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        Goering’s Man in Paris

        Goering's Man in Paris

        The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

        by Jonathan Petropoulos

        Crassus

        Crassus

        The First Tycoon

        Ancient Lives

        by Peter Stothard

        Adventurer

        Adventurer

        The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

        by Leo Damrosch

        Barnave

        Barnave

        The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette

        by John Hardman

        Ramesses the Great

        Ramesses the Great

        Egypt's King of Kings

        Ancient Lives

        by Toby Wilkinson

        Martin Heidegger’s Changing Destinies

        Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies

        Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism

        by Guillaume Payen

        Translated by Jane Marie Todd and Steven Rendall

        Maimonides

        Maimonides

        Faith in Reason

        Jewish Lives

        by Alberto Manguel

        Alexander the Great

        Alexander the Great

        A Life in Legend

        by Richard Stoneman

        Thomas Jefferson

        Thomas Jefferson

        A Biography of Spirit and Flesh

        by Thomas S. Kidd

        Morozov

        Morozov

        The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

        by Natalya Semenova

        Translated by Arch Tait

        Sidney Reilly

        Sidney Reilly

        Master Spy

        Jewish Lives

        by Benny Morris

        The Making of Oliver Cromwell

        The Making of Oliver Cromwell

        by Ronald Hutton

        The Last Revolutionaries

        The Last Revolutionaries

        The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals

        by Laura Mason

        Becoming Elijah

        Becoming Elijah

        Prophet of Transformation

        Jewish Lives

        by Daniel C. Matt

        The Fortunes of Francis Barber

        The Fortunes of Francis Barber

        The Story of the Enslaved Jamaican Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

        by Michael Bundock

        The Polymath

        The Polymath

        A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

        by Peter Burke

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