HISTORY / World
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HISTORY / World
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HISTORY / World
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- The history of philosophy, A.C. Grayling
- The year 1000, when explorers connected the world — and globalization began, Valerie Hansen
- Holy war, how Vasco da Gama's epic voyages turned the tide in a centuries-old clash of civilizations, Nigel Cliff
- Land, how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
- Flirting with danger, the mysterious life of Marguerite Harrison, socialite spy, by Janet Wallach
- The Caesar of Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the artistic obsession that shaped an empire, Susan Jaques
- Bad days in history, a gleefully grim chronicle of misfortune, mayhem, and misery for every day of the year, Michael Farquhar ; illustrations by Giulia Ghigini
- The island of extraordinary captives, a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp, Simon Parkin
- God, a human history, Reza Aslan
- The age of catastrophe, a history of the West, 1914-1945, Heinrich August Winkler ; translated by Stewart Spencer
- Too hot to handle, a global history of sex education, Jonathan Zimmerman
- The correspondents, six women writers on the front lines of World War II, Judith Mackrell
- The history of the world quiz book, 1,000 questions and answers to test your knowledge, Meredith MacArdle
- After the fall, being American in the world we've made, Ben Rhodes
- November 1942, an intimate history of the turning point of World War II, Peter Englund ; translated from Swedish by Peter Graves
- Civil wars, a history in ideas, David Armitage
- The iron sea, how the Allies hunted and destroyed Hitler's warships, Simon Read
- The Middle Ages, Michael Burgan
- The geography of genius, a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley, Eric Weiner
- Sugar, the world corrupted: from slavery to obesity, James Walvin
- Saving Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the cost of Allied victory in Europe, John Kelly
- The liberation of Paris, how Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz saved the City of Light, Jean Edward Smith
- Innocent witnesses, childhood memories of World War II, Marilyn Yalom ; with a foreword by Meg Waite Clayton ; edited by Ben Yalom
- Resistance, the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945, Halik Kochanski
- Sleeper agent, the atomic spy in America who got away, by Ann Hagedorn
- The dirty tricks department, Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the masterminds of World War II secret warfare, John Lisle
- They fought alone, the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied France, Charles Glass
- Hitler's collaborators, choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe, Philip Morgan
- Fallen glory, the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings, James Crawford
- A concise history of the Arabs, John McHugo
- Adriatic, a concert of civilizations at the end of the modern age, Robert D. Kaplan
- Rock Force, the American paratroopers who took back Corregidor and exacted Macarthur's revenge on Japan, Kevin Maurer
- Hitler's American gamble, Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war, Brendan Simms, and Charlie Laderman
- Last witnesses, an oral history of the children of World War II, Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Looking for the good war, American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness, Elizabeth D. Samet
- X troop, the secret Jewish commandos of World War II, Leah Garrett
- Opium, how an ancient flower shaped and poisoned our world, John H. Halpern, MD and David Blistein
- A short history of the world in 50 lies, Natasha Tidd
- Against all odds, a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II, Alex Kershaw
- Who were the Navajo code talkers?, by James Buckley, Jr. ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- A little history of science, William Bynum
- The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy, how America's civil religion betrayed the national interest, Walter A. McDougall
- On the horizon, Lois Lowry ; illustrated by Kenard Pak
- The tango war, the struggle for the hearts, minds and riches of Latin America during World War II, Mary Jo McConahay
- Kangaroo squadron, American courage in the darkest days of World War II, Bruce Gamble
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