HISTORY / World
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HISTORY / World
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HISTORY / World
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- Flirting with danger, the mysterious life of Marguerite Harrison, socialite spy, by Janet Wallach
- Land, how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
- The year 1000, when explorers connected the world — and globalization began, Valerie Hansen
- We must not forget, Holocaust stories of survival and resistance, Deborah Hopkinson
- November 1942, an intimate history of the turning point of World War II, Peter Englund ; translated from Swedish by Peter Graves
- 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
- After the fall, being American in the world we've made, Ben Rhodes
- God, a human history, Reza Aslan
- Wonderland, how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
- Brilliant maps for curious minds, 100 new ways to see the world, Ian Wright ; illustrated by Infographic.ly
- The iron sea, how the Allies hunted and destroyed Hitler's warships, Simon Read
- The correspondents, six women writers on the front lines of World War II, Judith Mackrell
- Resistance, the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945, Halik Kochanski
- 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
- The dirty tricks department, Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the masterminds of World War II secret warfare, John Lisle
- Eight days in May, the final collapse of the Third Reich, Volker Ullrich ; translated by Jefferson Chase
- Archaeology, the essential guide to our human past, general editor Paul Bahn ; foreword by Brian Fagan
- Fallen glory, the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings, James Crawford
- Farewell to the horse, a cultural history, Ulrich Raulff ; translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
- The daughters of Yalta, the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war, Catherine Grace Katz
- Who were the Navajo code talkers?, by James Buckley, Jr. ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Against all odds, a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II, Alex Kershaw
- Boy from Buchenwald, by Robert Waisman, and Susan McClelland
- Milk of paradise, a history of opium, Lucy Inglis
- X troop, the secret Jewish commandos of World War II, Leah Garrett
- Milk!, a 10,000-year food fracas, Mark Kurlansky
- On the horizon, Lois Lowry ; illustrated by Kenard Pak
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