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Title	Author	Description
The Thirty Years War Thirty Years War	C.V. Wedgwood Wedgwood	The only comprehensive account of the war in English, C.V. Wedgwood's magisterial book is a triumph of literary history that brings to life the war's campaigns, battles, and negotiations, as well as its terrible human toll. Contributors: Anthony Grafton
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 Savage War of Peace	Alistair Horne Horne	Not only essential reading for anyone who wishes to investigate this dark stretch of history, but a lasting monument of the historian's art.
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West Sacagawea's Nickname	Larry McMurtry McMurtry	Once again Larry McMurtry casts a keen and elegaic eye not only on the often harsh truths of the West, but also on the power of western illusions.
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West Sacagawea's Nickname	Larry McMurtry McMurtry	In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars—figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist	Alexander Berkman Berkman	No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals. Contributors: John William Ward
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China Peking Story	David Kidd Kidd	"Kidd's pieces are simple, graceful, comic, mournful miniatures of an ominous catastrophe, the unprecedently swift death of a uniquely ancient civilization." —John Updike
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties Part of Our Time	Murray Kempton Kempton	Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Contributors: David Remnick
Paris and Elsewhere Paris and Elsewhere	Richard Cobb Cobb	Collecting memoirs, portraits of favorite haunts, appreciations of Simenon and Queneau, René Clair and Brassaï, and including the famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," Paris and Elsewhere shows us a France unglimpsed by tourists.
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States Names on the Land	George R. Stewart Stewart	Organized thematically (sample chapters: "Yankee Flavor," "America Discovers Columbus," and "How Names Were Symbols of Empire") this lighthearted book will be a delight for anyone who ever wondered how their hometown, or (more likely) the next town over, could be called that. Contributors: Matt Weiland
My Century My Century	Aleksander Wat Wat	The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century. Contributors: Czesław Miłosz , Richard Lourie