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The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson

Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest

By Matthew C. Ehrlich

Ireland In The 20th Century

By Tim Pat Coogan

The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration

By Joseph R. Blaney, William L. Benoit

Truman

By David McCullough

Reporting World War II Vol. 2 (LOA #78): American Journalism 1944-1946

By Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Roger J. Spiller

The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi-Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East

By Andrew Scott Cooper

Small Town Talk

By Barney Hoskyns

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

By William Poundstone

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

By Volker R. Berghahn

US Army handbook, 1939-1945

By George Forty

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

By Eric Schlosser

The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

15 Minutes: General Curtis Lemay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation

By L Douglas Keeney

LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay

By Warren Kozak

Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America

By Winston James

Quotations of Martin Luther King (Quotations of Great Americans)

By King, Martin

Bound for Glory American in Color: America in Color 1939-43

By Hendricks Paul

One Hell of a Gamble: Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy J. Naftali

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Why Do People Hate America?

By Professor Ziauddin Sardar (Middlesex University), Merryl Wyn Davies

"Time" 100: The Most Influential People of the 20th Century: v. 3: Heroes and Inspirations, Person of the Century

By Time-Life Books

Harry Hopkins and the Grand Alliance of the Second World War

By Hopkins, June

Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America Into the War and Into the World

By Michael Fullilove

Eisenhower: Soldier and President

By Stephen E. Ambrose

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

By Arthur M. Schlesinger

Debating the Kennedy Presidency

By James N. Giglio, Stephen G. Rabe