In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos
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Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
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The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
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The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War- A Tragedy in Three Acts
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
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Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944 – 1945
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
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Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order
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Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
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Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
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The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
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Capital of Spies: Intelligence Agencies in Berlin During the Cold War
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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
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Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
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Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
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Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965 – 1966
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
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Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
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Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
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