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“Everybody’s been waiting with bated breath for the second edition to appear, because for about ten years it was one of the most sought-after books on secondhand book sites. And it’s been revised, too. Why I’m glued to it is because I think Neil Price does a fantastic job of explaining to a modern, post-Enlightenment person what is a very strange series of cultures. He particularly focuses on the Viking idea of magic and its relation to the Viking idea of the person.” Read more...
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft
Diane Purkiss, Historian
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On War
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Life and Fate
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The Confessions
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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The Interesting Narrative
by Olaudah Equiano
