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“Hutton lets Clarke be the magician of World War II, which keeps the story entertaining, engaging, and exciting.”

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“Read this novel of perseverance, hope and betrayal, and one unbelievable woman who dared to delve into the man’s world of science and succeeded.”

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“an important look at the personal side of how World War II strategy was made . . .”

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“Traditionally, we are seen as victims of our biology and environment, but Whitehouse offers the intriguing (and even fun) view that we are the masters of our destiny.”

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“I stare into the eyes of the patient sitting in front of me . . .

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Since the beginning of maritime trade, bands of pirates, privateers, or brigands have plundered ships.

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“. . . an admiring, but not uncritical, portrait of one of the great national security ‘experts’ of the second-half of the 20th century.”

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“For the general reader or the beginning scholar of the ancient world on the path to become more, The Missing Thread is one of the works that makes a good starting point.”

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a fascinating read that reveals the importance of horses in world history.”

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“Bernstein balances a keen sense of moral outrage with an impassioned commitment to facts and the historical record. . . .

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This charmingly produced little book is a new volume in the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series put out by Princeton University Press that aims to show how our contemporary preoccupat

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We Refuse goes a long way to helping us understand an important part of our national past, slavery, racism and resistance.” 

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“a story of astonishing self-indulgence and greed by France’s tiny, privileged nobility at the expense of the subjects of the realm.”

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Here is a book for anyone hoping to learn more about the emergence of female liberation; for any historian anxious to take in another facet of life in one of Europe’s most dazzling cities; and for

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The Iraq War is only beginning to receive its due historical reckoning, with many new volumes uncovering the background of the 2003 invasion and discussing the biased, chaotic and often dysfunction

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The subtitle of Write like a Man is Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, the implication being that the (mostly) Jewish intellectuals who dominated the mid-century A

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“Today, we require individuals with strength of spirit over the banality of evil, bravery over the malicious, and empathy for victims of hatred and lies.

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Clausewitz’s quote—"War is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means”—is certainly true in the 21st century, and nowhere truer th

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“Although the subtitle of the book credits Churchill with the fight to save civilization, in the end Dugard makes clear that is was the courageous pilots of the RAF . . .”

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“The author’s writing is colorful and lively, as befits this story of a special frontier place and its incredible creators.”

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“presents D-Day history not as some sweeping battle narrative, but as the thousands of individuals stories that collectively decided the course of the battle that day.”

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“This fabulous book loaded with lavish photographs of the tapestries and arms and armor . . .

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