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Dave Cullen - Columbine

It has taken ten years for someone to summon the fortitude to investigate and reveal the full story behind the Columbine murders. Appropriately, that ...

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Latest review by toiletoctopus Feb 1, 2013

"Most of us remember, where we were, on 4/20/1999. The tragedy of Columbine High School, where Dylan..." Read full review

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Edith Hahn Beer - The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

The author, a Jewish law student when the war broke out, recounts how she survived the Holocaust as the wife of a Nazi party member in Munich. ...

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Latest review by msiduri May 7, 2012

"This is an autobiography, co-written with Susan Dworkin, of Edith Hahn Beer (1914-2009), a Viennese..." Read full review

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Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Free Worldwide Delivery : Eichmann in Jerusalem : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780143039884 : 0143039881 : 07 Dec 2006 : A report on the trial of ...

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Latest review by paulsavage Aug 21, 2010

"During war or dealing with its aftermath, op-ed and other columnists reference Hannah Arendt’s..." Read full review

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Chris Rose - 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Free Worldwide Delivery : 1 Dead in Attic : Paperback : SIMON & SCHUSTER : 9781416552987 : 1416552987 : 21 Aug 2007 : This collection of stories ...

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Latest review by telynor Feb 2, 2008

"There are times when I sit and wonder, Am I crazy? Am I crazy?, especially when I look at the state..." Read full review

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Candice Millard - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous ...

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Frederic Morton - A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888/1889

Free Worldwide Delivery : A Nervous Splendour : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140056679 : 014005667X : 24 Sep 1981 : On January 30, 1889, at ...

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Latest review by catu11us Nov 6, 2003

"Perhaps we should leave the writing of history to novelists. Zoë Oldenbourg is a splendid example of..." Read full review

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Christopher R. Browning - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Free Worldwide Delivery : Ordinary Men : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780060995065 : 0060995068 : 05 Jul 1993 : An account of how a ...

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Latest review by bibliofiend Feb 11, 2002

"When the Second World War ended in Europe in May of 1945, some six million Jews had been killed in w..." Read full review

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William Manchester - A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age

With more than 200,000 copies sold in hardcover and paperback, William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of ...

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Latest review by tedman36 Jul 14, 2008

"William Manchester takes you through time recounting all the events from the Middles ages through th..." Read full review

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Bruce Chatwin - The Songlines

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Songlines : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140094299 : 0140094296 : 31 May 2001 : Part adventure story, part ...

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Latest review by clownpoche Nov 20, 2012

"Bruce Chatwin states that his motivations in traveling and writing is to understand the primal sourc..." Read full review

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Andrew X. Pham - Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

When he was ten, the author of this memoir fled with his family from Vietnam to California, where he led a mostly assimilated life. After finding the ...

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Latest review by jankp Oct 12, 2009

"Catfish and Mandala, winner of the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim prize and a New York Times Notable Book..." Read full review

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Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel - Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this ...

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Latest review by knotheadusc May 8, 2010

"Last night, I finished reading Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the..." Read full review

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Modris Eksteins - Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Looks at the origins and impact of World War I, discusses the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet, and analyzes public opinion of the period.

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Latest review by mshawpyle Jan 11, 2000

"If I were forced, at gunpoint, to designate four books for those wanting to know what the world of 1..." Read full review

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David Grossman - Yellow Wind

A prominent Israeli writer's report on the Israeli-Arab situation describes what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987, from the miserable ...

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Latest review by plorentz Aug 10, 2003

"We're keeping our word to the Iraqi people by helping them to make their country an example of d..." Read full review

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Ross King - Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

In this history, novelist Ross King chronicles the career of Filippo Brunelleschi, the 15th-century goldsmith and clockmaker, who designed the ...

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Latest review by Stephen_Murray Nov 23, 2005

"In 2000 Ross King, a heretofore obscure British novelist previously unpublished in the US, published..." Read full review

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Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, ...

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Latest review by deenaf May 10, 2008

"I belong to a Hadassah book club (couldnt say no as I am the sitting President!) and we read Judaic..." Read full review

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