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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

By Steve Coll

Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies

By James Sanders

Politics in Western Europe

By Gerald A. Dorfman, Peter Duignan

Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

By Hastings, Max

Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

By Krakauer, Jon

Questioning Slavery

By Walvin, James

China Since Mao

By Bettelheim, Charles, Burton, Neil, Pearce, B.

Secession: The Morality Of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter To Lithuania And Quebec

By Buchanan, Allen

America

By Willie Thompson, etc., et al

Storm from the East

By Milton Viorst

The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution

By Jonathan D. Spence

Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses

By Mark Felton

The Life of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment

By Various

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD

By Martin A. Lee

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By Malcolm Harris

Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

By Paul Strathern

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis

The Yosemite

By John Muir, Michael McCurdy, David Brower

Descent into Chaos: The world's most unstable region and the threat to global security

By Rashid, Ahmed

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

By William Strauss, Neil Howe

Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke

By MICHAEL BENNETT

LAPD '53

By James Ellroy, Los Angeles Police Museum

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

Confronting History: A Memoir

By George L. Mosse

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles

The City Of London Volume 3: Illusions of Gold 1914 - 1945

By David Kynaston

DK Eyewitness New York City: 2019

By DK Eyewitness

Masses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality

By George L. Mosse