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A Theory of Economic History

by John Hicks

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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Ordinary Men
by Christopher Browning

On War
by Carl von Clausewitz

The Histories
by Herodotus

The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam