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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Bloodlands

By Timothy Snyder ,

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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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Ghost Soldiers

By Hampton Sides ,

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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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A Woman in Berlin

By Anonymous , Philip Boehm (translator) ,

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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Ordinary Men

By Christopher R. Browning ,

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Ordinary Men
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Ordinary Men

By Christopher R. Browning ,

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Apt Pupil
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Apt Pupil

By Stephen King ,

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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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Kill Anything That Moves

By Nick Turse ,

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The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
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The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax ,

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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First They Killed My Father

By Loung Ung ,

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Greenmantle
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Greenmantle

By John Buchan ,

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On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
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On the Front Line

By Marie Colvin ,

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God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation
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God Sleeps in Rwanda

By Joseph Sebarenzi , Laura Mullane ,

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What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China
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What Remains

By Tobie Meyer-Fong ,

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The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields
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The Elimination

By Rithy Panh , Christophe Bataille , John Cullen (translator)

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The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans
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The Stone Fields

By Courtney Angela Brkic ,

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Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied War Crimes Policy and the Question of Punishment
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Prelude to Nuremberg

By Arieh J. Kochavi ,

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Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal
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Justice in the Balkans

By John Hagan ,

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Surrender and Survival: The Experience of American Pow's in the Pacific 1941-1945
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Surrender and Survival

By E. Bartlett Kerr ,

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Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory
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Haunted by Atrocity

By Benjamin G. Cloyd ,

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War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
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War of Annihilation

By Geoffrey P. Megargee ,

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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War
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Lolas' House

By M. Evelina Galang ,

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The Sixth Lamentation
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The Sixth Lamentation

By William Brodrick ,

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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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Shake Hands with the Devil

By Roméo Dallaire ,

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The Holocaust: A New History
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The Holocaust

By Laurence Rees ,

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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
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Black Hearts

By Jim Frederick ,

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Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka
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Trap with a Green Fence

By Richard Glazar , Roslyn Theobald (translator) ,

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The Kirov Murder and Soviet History
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The Kirov Murder and Soviet History

By Matthew E. Lenoe ,

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The Kindly Ones
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The Kindly Ones

By Jonathan Littell ,

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The Reader
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The Reader

By Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway (translator) ,

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Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives
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Ordinary People as Mass Murderers

By Olaf Jensen (editor) , Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (editor) ,

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States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
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States of Denial

By Stanley Cohen ,

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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962--1976
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The Cultural Revolution

By Frank Dikotter ,

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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
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Machete Season

By Jean Hatzfeld , Linda Coverdale (translator) ,

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