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The Last Act

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

by Janet Malcolm


The Queen of the Quagmire

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

by Georgina Howell

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

by Janet Wallach

Gertrude Bell: The Lady of Iraq

by H.V.F. Winstone

Review of the Civil Administration in Mesopotamia

by Gertrude Bell

The Gertrude Bell Project


Local Hero

Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney with a Catalogue of His Works

by Linda Bantel and Peter H. Hassrick, with essays by Sarah E. Boehme and Mark F. Bockrath, edited by Kathleen Luhrs


Cruel Allied Occupiers

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

by Giles MacDonogh


The Best Book on Mozart

W.A. Mozart

by Hermann Abert, edited by Cliff Eisen, and translated from the German by Stewart Spencer


Our Favorite Bandit

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

by Michael Wallis


The Conservative Betrayed

The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington

by Robert D. Novak


How Hitler Could Have Won

The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II

by Andrew Nagorski

Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

by Rodric Braithwaite


The Cat Went Out for Good

The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975

by Robert Creeley

The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005

by Robert Creeley


Is This Torture Necessary?

Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror

by David Cole and Jules Lobel


Working for the Revolution

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

by Gino Segrè


Good War Gone Bad

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam


The Fever Dream of Mrs. Stowe

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins


Who Is Gordon Brown?

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister

by Tom Bower

Gordon Brown: Speeches, 1997–2006

edited by Wilf Stevenson

Courage: Eight Portraits

by Gordon Brown


Empson: Argufying Against Mufflement

William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians

by John Haffenden

Selected Letters of William Empson

edited by John Haffenden


Vietnam: Portraits from a Tragedy

Tree of Smoke

by Denis Johnson


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