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    Cover of The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust
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    The Ori­gins and Onset of the Roman­ian Holocaust
    Henry Eaton
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    Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame
    Michael Munn
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    The Col­lab­o­ra­tion: Hol­ly­wood’s Pact with Hitler
    Ben Urwand
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    Coun­try­men: The Untold Sto­ry of How Den­mark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fel­low Danes — and of the Extra­or­di­nary Role of the SS
    Bo Lidegaard
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    The Box­er’s Sto­ry: Fight­ing for My Life in the Nazi Camps
    Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
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    Rise and Decline of Civ­i­liza­tions: Lessons for the Jew­ish People
    Shalom Salomon Wald
    Cover of Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work
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    Taint­ed Glo­ry in Han­del’s Mes­si­ah: The Unset­tling His­to­ry of the World’s Most Beloved Choral Work
    Michael Maris­sen
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    The Pope and Mus­soli­ni: The Secret His­to­ry of Pius XI and the Rise of Fas­cism in Europe
    David I. Kertzer
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    Defend­ing the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Cru­sades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
    Sha­ran Newman
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    How the Bible Became Holy
    Michael L Satlow
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    The Pope’s Last Cru­sade: How an Amer­i­can Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Cam­paign to Stop Hitler
    Peter Eis­ner
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    The Birth of the Pill
    Jonathan Eig
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    Mid­night at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Mod­ern Istanbul
    Charles King
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    The U.N. Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil in the Age of Human Rights
    Jared Genser
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    Cin­e­ma Judaica: The War Years, 1939 – 1949
    Ken Sutak
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    War­saw 1944: Hitler, Himm­ler and the War­saw Uprising
    Alexandra Richie
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