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My favourite books read in 2021

recommended by Ilan D'Urbino

  • 1

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    How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
    by Daniel Immerwahr

  • 2

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    L’épopée sibérienne - La Russie a la conquête de la Sibérie (DOCUMENTS/HISTOIRE)
    by Eric HOESLI

  • 3

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    La polvere del Messico (Italian Edition)
    by Pino Cacucci

  • 4

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    Fantasmi. Dispacci dalla Cambogia (Italian Edition)
    by Tiziano Terzani

  • 5

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    Il Negus (Italian Edition)
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski & V. Verdiani

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