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How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman Night by Elie Wiesel
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanParis, 1919 by Margaret MacMillanTo End All Wars by Adam HochschildThe Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Great War
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Endurance by Alfred LansingIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickWild Swans by Jung ChangThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardNothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
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