Nonfiction
The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America
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In the waning days of World War II, American soldiers looted Germany for souvenirs: homebound plunder including lugers, daggers, and helmets—anything with ...Read Review
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
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Higginbotham, a prolific author of English-focused historicals, gives us an excellent non-fiction retelling of the sad life and horrific death of Countess Margaret ...Read Review
The Riviera Set 1920-1960: The Golden Years of Glamour and Excess
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The Riviera Set details the lives and loves of the jet-setting scene on the French Riviera from the late 1920s through the 1950s. ...Read Review
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions & Heretics
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From 1500 BCE to the 20th century, this compendium is packed with famous as well as lesser-known women of history who, in the animator-turned-author’...Read Review
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
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The birth of the Berlin Wall is well-known, and the fall of The Berlin Wall is equally well documented. What hasn’t been ...Read Review
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
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Rappaport tells the story of the Russian Revolution through a different perspective: that of the foreigners residing in or visiting St. Petersburg (renamed ...Read Review
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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Dame Jenni Murray, writer and doyenne of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, here offers brief but highly illuminating biographies of 21 determined, pioneering ...Read Review
Vanished in Hiawatha
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This is the story of the notorious Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, an institution begun as a government pork barrel project during the ...Read Review
Blood and Fears: How America’s Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War
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Most of us are, to varying degrees, aware of the appalling loss of life sustained by the men of Bomber Command and the ...Read Review
Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!!
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In a slim volume including fifteen black and white photographs, an historical timeline, and a discography, Darryl Bullock describes the indescribable: Florence Foster ...Read Review