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Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman

2016

MEMOIR

Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Easter...

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The Last Years of Austria-Hungary

Mark Cornwall

1990

NON-FICTION

The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fa...

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The Times History of the 20th Century

R. J. Overy

1999

NON-FICTION

A major new edition of a best-selling classic of contemporay history

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The Longman Encyclopedia

Asa Briggs

1989

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Enemy at the Gates

William Craig

1973

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The definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides.

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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege

Antony Beevor

1998

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Beevor's masterful account of the battle that changed the course of WWII on the Eastern Front.

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D-Day: June 6, 1944

Stephen E. Ambrose

1994

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The climactic battle of World War II told through the accounts of those who were there.

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The Longest Day

Cornelius Ryan

1959

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Classic account of the Normandy invasion from all perspectives — Allied, German, and French civilian.

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A Time for Trumpets

Charles B. MacDonald

1985

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Comprehensive history of the Battle of the Bulge by a historian who fought in it.

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Shattered Sword

Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully

2005

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Revolutionary account of Midway from the Japanese perspective, debunking many myths.

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Miracle at Midway

Gordon W. Prange

1982

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Detailed reconstruction of the battle that turned the tide in the Pacific.

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Kursk 1943

Dennis Showalter

2013

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Authoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.

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An Army at Dawn

Rick Atkinson

2002

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Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

E. B. Sledge

1981

MEMOIR

One of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.

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Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

1992

NON-FICTION

The story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe. Basis for the HBO miniseries.

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

1961

MILITARY HISTORY

*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...

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The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948

MILITARY HISTORY

Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It i...

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