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Sun-tzu
The oldest surviving treatise on strategy, written in China some two and a half thousand years ago. Sun-tzu writes on terrain, deception and... (AI-generated book description)
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Sunzi
The oldest surviving treatise on strategy, written in China some two and a half thousand years ago. Sunzi writes on terrain, deception and t... (AI-generated book description)
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Yuval Noah Harari
In his third book, Yuval Noah Harari turns his attention to the present. What does the spread of disinformation mean for our collective judg... (AI-generated book description)
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Daniel James Brown
The story of the University of Washington eight that won gold in Berlin in 1936: sons of loggers and farmers against the elite crews of Euro... (AI-generated book description)
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Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan writes world history not from Europe outwards but from the trade routes of Central Asia, showing how often what we take for ... (AI-generated book description)
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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor reconstructs the battle of Stalingrad from German and Soviet files, field post and interrogation records. In 1998 the book sho... (AI-generated book description)
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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor covers the whole of the Second World War in one volume, from China in 1937 to Nagasaki, keeping the connections between the th... (AI-generated book description)
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens travelled the United States in 1842 and wrote an account that displeased his hosts, on prisons, newspapers and above all on ... (AI-generated book description)
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder explains the Holocaust not from German antisemitism alone but from the destruction of states: where no state remained, no pro... (AI-generated book description)
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David Farber
David Farber tells the American 1960s as a decade of grand designs, civil rights, Vietnam, counterculture, and asks what they failed on. (AI-generated book description)
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Michael Pye
Michael Pye tells the history of Europe from the North Sea: Vikings, Hanseatic merchants, books, money and fashion, and shows how much came ... (AI-generated book description)
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Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson on the civil rights movement, its aftermath and the question of what was actually delivered. He writes as sociologist and... (AI-generated book description)
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James S. Hirsch
Two American prisoners of war in Vietnam, one white and one black, survive torture and isolation by holding to each other. James S. Hirsch t... (AI-generated book description)
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Anna Comnena
In the twelfth century Anna Comnena recorded the reign of her father Alexios I, one of the few surviving works of history by a woman from th... (AI-generated book description)
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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor tells the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 with the access to Soviet files that was long missing, and without taking sides. (AI-generated book description)
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Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown tells the Second World War through Japanese Americans: interned by their own country and at the same time fighting for it... (AI-generated book description)
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Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze examines the world economy during and after the First World War: how the United States became the creditor power and why the orde... (AI-generated book description)
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Stanley G. Payne
Stanley Payne examines the years before the Spanish Civil War and asks how the Republic came apart from within before the generals rose. (AI-generated book description)
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Artemis Cooper
Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper describe Paris between 1944 and 1949: reckoning with collaborators, hunger, existentialism and the opening ... (AI-generated book description)
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Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz shows that marriage for love is a recent invention, and that it both freed the institution and made it fragile. (AI-generated book description)
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust examines what the American Civil War did to the way the nation dealt with death: mass graves, notifications, cemeteries, r... (AI-generated book description)
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Yaroslav Trofimov
In November 1979 armed fundamentalists seized the Great Mosque in Mecca. Yaroslav Trofimov reconstructs two weeks that few people know about... (AI-generated book description)
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Robert O'Neill
Robert O Neill describes his years with the Navy SEALs, including the operation against Osama bin Laden, and what happened to him afterwards... (AI-generated book description)
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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz visits four abandoned cities, Catalhoyuk, Pompeii, Angkor and Cahokia, and asks why people left them. Usually not because of ... (AI-generated book description)
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Tyler Anbinder
Tyler Anbinder tells the history of Five Points, the slum district of nineteenth-century New York, from census records, police files and new... (AI-generated book description)
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Max Boot
Max Boot portrays Edward Lansdale, the American officer who argued for a different approach in the Philippines and Vietnam from the one the ... (AI-generated book description)
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Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan tells the First Crusade from the Byzantine side: Emperor Alexios called the West for help and got something he could no long... (AI-generated book description)
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Stephan Talty
Stephan Talty on Juan Pujol Garcia, the Spanish double agent who sold the Germans an entire network of invented spies and disguised the land... (AI-generated book description)
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Eric Conan
Eric Conan and Henry Rousso examine how France dealt with the Vichy years: the long silence and the late trials. (AI-generated book description)
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David Farber
David Farber tells the hostage taking at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the four hundred and forty-four days that followed, and ... (AI-generated book description)
