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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
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Max Hastings takes his readers from the jungles of Burma to Iwo Jima, from hand-to-hand fighting in Manila to amphibious landings on Okinawa, from battleship in the Leyte Gulf to B-29 raids on Tokyo, and from the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria to the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His human stories are taken from interviews, letters, diaries an... »
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
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Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction 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 ... »
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible fo... »
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper&... »
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and ... »
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner's thesis that the CIA was absolutely incompetent on every level and run by fools and nazi like rogues. This view is unrelenting and horrifyin... »
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