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Notable Nonfiction Books of Early 2025
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning -
Histories
by Herodotus -
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor
