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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)

by George R.R. Martin

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Alexander the Great

by Paul Cartledge

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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)

by Richard J. Evans

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