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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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Histories
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
The Interesting Narrative
by Olaudah Equiano
