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Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb

by Thomas Powers

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Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson