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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

By Mitchell Zuckoff

New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s

By Andrew Karmen

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

By Alexis de Tocqueville

A Reader And Guide: Eyes On the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years

By Clayborne Carson

Allies

By William Shawcross

The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr, 1892-1982

By Jonathan Haslam

1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe

By Mary Elise Sarotte

Deterring Democracy

By Chomsky, Noam

Ideal Illusions: How the US Government Co-opted Human Rights

By James Peck

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

By Carter, Jimmy

The Cold War (Questions and Analysis in History)

By Lightbody, Bradley

The Black Holocaust for Beginners

By S. E. Anderson, Vanessa Holley

Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage

By Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott

Richard Cobden: Independent Radical

By Nicholas C. Edsall

Tarnished Vision

By David Robins

Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518-1865

By Daniel P. Mannix, Malcolm Cowley

Wyatt Earp: Heroes of the Wild West

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

By Christian Parenti

The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond

By John Washington

Strangers in Paradise: Hollywood Emigres, 1933-50

By John Russell Taylor

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

By Dennis Covington

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44

By Charles Glass

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary

By Dmitriai Antonovich Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era

By Roy A. Medvedev, George Shriver

The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

By Mikhail Zygar

Cheka: Lenin's Political Police - The All Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage, December 1917-February 1922

By George Leggett

The Soviet Political Mind: Stalinism and Post-Stalin Change

By Robert C. Tucker

Limits of Reform: Ministry of Internal Affairs in Imperial Russia, 1802-81

By Daniel T. Orlovsky

Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings

By Sydney Schanberg

Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence

By Karen F. Parker