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“What Watson teases out…is that the terrible horrors that take place in this part of the world during the 1930s and 1940s and the Second World War have their blueprint in this moment of the breakup of this single empire into ethnic groups. It becomes a real horror show, made all the worse by the sheer incompetence of the Austrian chief of the general staff, General Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf.” Read more...
The Best History Books of 2019
Paul Lay, Historian
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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On War
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Life and Fate
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Histories
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The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
The Interesting Narrative
by Olaudah Equiano
