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Here is the bizarre history of the Ottoman Empire as led by its extravagant and corrupt sultans--four hundred years of tyrants who made Turkey a great empire, then allowed her to decline into ostentatious and impotent decay.

Thomas Sowell goes beyond the political view of immigration and presents the whole phenomena of migration and immigration and the major role it plays in the general advancement of the human race.

Kessler presents the first in-depth, unbiased account of the CIA's core operations, its abject failures, and its resounding successes.

In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key military target. It soon became rife with rogue soldiers, Jewish refugees, celebrities, and Nazi agents. In 1942, Americans and British arrived, and the port soon saw power grabs, plot twists, and diplomatic intrigue. Destination Casablanca is the riveting and untold history of this glamorous and beloved city, memorialized in the classic film, at the heart of World War II.

Historian Thomas Fleming examines the battles that created American independence, revealing how the strategy of a professional army secured victory, independence, and a lasting peace for the young nation.

This fourth volume of Revolution takes listeners from William of Orange's accession to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, a time of the founding of the Bank of England and the stock exchange.

For over one hundred years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps.

Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka.

In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South.

Relying on firsthand accounts, historian Jane Hampton Cook weaves together several different narratives to create a vivid, multidimensional account of the 1814 burning of Washington, including the escalation that led to it and the immediate aftermath.