Cassino '44 by James Holland
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A new history of the battle for Rome during WWII
Read MoreThe Good Allies by Tim Cook
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A new history of Canada's partnership with the US in the Second World War
Read MoreThe Strategists by Phillips Payson O'Brien
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A new history of how the leaders of the Second World War conducted their strategies
Read MoreHow to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev
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A new history of the British radio broadcasts designed to subvert Nazi propaganda
Read MoreNazi Billionaires by David De Jong
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A journalist divulges the Nazi past of many world-renowned Germany financial empires.
Read MoreMiss Dior by Justine Picardie
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Catherine, the sister of designer Christian Dior, gets a biography.
Read MoreLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexievich interviews 100 people who were children during the Second World War and relates their stories.
Read MoreTwilight of the Gods by Ian Toll
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Historian Ian Toll concludes his epic trilogy of historical volumes about the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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The Fourth Reich by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
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The Fourth Reich is the carefully-documented anatomy of a standing threat.
Read MoreBig Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II by James Holland
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An account of one of the turning-point engagements of World War II.
Read MoreHitler's American Friends by Bradley W. Hart
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More than just a a thinly veiled historical warning about the present.
Read MoreThe Death of Hitler by Jean-Christophe Brisard & Lana Parshina
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Access to previously unseen Soviet archives and cutting-edge forensics reveals a dramatic new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker.
Read MoreIndianapolis by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic
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This book is the most emphatic statement of Charles McVay's case ever made.
Read MoreAsperger's Children by Edith Sheffer
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A fascinating examination of the unnerving history behind a common diagnosis.
Read MoreThe Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
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A clear, fast-paced history heavily laden with implicit warnings.
Read MoreThe Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot
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The Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
Read MoreEisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World by Louis Galambos
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A brisk, almost aphoristic biography, covering every stage of Eisenhower's life.
Read MoreWorlds Undone
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A pseudonym, though it obscures, is not always successful as a bid for obscurity. Witness Elena Ferrante: while her work stands on its own, the added mystery of authorial absence has no doubt contributed to the years-long international firestorm of publicity and speculation.
Nevertheless, a pen name may still give personal shelter to the author who chooses it.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Nicholas Monsarrat
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A debatably wise man once said that the best-seller was a gilded tomb for a mediocre talent. As with all easy aphorisms, it’s only 90 percent true.
The riddle is solved one of two ways: either the writer of the best-seller stumbled blindly upon a winning formula that one time only, or the writer always knew what they were doing and some combination of chance and synergy caused that one book to take flight.