Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

The Transformation of Modern Europe

by James J. Sheehan

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Publication date: January 01, 2008

Historian Sheehan shows how Europe has moved from pre-World War I militarism to the “civilian states” we know today.

Résistance

A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France

by Agnes Humbert

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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Publication date: September 02, 2008

Agnès Humbert gives a riveting firsthand account of one of the first French Resistance networks during WWII.

Angels and Ages

by Adam Gopnik

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Random House

Publication date: January 27, 2009

The award-winning New Yorker writer gives us a fascinating meditation on the lives and accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, two men—born on the same day—who would change the world in profound ways.

Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers

by Bryan Mark Rigg

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Publisher: Univ. Press of Kansas

Publication date: March 01, 2009

Profiles 21 of the nearly 150,000 Jewish or part-Jewish (Mischlinge) personnel who fought for Germany in World War II.

Bismarck

The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship

by Niklas Zetterling

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Publisher: Casemate Publisher & Book Dist.

Publication date: June 01, 2009

A gripping, minute-by-minute chronicle of the hunt for the Bismarck, and the doomed battleship’s final hours.

Germany 1945

From War to Peace

by Richard Bessel

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Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Publication date: June 30, 2009

A provocative portrait of Germany’s emergence from WWII—arguably the most important transition of modern times.

Meeting the Demands of Reason

The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov

by Jay Bergman

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Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication date: August 20, 2009

Lucid look at the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb approaches Sakharov from the perspective of his thinking.

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Inquisition

The Reign of Fear

by Toby Green

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press, LLC

Publication date: February 26, 2009

A powerful account of the Inquisition that lays bare its horrors while busting a number of long-standing myths.

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Hunting Eichmann

How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi

by Neal Bascomb

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co.

Publication date: March 11, 2009

This is a fascinating account of the 15-year chase through Argentina and Europe that brought a wicked Nazi to justice.

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Germany 1945

From War to Peace

by Richard Bessel

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Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers

Publication date: June 30, 2009

This portrait of Germany’s emergence from the catastrophe of WWII is a startling narrative of the most important transition of modern times: from the worst outburst of violence in human history to an era of renewed hope.