4	Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam more books like this by Gordon M Goldstein add to wishlist 'I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share it'. These are not words that Americans ever expected to hear from McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. But in the last years of his life, Bundy - the ... see all copies from $11.67! new only from $11.67! \| SVS
5	The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West more books like this by Niall Ferguson add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.63! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder more books like this by Vincent Bugliosi add to wishlist Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The American Revolution: A History more books like this by Gordon S Wood add to wishlist Wood makes new the story of how and why the American colonies grew apart from and broke with their mother country, establishing a fundamentally new experiment in government. Writing with elegance and authority, he awakens readers to the drama and contingency of those long-ago events and teases out the process of mutation that led to the formation ... see all copies from $2.70! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire more books like this by Matt Taibbi add to wishlist Perfect for an election year, and bound to provoke controversy, this scathingly funny, audaciously reported, and genuinely illuminating narrative of what America has become at the end of the Bush Era is written by a major new voice in political journalism. see all copies from $2.56! new only from $3.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization more books like this by Nicholson Baker add to wishlist Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in the US today, has created a compelling work of non-fiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II. Human Smoke delivers a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? more books like this by David Fromkin add to wishlist In a gripping narrative that has eerie parallels to current events, "Europe'sLast Summer" is a striking re-creation of the start of World War I--a crucialmoment in 20th-century history. see all copies from $4.93! new only from $8.57! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Old Regime and the French Revolution more books like this by Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Stuart Gilbert (Translator) add to wishlist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of "Democracy in America," the most-quoted book written about the United States. "The Old Regime and the Revolution" is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust more books like this by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen add to wishlist In this extraordinarily controversial interpretation of the Holocaust, Goldhagen proposes that virulent anti-Semitism was so ingrained in German culture that the stage was set for the mass slaughter of the Jews long before Adolf Hitler rose to power. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War more books like this by Chandra Manning add to wishlist A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the Civil War, how the conflict changed troops' ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation. see all copies from $7.10! new only from $9.13! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Gathering Storm more books like this by Winston Churchill add to wishlist Volume one of a six-volume work on World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Plan of Attack more books like this by Bob Woodward, M.E add to wishlist Investigative reporter Bob Woodward had unusual access to the Bush White House in researching and writing this insider account of the George W. Bush administration's march to war against Saddam Hussein. While almost all of his many sources spoke off the record (an exception being the President), Woodward's narrative of events uncovers the key ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 more books like this by Ian Kershaw, Bar add to wishlist An acclaimed historian re-creaties a dramatic sequence of ten decisions made by the leaders of the world's six major powers--Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini, and Tojo--that reshaped human destiny. see all copies from $2.43! new only from $3.11! \| first editions
17 view cover	War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars more books like this by Richard N Haass add to wishlist According to foreign policy expert Haass, the first Iraq war following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was both necessary and well-executed. The second Iraq war, the author argues, was a war of choice, as unwarranted as it was poorly conceived and implemented. see all copies from $11.55! new only from $13.42! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War more books like this by Professor Eric Foner add to wishlist Foner has written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into context of contemporary scholarship. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.92! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations more books like this by Leonard V Crowley add to wishlist An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations, Eighth Edition provides students with a clear and well-illustrated explanation of the structural and functional changes associated with disease, the clinical manifestations of disease, and how to determine treatment. Ideal for Pathology, Pathophysiology, or Human Disease ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| SVS
20 view cover	Why Nations Go to War more books like this by John George Stoessinger add to wishlist Transmitting an understanding of warfare from World War I to the present, "Why Nations Go To War", a unique book and a product of reflection by author, John G. Stoessinger, is built around ten case studies, culminating in the new wars that ushered in the twenty-first century: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars between Arabs and Israelis in Gaza and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Origins of the First World War more books like this by James Joll add to wishlist James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.43! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Coming of the French Revolution more books like this by Georges Lefebvre, Robert R Palmer (Translator) add to wishlist This classic work details what happened in France during the year 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. First published in 1939 for the sesquicentennial of the Revolution, the book was suppressed by the Vichy government after the outbreak of the Second World War and the subsequent collapse of the Third Republic. Since, most copies of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.64! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death more books like this by Jessica Snyder Sachs add to wishlist In CORPSE, Jessica Snyder Sachs explores exactly how forensic pathologists are coming closer and closer to correctly establishing time of death--that invaluable bit of information in fiction as well as grisly fact. Their keenest tool, explains Sachs, is not DNA testing or a technological whats-it, but nature itself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 more books like this by Stephen B Oates add to wishlist A history of the conflicts and debates that led up to the Civil War in America, written from the perspectives of 13 prominent figures of the time. Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay debate the Missouri Compromise of 1820; Frederick Douglas and Harriet Beecher Stowe provide differing perspectives on slavery; and Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Origin of the Second World War more books like this by Alan J P Taylor add to wishlist see all copies from $2.94! new only from $7.73! \| SVS

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