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  The middle kingdoms : a new history of Central Europe

  • Rady, MartynAcquisition date: 5/25/2023
  • "Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where, historically, empires clashed and sieges from the east toppled kingdoms and ......Read more
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  Road to surrender : three men and the countdown to the end o...

  • Thomas, EvanAcquisition date: 5/17/2023
  • "This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the ......Read more
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  The Russo-Ukrainian war : the return of history

  • Plokhy, SerhiiAcquisition date: 5/16/2023
  • "Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it ......Read more
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  The land of hope and fear : Israel's battle for its inner so...

  • Kershner, IsabelAcquisition date: 5/16/2023
  • Despite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the country is ......Read more
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  The last secret of the secret annex : the untold story of An...

  • Wijk, Joop vanAcquisition date: 5/16/2023
  • Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold, until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people ......Read more
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  Red memory : the afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

  • Branigan, TaniaAcquisition date: 5/16/2023
  • "'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism ......Read more
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  The watchdog : how the Truman Committee battled corruption a...

  • Drummond, SteveAcquisition date: 5/9/2023
  • Drawing on records of the Truman Committee as well as other materials, an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR recounts how Harry Truman ......Read more
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  Tomorrow perhaps the future : writers, outsiders, and the Sp...

  • Watling, SarahAcquisition date: 5/9/2023
  • "An account of extraordinary artists and activists whose determination to live - and to create - with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish ......Read more
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  Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets

  • Bilger, BurkhardAcquisition date: 5/2/2023
  • "What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to ......Read more
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  To the end of the earth : the US Army and the downfall of Ja...

  • McManus, John C.Acquisition date: 5/2/2023
  • The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months--or ......Read more
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