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Absolute Victory

Featuring photographs that illuminate the daily lives of soldiers and sailors, this book traces the last year of World War II in both Europe and the Pacific.

100 Events That Shook Our World

This book, through photography and essays, presents one hundred events that have brought changes to the world, from scientific advances to political turbulence to conflict between nations.

Living Through the End of the Cold War

This book is a collection of primary and secondary accounts of the end of the Cold War, describing the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Communist government in Czechoslovakia, Boris

World Atlas of the Past

John Haywood

This four volume set charts the global story of humans from prehistoric times to the present day.

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Men Who Changed the Map, A.d. 400 to 1914

Erick Berry

Brief biographies of great leaders whose actions changed the course of world history: Attila the Hun, Justinian the Great, Mohammed, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Genghis Khan, Frederick II, the

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