Résistance

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

by Agnes Humbert

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Publication date: September 02, 2008

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

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.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Angels and Ages

by Adam Gopnik

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

Publication date: January 27, 2009

From the award-winning New Yorker writer—a fascinating meditation on Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.

Doomed Queens

Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends From Cleopatra to Princess Di.

by Kris Waldherr

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Publisher: Broadway Books/Div of Random House

Publication date: October 28, 2008

Get the dish on the demise of history’s most powerful women in this lavishly illustrated, royally cheeky read!