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GENERAL HISTORY Cowley, Robert (Ed.): What If? Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel Lambert, Andrew: War at Sea in The Age of Sail McEvedy, Colin: The Penguin Atlases of: Ancient History Medieval History Modern History Recent History American History African History The Pacific World Population History (despite Mr McEvedy's bias against Israel) Pratt, Fletcher: The Battles That Changed History EUROPEAN HISTORY Alexander, Caroline: The Bounty Baldwin, Hanson W: Sea Fights and Shipwrecks Bawer, Bruce: While Europe Slept Bond: War and Society in Europe 1870-1970 Bury, J.B.: The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians Childe, F. Gordon: What Happened in History? Christiansen, Eric: The Northern Crusades Cippola, ed.: The Fontana Economic History of Europe Hastings, Max and Simon Jenkins: The Battle for the Falklands Holmes, George: Europe: Hierarchy and Revolt 1320-1450 Horst, Han van der: Nederland Mallory, J.P.: In Search of the Indo-Europeans O'Connell, Robert L: The Ghosts of Cannae Parker, Geoffrey: The Dutch Revolt Ravics, Slavomir: The Long Walk Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel le: Montaillou Smith, Hedrick: The Russians Tuchman, Barbara: A Distant Mirror The Proud Tower Walraff, Guenther: Ganz Unten (Turks in Germany) West, Rebecca: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Xenophon: Anabasis US HISTORY Ambrose, Stephen E.: Band of Brothers The Wild Blue Undaunted Courage Anderson, Fred: Crucible of War Atkinson, Rick: An Army at Dawn Baker, Mark: Nam Bowden, Mark: Black Hawk Down Brown, Dee: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Caro, Robert A.: Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power Cash, W.J.: The Mind of the South Dershowitz, Alan M.: Chutzpah Ellis, Joseph J.: Founding Brothers American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Evans & Novak: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power Frankel, Max: High Noon in The Cold War Galbraith, John Kenneth: The Great Crash of 1929 Gordon, John Steele: A Thread accross The Ocean Grant, Ulysses S.: Personal Memoirs Hagedorn, Ann: Beyond The River Haley, Alex: The Autobiography of Malcolm X Kaufman, Jonathan: Broken Alliance Kearns Goodwin, Doris: Team of Rivals Kwitny, Jonathan: Endless Enemies Linklater, Arno: Measuring America The Fabric of America Manchester, William: The Glory and the Dream, 1932-72 McCullough, David: The Path between The Seas John Adams 1776 Truman Mangold, Tom and John Penycate: The Tunnels of Cu Chi Miller, Lee: Roanoke, The Mystery of The Lost Colony Moore, Harold G.: We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young Lavender, David: The Way to The Western Sea Lederer, William and Eugene Burdick: The Ugly American Persico, Joseph E.: Roosevelt's Secret War Philbrick, Nathaniel: In The Heart of The Sea Mayflower Schroeder, Pat: 25 Years of House Work and The Place is Still A Mess Shaara, Michael, The Killer Angels Sheehan, Neil: A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Stiles, TJ: Jesse James Tuchman, Barbara: The First Salute Wallace, Terry: Bloods Wolfe, Tom: The Right Stuff Zee, Henri van der: Het Edelste Gewest (Dutch New York) THE MIDDLE EAST Avneri, Arieh L: The Myth of Dispossession Bellow, Saul: To Jerusalem and Back Bowden, Mark: Guests of The Ayatollah Elon, Amos: The Israelis Halevi, Ilan: A History of the Jews Koestler, Arthur: Promise and Fulfillment The Thirteenth Tribe Lewis, Bernard: The Arabs in History The Assasssins The Jews of Islam Semites & Anti-Semites The Political Language of Islam Race and Slavery in the Middle East Mansfield, Peter: The Arabs Morris, Benny: Righteous Victims Naipaul, V.S.: Among the Believers Oren, Michael B.: Six Days of War Potok, Chaim: Wanderings Prager, Denis and Joseph Teluskin: Why the Jews? Pryce-Jones, David: The Closed Circle Thesiger, Wilfred: Arabian Sands Tuchman, Barbara: Bible and Sword AFRICA Gorer, Geoffrey: Africa Dances Hibbert, Christopher: Africa Explored Pakenham, Thomas: The Boer War Villiers, Marq de: White Tribe Dreaming ASIA / PACIFIC Barber, Noel: The War of the Running Dogs (Malaysia) Blair, Clay: The Forgotten War (Korea) Buck: Vikings of the Pacific Grimble, Arthur: A Pattern of Islands Harrer, Heinrich: Seven Years in Tibet Harrison, John A.: The Chinese Empire Hibbert, Christopher: The Dragon Wakes The Great Mutiny, India 1857 Hughes, Robert: The Fatal Shore (Australia) Naipaul, V.S.: India, A Wounded Civilization Osborne, Robin: Indonesia's Secret War (New Guinea) Stover: Culturele Ecologie van de Chinese Beschaving Tuchman, Barbara: Notes From China LITERARY CRITICISM Booth, Wayne C.: The Rhetoric of Fiction Cunliffe, Marcus: The Literature of the United States Edel, Leon: Stuff of Sleep and Dreams Fiedler, Leslie: Waiting for the End Gardner, On Becoming A Novelist Gorley Putt, S.: The Fiction of Henry James Leavis, F.R.: The Great Tradition Matthews, John T.: Faulkner and the Lost Cause Merriwether (ed.): Essays on The Sound and the Fury Powers (ed.): Essays on The Portrait of a Lady Priestley: Literature and Western Man Reeves (ed.): Essays on Look Homeward, Angel Scott: Five Approaches to Literary Criticism Tanner, Tony: Thomas Pynchon Turner: Essays on The Scarlet Letter ROCK MUSIC Clapton, Eric: Clapton DeCurtis, Anthony and James Henke (ed.): The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) Davies, Hunter: The Beatles Doggett, Peter: Abbey Road / Let It Be Gilmore, Mikal: Stories Done Goodman, Fred: The Mansion on The Hill Guralnick, Peter: Last Train to Memphis Careless Love Kooper, Al: Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards Marcus, Greil: Mystery Train Invisible Republic The Rose and The Briar (with Sean Wilentz) Like A Rolling Stone Marsh, Dave and John Swenson (ed.): The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979) The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983) Martin, George: All You Need Is Ears McDonough, Jimmy: Shakey - Neil Young's Biography Norman, Philip: Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation Pritchard, David & Alan Lysaght: The Beatles, An Oral History Sculatti, Gene and Davin Seay: San Francisco Nights (1965-68) Selvin, Joel: Summer of Love Unterberger, Richie: Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers

THE FIRST WORLD WAR Baldwin, Hanson W.: De Eerste Wereldoorlog (WWI) Blond, Georges: De Slag bij Verdun Cowley, Robert (ed.): The Great War Ellis, John: Eye-Deep in Hell Farwell, Byron: The Great War in Africa Fussel, Paul: The Great War and Modern Memory Keegan, John: The Face of Battle Lawrence, T.E.: Seven Pillars of Wisdom Liddell Hart, B.H.: History of the First World War Mosier, John: The Myth of The Great War Taylor, A.J.P.: The First World War Tuchman, Barbara: The Guns of August The Zimmermann Telegram Weintraub, Stanley: Silent Night Winter, Dennis: Death's Men The West Point History of World War I THE SECOND WORLD WAR Barber, Noel: Sinister Twilight (Singapore) Beevor, Anthony: Stalingrad Bielenberg, Christabel: The Past is Myself (memoir) Braddon, Russell: The Naked Island (memoir) Capelle, X. van: Intimi rond Adolf Hitler Clark, Alan: Barbarossa Deighton, Len: Blitzkrieg Fighter Fleming, Peter: Operation Sea Lion Fussell, Paul: Wartime The Boys' Crusade Gough, Robert: Special Operations Singapore 1941-42 Hammond, Robert: A Fearful Freedom (memoir) Hastings, Max: Overlord Heaps, Leo: The Evaders (After The Bridge too far) Hoehne, Heinz: Canaris, Patriot im Zwielicht Hough, Richard: The Longest Battle Ienaga: The Pacific War 1931-45 Johnson, Brian: The secret War Liebman, Marcel: Als Jood Geboren (memoir) Low, N.I.: When Singapore was Syonan-to Manchester, William: American Caesar (Douglas MacArthur) Goodbye, Darkness (memoir) Nelson, Hank: Prisoners of War, Australians Under Nippon Mueller, Joseph: Bis zur Letzten Konsequenz (memoir) Schulman, Milton: Defeat in the West (1944-45) Shirer, William L.: The Nightmare Years (memoir) Sides, Hampton: Ghost Soldiers Sledge, E.B.: With The Old Breed (at Peleliu and Okinawa) Spencer Chapman, F.: The Jungle is Neutral (memoir) Taylor, A.J.P.: The Second World War Tokayer, Marvin and Mary Schwartz: The Fugu Plan Terkel, Studs: "The Good War" Tuchman, Barbara: Sitwell and the American Experience in China THE HOLOCAUST Bettelheim, Bruno: Surviving The Holocaust Donat, Alexander: The Holocaust Kingdom Eliach, Jaffa: Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust Lacqueur, Walter: The Terrible Secret Baker, Leonard: Days of Sorrow and Pain Levi, Primo: Survival in Auschwitz Rotchild, Sylvia (ed.): Voices from the Holocaust Wiesel, Elie: Night BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aciman, André: Out of Egypt Baker, Russell: Growing Up Balakian, Peter: Black Dog of Fate Carr, Virginia Spencer: Dos Passos, A Life DeFrank, Thomas M: Write it When I'm Gone (Gerald Ford) Dorris, Michael: The Broken Cord Dylan, Bob: Chronicles, Volume One Edel, Leon: The Life of Henry James Feynman, Richard: Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman What Do You Care What Other People Think Han Suyin: The Crippled Tree Iacocca, Lee: Iacocca Liu Zongren: Two Years in the Melting Pot Miller, Merle: Plain Speaking (Harry Truman) Nabokov. Vladimir: Speak, Memory O'Connor, Richard: Ambrose Bierce Richards, Keith: Life Salter, James: Burning The Years Singer, Isaac Bashevis: Love and Exile Spencer Carr, Virginia: Dos Passos, A Life Turnbull, Andrew: F. Scott Fitzgerald ed.: The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald Tomkins, Calvin: Living Well is the Best Revenge Truman, Harry: Mr Citizen Yaeger, Chuck: Yaeger POLITICS/PSYCHOLOGY Ardrey, Robert: African Genesis The Territorial Imperative The Social Contract Bakker, Robert: The Dinosaur Heresies Raptor Red Constandse, Anton: Grondslagen van het Anarchisme Cooper, David: The Grammar of Living Erickson: Het Kind en de Samenleving (Child psychology) Firestone, Shulamith: The Dialectic of Sex Frazer: The Golden Bough Machiavelli: The Prince Marais, Eugene: The Soul of the Ape Marx, Karl and Joseph Engels: Het Communistisch Manifest Miller, Juliet: Psychoanalysis and Feminism Ropp, Robert de: Drugs and the Mind The Master Game Skinner, B.F.: Walden Two Beyond Freedom and Dignity EASTERN PHILOSOPHY Baghavad Gita Tao Te Ching (a.o. Ch'u Ta-Kao's translation) Fortman, Han: Oosterse Renaissance Okakura, Kakuzo: The Book of Tea Reps, Paul (ed.): Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Verwaal, E.H.: Wijzen naar de Maan (Zen) Watts, Alan: The Way of Zen Psychotherapy East and West LANGUAGES Gritter, Gert: Van Oerklank tot Moedertaal Newnham, Richard: About Chinese Sanders, Ruth H: German, Biography of A Language Walsh, Len: Read Japanese Today One-Book Category -or- Not Yet Classified Barber, Elizabeth Wayland: The Mummies of Ürümchi Bronson, Po: The Nudist on The Late Shift Bryant Logan, William: Oak, The Frame of Civilisation Dubner, Stephen: Tubulent Souls Huntford, Roland: The Last Place on Earth Lewis, Michael: The New New Thing