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  Stalingrad

  The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

  by Antony Beevor

  This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold... (more)
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  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

  by William L. Shirer

  Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of... (more)
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  Barbarossa

  The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-1945

  by Alan Clark

  On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million... (more)
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  The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968

  by William Manchester, MANCHASTER WILLIAM

  A masterwork of history-restored to print and made available for the first time in trade paperback. In this massive, compellingly readable book, America's preeminent biographer/historian brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that developed the world's most technologically advanced weapons (from cannons to submarines to anti-aircraft guns); provided arms to generations of German... (more)
• Hitler Moves East 1941-1943Paul Carell

  

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  Hitler Moves East 1941-1943

  by Paul Carell

  Mass Market Paperback694 pages
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  Battles of World War II: Book 3

  The Fall of Berlin 1945

  by Antony Beevor

  'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those millions caught up in the nightmare crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat.
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  Baudolino

  by Umberto Eco

  It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts-a... (more)