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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S... -
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life...Categorized as:
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![The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by [美]伊恩·托尔(Ian W. Toll)]()
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by [美]伊恩·托尔(Ian W. Toll)
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island... -
![Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll]()
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics-on both sides-illuminating the greatest naval war in history. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss... -
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![Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro]()
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate... -
![The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze]()
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe idea that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut, backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy, has been central to all accounts of World War II... -
![The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns]()
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country... -
![The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk]()
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to... -
![The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid]()
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action... -
![Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall]()
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States—attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces... -
![What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer]()
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George... -
![“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill]()
“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis eBook reproduces British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s historic speech “Finest Hour,” delivered on June 18, 1940. The speech was dedicated to the heroism of Royal Air Force pilots defending England from the Luftwaffe during the critical Battle of Britain (July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940)... -
![Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas]()
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an electrifying and audacious narrative examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979... -
![The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him... -
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![A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes]()
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century... -
![Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian]()
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
![The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
![Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell]()
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, and created American politics as we know it today... -
![Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan]()
Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe drive to victory between June 1943 and July 1944, as the Allies consolidate their achievements, with enormous difficulty and great divergence of opinion... -
![Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill]()
Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
![Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell]()
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America’s most complex president. In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures... -
![Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein]()
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics... -
![The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt]()
The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence—to answer this question... -
![The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam]()
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain... -
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![You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn]()
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHoward Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice... -
![Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault]()
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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![A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer]()
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today... -
![Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg]()
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOriginally published in six volumes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was called “the greatest historical biography of our generation.” Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln...Categorized as:
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![Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer]()
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII. By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness... -
![Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden]()
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam?s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000...
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