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Sun-tzu
The oldest surviving treatise on strategy, written in China some two and a half thousand years ago. Sun-tzu writes on terrain, deception and... (Automatically generated book description)
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Sunzi
The oldest surviving treatise on strategy, written in China some two and a half thousand years ago. Sunzi writes on terrain, deception and t... (Automatically generated book description)
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Daniel James Brown
The story of the University of Washington eight that won gold in Berlin in 1936: sons of loggers and farmers against the elite crews of Euro... (Automatically generated book description)
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Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan writes world history not from Europe outwards but from the trade routes of Central Asia, showing how often what we take for ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor reconstructs the battle of Stalingrad from German and Soviet files, field post and interrogation records. In 1998 the book sho... (Automatically generated book description)
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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor covers the whole of the Second World War in one volume, from China in 1937 to Nagasaki, keeping the connections between the th... (Automatically generated book description)
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens travelled the United States in 1842 and wrote an account that displeased his hosts, on prisons, newspapers and above all on ... (Automatically generated book description)
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David Farber
David Farber tells the American 1960s as a decade of grand designs, civil rights, Vietnam, counterculture, and asks what they failed on. (Automatically generated book description)
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Michael Pye
Michael Pye tells the history of Europe from the North Sea: Vikings, Hanseatic merchants, books, money and fashion, and shows how much came ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson on the civil rights movement, its aftermath and the question of what was actually delivered. He writes as sociologist and... (Automatically generated book description)
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James S. Hirsch
Two American prisoners of war in Vietnam, one white and one black, survive torture and isolation by holding to each other. James S. Hirsch t... (Automatically generated book description)
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Anna Comnena
In the twelfth century Anna Comnena recorded the reign of her father Alexios I, one of the few surviving works of history by a woman from th... (Automatically generated book description)
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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor tells the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 with the access to Soviet files that was long missing, and without taking sides. (Automatically generated book description)
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Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown tells the Second World War through Japanese Americans: interned by their own country and at the same time fighting for it... (Automatically generated book description)
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Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze examines the world economy during and after the First World War: how the United States became the creditor power and why the orde... (Automatically generated book description)
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Stanley G. Payne
Stanley Payne examines the years before the Spanish Civil War and asks how the Republic came apart from within before the generals rose. (Automatically generated book description)
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Artemis Cooper
Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper describe Paris between 1944 and 1949: reckoning with collaborators, hunger, existentialism and the opening ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz shows that marriage for love is a recent invention, and that it both freed the institution and made it fragile. (Automatically generated book description)
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust examines what the American Civil War did to the way the nation dealt with death: mass graves, notifications, cemeteries, r... (Automatically generated book description)
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Yaroslav Trofimov
In November 1979 armed fundamentalists seized the Great Mosque in Mecca. Yaroslav Trofimov reconstructs two weeks that few people know about... (Automatically generated book description)
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Robert O'Neill
Robert O Neill describes his years with the Navy SEALs, including the operation against Osama bin Laden, and what happened to him afterwards... (Automatically generated book description)
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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz visits four abandoned cities, Catalhoyuk, Pompeii, Angkor and Cahokia, and asks why people left them. Usually not because of ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Tyler Anbinder
Tyler Anbinder tells the history of Five Points, the slum district of nineteenth-century New York, from census records, police files and new... (Automatically generated book description)
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Max Boot
Max Boot portrays Edward Lansdale, the American officer who argued for a different approach in the Philippines and Vietnam from the one the ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan tells the First Crusade from the Byzantine side: Emperor Alexios called the West for help and got something he could no long... (Automatically generated book description)
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Stephan Talty
Stephan Talty on Juan Pujol Garcia, the Spanish double agent who sold the Germans an entire network of invented spies and disguised the land... (Automatically generated book description)
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Eric Conan
Eric Conan and Henry Rousso examine how France dealt with the Vichy years: the long silence and the late trials. (Automatically generated book description)
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David Farber
David Farber tells the hostage taking at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the four hundred and forty-four days that followed, and ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Christopher Duffy
Christopher Duffy describes the siege warfare of the early modern period: bastions, mine galleries, approach trenches, and the arithmetic by... (Automatically generated book description)
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Shaun Usher
Shaun Usher collects lists from history: shopping lists, resolutions, lists of enemies, to-do lists from Einstein to Johnny Cash. With image... (Automatically generated book description)
