To End a War: The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic, Paperback - Richard Holbrooke

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The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding pr...

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In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A ...

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An account of how Napoleon Bonaparte came to power through the French Revolution, and then worked tirelessly to end it.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAut...

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Praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a brisk, colorful, and cleverly recounted selection of ten crimes, " this gripping book ventures into rural America t...

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Welcome to the wonderfully weird World War Two... The Second World War was the bloodiest on record. It was the first total war in history when civi...

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The miraculous story of the Walkers, six siblings who survived Blitz, battle and internment and whose incredible experiences tell a new social hist...

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