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The ordeal of total war, 1939-1945
The lessons of history
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
World Restored Europe After Napoleon
An introduction to contemporary history
The sense of reality
A year from a correspondent's notebook
Lectures on modern history, from the irruption of the northern nations to the close of the American revolution
The pageant of world history
These Truths
The age of the democratic revolution
1913
Heads of states and governments
Long shadows
The world in the time of Abraham Lincoln
Crawling from the Wreckage
The sixties unplugged
The Renaissance, 1493-1520
An outline of political growth in the nineteenth century
The terrorists
Lost colony
Century of War
Explorations in crisis
The might of nations
The Atlantic world
America's economic supremacy
The 2000s decade in photos
Forgotten news
Understanding the past five centuries
If you lived in colonial times
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