Historical Nonfiction

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Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz
Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,697 ratings
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The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray
The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Burke and Hare: The Year of the Ghouls
Burke and Hare: The Year of the Ghouls 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience 3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Survivor Love Thy Enemy
Survivor Love Thy Enemy 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America 4.06 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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Passionate Minds
Passionate Minds 4.10 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks 3.42 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code 4.01 avg rating — 434 ratings
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De geschiedenis van de erotiek : van holbewoner tot markies De Sade
De geschiedenis van de erotiek : van holbewoner tot markies De Sade 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Very Bloody History of Britain
The Very Bloody History of Britain 3.76 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Men Who Killed Gandhi
Men Who Killed Gandhi 4.13 avg rating — 720 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,896 ratings
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Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever 4.01 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,220 ratings
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder 3.50 avg rating — 542 ratings
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I 4.03 avg rating — 4,253 ratings
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by: Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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De macht van een maîtresse: Hoe passie en politiek de laatste prins fataal werden
De macht van een maîtresse: Hoe passie en politiek de laatste prins fataal werden 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men 3.71 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft 4.24 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Het kamp van Broos en Kaliko : de geschiedenis van een Afro-Surinaamse familie
Het kamp van Broos en Kaliko : de geschiedenis van een Afro-Surinaamse familie 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India 4.20 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography 4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings
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The Emperors: How Europe's Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I
The Emperors: How Europe's Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I 4.09 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors 3.91 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,266 ratings
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The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-9
The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-9 4.18 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by: Greg King
3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History 3.58 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 4.25 avg rating — 18,113 ratings
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Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail 4.36 avg rating — 245 ratings
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A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Richard the Third
Richard the Third 3.98 avg rating — 2,967 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,458 ratings
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The Edwardian Turn of Mind
The Edwardian Turn of Mind 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles
Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles 4.27 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects 4.19 avg rating — 9,175 ratings
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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings
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So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 (Volume 1) (Overland West Series)
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 (Volume 1) (Overland West Series) 3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings
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If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, "King of the Caribbean Pirates"
If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, "King of the Caribbean Pirates" 3.95 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East 4.08 avg rating — 16,527 ratings
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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond 4.05 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History 3.82 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
by: Greg King
3.98 avg rating — 858 ratings
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The Making of the President 1964
The Making of the President 1964 4.06 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor 4.37 avg rating — 671 ratings
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1956: the year Australia welcomed the world
1956: the year Australia welcomed the world 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon 3.88 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Carpathia
Carpathia 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
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American Colonies
American Colonies 4.08 avg rating — 4,546 ratings
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The Americans, Vol. 3: The Democratic Experience
The Americans, Vol. 3: The Democratic Experience 4.09 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Ship of Dreams
Ship of Dreams 4.02 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli 3.93 avg rating — 465 ratings
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The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience
The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience 4.23 avg rating — 451 ratings
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The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience
The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience 4.01 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor 3.95 avg rating — 8,217 ratings
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The Oxford History of Britain
The Oxford History of Britain 3.68 avg rating — 637 ratings
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The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series)
The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series) 4.21 avg rating — 369 ratings
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present 4.13 avg rating — 4,605 ratings
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (The Penguin History of Britain, 5)
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (The Penguin History of Britain, 5) 3.56 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,785 ratings
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The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada
The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada 4.19 avg rating — 207 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,304 ratings
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,138 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,582 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram 4.06 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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Ten Days that Shook the World
Ten Days that Shook the World
by: John Reed
3.94 avg rating — 7,551 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 4.32 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution 3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 4.14 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 3.94 avg rating — 8,940 ratings
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Modern Ireland, 1600 - 1972
Modern Ireland, 1600 - 1972 3.73 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village 4.33 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Age of Reform
The Age of Reform 3.91 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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Roman Britain: A New History
Roman Britain: A New History 3.93 avg rating — 343 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty 3.95 avg rating — 5,242 ratings
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The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914 4.11 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,179 ratings
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 4.02 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
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March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race
March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race 4.33 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves 4.31 avg rating — 2,344 ratings
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Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States
Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States 3.72 avg rating — 129 ratings
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
by: Tom Segev
4.03 avg rating — 705 ratings
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The Diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War Nurse
The Diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War Nurse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 4.25 avg rating — 10,667 ratings
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War 3.88 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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