History
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Hardcover
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
Hardcover
The first biography of Alaric to appear in English tells the history of the fourth-and fifth-century Roman Empire through the life of the Goth who attacked it.
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Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
Hardcover
A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war.
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Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Hardcover
The dramatic story of Noor Inayat Khan, a secret agent for the British in occupied France.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Paperback
This “powerful and disturbing history” (The New York Times Book Review) exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas throughout America