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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman W. W. Norton W. W. Norton
Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007 : On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The ZookeeperÂ’s Wife . Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textured...
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
Lawrence Wright Vintage Vintage
National Book Award Finalist A Time , Newsweek , Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented...
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The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin Free Press Free Press
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from ...
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Anyone who has ever gamely tried and failed to absorb, enjoy, and--especially--understand the complex works of Schoenberg, Mahler, Strauss, or even Philip Glass will allow themselves a wry smile reading New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's...
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Patrick J. Buchanan Crown Crown
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond...
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press
“Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus- spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.” —William Grimes, The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of...
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The Places In Between
Rory Stewart Harvest Books Harvest Books
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and...
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Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
Linda Robinson PublicAffairs PublicAffairs
After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around...
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Thunderstruck
Erik Larson Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” In Thunderstruck , Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive...
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The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman Presidio Press Presidio Press
"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer...
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