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The Guns of August

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No. 2

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No. 3

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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No. 4

A Bridge Too Far

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No. 5

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

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No. 6

The Longest Day

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No. 7

1776

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No. 8

Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

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No. 9

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No. 10

Truman

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No. 11

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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No. 12

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

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No. 13

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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No. 14

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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No. 15

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

Stephen E. Ambrose

No. 16

Battle Cry of Freedom

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No. 17

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

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No. 18

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

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No. 19

John Adams

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No. 20

Mornings on Horseback

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No. 21

The Map That Changed the World

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No. 22

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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No. 23

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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No. 24

Theodore Rex

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