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| 1. |  | Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous from Tantor Media Price: $31.49 Customer Review:  It's not that I object to messages about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle (which many of my close friends practice btw) or that I mind direct, candid, witty communications. HOWEVER - I strongly object to being mislead into making a purchase by positioning that totally misrepresents the intent of... |
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| 2. |  | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $11.66 Customer Review:  I almost didn't read this book. I mean, it's pretty big. And it didn't really look like it would be the "storytelling" kind of history I had previously been reading. But I went for it. And it was actually quite easy to read the 500-plus pages that chronicle the relationship between the US, Pakistan,... |
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| 3. |  | One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War from Knopf Price: $19.11 Customer Review: Finished this one in 9 days - it was truly engaging and very suspenseful, particularly when one considers that everything is true and well-documented by a talented and sophisticated writter. I recommend. |
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| 4. |  | Defiance: The Bielski Partisans from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This is a brilliant social history of a Jewish resistance movement in Belarus and Eastern Poland. It focusses on the Bielski partisan group lead by the three Bielski brothers. What made this partisan unit different from the others active in the area was the fact A) they were Jewish and B)... |
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| 5. |  | Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History from Pantheon Books Customer Review: When I was growing up in the 1980's, I found that Holocaust survivors were either glad to be alive and well, or full of bitterness. Some were eager to tell their stories to the young; others carried the scars deep inside. For many years (perhaps until the 1970's) it was almost taboo for the... |
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| 6. |  | Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times from Grove Press Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Book was in better condition than I had expected. Shipping was fast and I was kept abreast of shipping etc. VERY satisfied. |
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| 7. |  | The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom from The Lyons Press Price: $11.53 Customer Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. I sit back and wonder how a true story such as this one can't be #1 for years. |
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| 8. |  | A History of the World in 6 Glasses from Walker & Company Customer Review: An interesting history of the world told by exploring the various beverages humankind drinks. informative and entertaining a must read. |
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| 9. |  | The Cold War: A New History from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.40 Customer Review: John Lewis Gaddis has written a comprehensive general history of the Cold War that fulfills his stated purpose of acquainting a post-Cold War generation with the history of that era. It also allows the longtime history buff a comprehensive perspective with which to assess his own conclusions to... |
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| 10. |  | War and Peace from Nick Hern Books Customer Review:  Tolstoy goes far beyond just hitting the peaks of the story but also, writes at length on the hills, valleys, and everything in between (the material that other authors leave out). It is exhaustively detailed, down to the most mundane description of a character. Being that the high-points are few... |
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| 11. |  | Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of Cold War Submarine Espionage from Arrow Books Ltd Customer Review: This book is a real eye opener. If you are interested in military books, particularly NAVY material, this is a must read. I have family in the NAVY and they'll tell you, this is the real deal. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage |
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| 12. |  | The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia from Picador Price: $13.60 Customer Review:  if you have read it all about Stalin times. If you don't understand how an entire population became schizophrenic this is a sure bet. Learning how to whisper your deepest thoughts became a survival skill in Stalin's USSR. There is no equivalent to this work as of today. It is unique and is not the... |
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| 13. |  | The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $17.79 Customer Review: A good bok that introduced me in the world of mister Putin. The author unveils and puts in sequence all the events that took place since its first presidency: Russia has taken a path toward a dangerous Sovereign Democracy that is a grave risk for USA, but even more for us West European citizens.... |
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| 14. |  | The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $18.87 Customer Review: In Chapter 19 of this book, the chapter opens with a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding the conduct of the war. He said that he may be entirely inconsitent, and furthermore, he was prefectly willing to mislead and tell untruths if it would have help win the war. That statement is a perfect... |
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| 15. |  | The Great Upheaval CD: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 from HarperAudio Price: $27.26 Customer Review: Who cares about 1788-1800? After reading this book you'll see the incredible impact on today's world let alone the exciting events and personalities during this incredibly important era. I teach history and found this book enlightening. Insights into the French Revolution and it's impact on Europe... |
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| 16. |  | The Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks) from Cassell military Customer Review: This book was great I could'nt put it down.A epic book portraying the life of a German soldier during WW2. |
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| 17. |  | Young Stalin (Vintage) from Vintage Price: $11.53 Customer Review: Most history books tell the when and where -- this gives incredible insight into the "why"?--what made Stalin the cold-hearted, focused, and driven revolutionary, who was not only able to climb the bloody mountain of power (in competition with equally ruthless killers), but also charming enough to... |
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| 18. |  | The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II from Simon & Schuster Price: $11.74 Customer Review: Moscow is an underrated battle in WW2. If Moscow had fallen, the political, military and social outcomes both in Russia and the world would have been huge. While reading the book, I was surprised to discover that Moscow was also the biggest battle of the war. The book is more a social history... |
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| 19. |  | Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire from Random House Price: $19.80 Customer Review: I thought it'd be more of a table book with more pictures. My bad. |
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| 20. |  | The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) from Kodansha International Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Colonialism was not paternalism neither was benevolent... but if ever it was a "tempered" colonialism imbued by the precept "of doing the decent thing" it probably the British "empire" was... All empires have menacing "borders" where their influence is contested... this is one of the most... |
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