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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Biography & Autobiography

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Deep Undercover My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances As a KGB Spy in America

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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The Diary of an Invalid Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, And 1819

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Themes: Historical

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Bridge Builder An Insider’s Account of Over Sixty Years in Post-war Reconstruction, International Diplomacy, and German-American Relations

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Sisters in Resistance How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife, and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

#20

Hitler: A Biography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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The Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Stauffenberg Symbol of Resistance : the Man who Almost Killed Hitler

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

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Themes: Historical • Biography & Autobiography

If The Empire Builders by Jacob Abbott is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Historical, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by John "Chick" Donohue, Flora Thompson, Adolf Hitler, Adam Hochschild, and others.