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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Best Price: $15.11 I haven't finished the book yet but it's hard to put down. sometimes it gets a bit long in... | Night (Oprah's Book Club) Best Price: $2.99 Regardless of how many times I return to this book, it never fails to shock and inspire. An... | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Best Price: $2.28 ACH, DU LIEBER!!!!
That's the biting phrase that can best epitomize my personal feelings at... | The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) Best Price: $20.15 I did'nt learn my lesson from reading "Army at Dawn". I know war is hell, but my... | Things We Couldn't Say Best Price: $16.32 The true story of true Christians, and Dutch patriots, Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma, and their... |
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Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep) Best Price: $10.82 Scoring high on the AP European History Exam is very different from earning straight... | Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most Best Price: $17.45 This book is a wonderful resource for Americans interested in cooking authentic Italian food. ... | Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History) Best Price: $11.24 This is a well-written, beautifully illustrated book. The treatment of the footnotes is unusual... | My Life in France Best Price: $5.41 This was a wonderful memoir about Julia Child. I especially found it interesting that she fell... | The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Best Price: $27.00 Excuse the old song, but I could not help but to use it for this splendid book. Let me start by... |
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed Best Price: $18.49 Despite the approachable medium of the grpahic novel, Maus is an intense experience that I think... | How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) Best Price: $2.90 Perhaps readers/reviewers who have read this work might also be keenly interested to learn of my... | Thunderstruck Best Price: $7.89 Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson, reviewed by Sandy
Once again Erik Larson manages to weave two... | A Year in Provence Best Price: $2.45 A Year in Provence begins with New Year's lunch and ends with Christmas lunch. Between the two... | Man's Search for Meaning Best Price: $2.76 What can a person expect of life in a concentration camp? Is there a chance you can find meaning... |
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book) Best Price: $7.80 Imagine a life where you could only draw what the government said you could draw. A life where... | Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Best Price: $13.69 Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Very interesting true story... | Caesar: Life of a Colossus Best Price: $10.94 It is a difficult task to put the life of such an extraordinary person as Julius Caesar into one... | Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World Best Price: $19.77 Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter... | Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970 Best Price: $14.97 Amazon Significant Seven, March 2008 : Over the past three decades, Ireland has metamorphosed... |
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"What's Happening to Me?" A guide to puberty Best Price: $4.78 This is a great book for children nearing or into puberty. We bought it for an autistic child... | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II Best Price: $3.60 If you are looking for a thrilling and captivating mystery that just happens to also be a true... | The Hiding Place (Deluxe Christian Classics) Best Price: $5.62 This book is beautiful inside and out. The outside is burgundy leather? bound with gold stamped... | I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust Best Price: $2.70 This book is so powerful. I have read many stories of Holocaust survivors, but few if any have... | The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Best Price: $4.31 I enjoyed the basic story but he goes on and on at points about things that got rather boring. ... |
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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe Best Price: $6.99 I finished it in three days, it reads like a novel! What a journey, I was absolutely blown away... | Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) Best Price: $7.39 When I included this and Maus 1 & Persepolis I was informed that they are not graphic novels... | God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Best Price: $14.07 I ordered this book in its audio version in an effort to fill my travel time to and from work. ... | The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War Best Price: $16.16 I will not repeat the praises of the preceding reviewers with which I fully agree. This I must... | The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Best Price: $13.57 I think that this book was very infomative. I didn't need to do anymore research to find the... |
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Survival In Auschwitz Best Price: $5.09 Excellant book, I felt like I was living Mr Levi's life in the camp with him. What a wonderful... | Angela's Ashes Best Price: $10.24 For some reason, and I don't know why, I had it in my head that Angela's Ashes was about Frank... | The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire Best Price: $14.89 The author tells a number of fascinating stories as he follows the life of Henry Wickham from... | Meditations (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.30 Marcus Aurelius was an emperor of Rome, but this is not what he is remembered for. What really... | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Best Price: $6.71 Another brick from the the Professors' classroom. I got to page 148, which was quite a feat,... |
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture Best Price: $5.48 King's book is historical, but it reads like a novel as it weaves Italian history in with the... | The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: Nasa's Nazis, JFK, And Majic-12 Best Price: $10.81 "The SS Brotherhood of the Bell" is pretty interesting book, especially if you are a... | God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World Best Price: $15.74 Before I read this book, I often wondered why Americans, regardless of the war, always see... | Holy Blood, Holy Grail Best Price: $3.50 I have enjoyed reading the book. My only negative comment is that it is 25 years dated and... | Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Best Price: $11.82 Although a bit confusing in his presentation of dozens of key characters unfamiliar to the... |
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) Best Price: $6.50 Simon Wiesenthal is best known as the man who had been indefatigable and single-minded in trying... | The Hiding Place Best Price: $7.50 This is a wonderful story and it begs the question: Could I have been that brave and... | Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Best Price: $40.95 The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) is most often... | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage) Best Price: $7.53 The Last Mughal starts somewhat slowly but picks up steam as it moves to the actual sepoy... | The Welsh Girl Best Price: $6.88 The Welsh Girl is a sensitive and haunting story about enemies and friends during WWII. The... |
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire Best Price: $18.84 Well written and easy to read. Some interesting insights that I have not read in detailed... | Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Best Price: $15.92 MARCO POLO: FROM VENICE TO XANADU BY LAURENCE BERGREEN: Laurence Bergreen, whose last book, Over... | Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna Best Price: $16.50 I have never written a review before, but felt compelled to do it this time. This is partly... | Hiroshima Best Price: $2.59 In Hiroshima, John Hersey elucidates the entirety of his journalistic work in the introductory... | Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Hinges of History) Best Price: $5.39 Liked this book as much as the How the Irish Saved Civilization.
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Sparkling Gems From The Greek: 365 Greek Word Studies For Every Day Of The Year To Sharpen Your Understanding Of God's Word Best Price: $22.82 This book is the best devotional I have ever read.It has really been a blessing in my life.I... | Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology Best Price: $12.36 When you think about it, it makes sense that the Nazis thought outside the box. They were... | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.99 A previous reviewer claims that Arendt's book shows the ambivalence of human nature, proving... | The Pope's Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland's New Elite Best Price: $12.47 David McWilliams may be an economist, but that shouldn't stop anyone from reading this... | |