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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Ordinary Men
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The Inheritance of Rome
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Death Traps
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The Wages of Destruction
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Alexander Hamilton
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Embracing Defeat
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Washington: A Life
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Japan at War: An Oral History
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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
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The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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Changes in the Land
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Six Frigates
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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A History of God
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
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American Colonies
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Why the West Rules--for Now
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A Medieval Life
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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The Complete Roman Army (The Complete Series)
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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
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Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World
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Command and Control
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TheFall of Carthage The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Goldsworthy,...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Taming Democracy
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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Armour from the Battle of Wisby
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The Crusades
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Facing East from Indian Country
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History of the Byzantine State
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Swords Around A Throne
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Supplying War
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3: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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A Murder of Quality
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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Aztec Warfare
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God's Chinese Son
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Peasants into Frenchmen
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Lying About Hitler
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The Most Dangerous Enemy
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The Invisible Hook
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Agincourt: The King; the Campaign; the Battle
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3: Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume III
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The Wars of the Roses
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All the Shah's Men
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The Lost City of Z
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Hitler's Furies
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Reconstruction
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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ZEALOT: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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Empires of the Sea
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Cleopatra: A Life
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The Rising Sun
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The Battle that Shook Europe
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The Third Reich at War
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The Great Divergence
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The Middle Ground
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Who Wrote the Bible?
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Black against Empire
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A Frozen Hell
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Slavery by Another Name
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The History of White People
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Lost Christianities
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Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
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The Great Influenza
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
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Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century
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A Peace to End All Peace
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Bomber Command
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Crucible of War
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The Rommel Papers
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The World of Late Antiquity
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The Sagas of Icelanders
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Waterloo The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
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What Went Wrong?
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