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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. - Winston Churchill.

The American philosopher George Santayana is quoted as saying that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. With more than 200,000 books in the Amazon Kindle bookstore's "history" category, Kindle-owning history buffs will not run out of reading material any time soon. Recent history nonfiction includes:

Before The Holocaust: Three German-Jewish Lives, 1870-1939, edited and translated by Thomas Dunlap. Xlibris, 2011. Print Length: 456 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $7.99; Hardcover $18.24. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Before The Holocaust opens a window onto the turbulent history of German Jewry between 1870 and 1939 through three autobiographies: Käte Frankenthal, a physician, health, reformer, and social democratic politician from Berlin; Max Moses Polke a lawyer and Zionist supporter from Breslau; and Joseph Benjamin Levy, a teacher and cantor from Frankfurt am Main. These autobiographies reveal some of the lives that were possible for German Jews in the years between the establishment of the Reich in 1871, when they were finally granted full political and civic right, and the assumption of power by the National Socialists in 1933. They provide insight into the society of Germany during the imperial period and World War I, the unsettled politics and social and economic upheaval of the Weimar years (1919-1933), and the circumstances that led to the rise of the National Socialists. Finally, they chronicle the assault on the Jewish community between 1933 and 1939, a period that paved the way for the systematic genocide that soon followed." - http://beforetheholocaustbook.com/book.html

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, by Scott Miller. Random House, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $17.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
" In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. The President and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Along the way, readers meet a veritable who’s who of turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley’s visionary secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of many thrilling military adventures recounted here." - from the hardcover edition.

Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America, by Jonathan Gill. Grove Press, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $14.16; Hardcover $21.86. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. From Henry Hudson's first contact with native Harlemites, through Harlem's years as a colonial outpost on the edge of the known world, Gill traces the neighborhood's story, marshaling a tremendous wealth of detail and a host of fascinating figures from George Washington to Langston Hughes. Harlem was an agricultural center under British rule and the site of a key early battle in the Revolutionary War. Later, wealthy elites including Alexander Hamilton built great estates there for entertainment and respite from the epidemics ravaging downtown. In the nineteenth century, transportation urbanized Harlem and brought waves of immigrants from Germany, Italy, Ireland, and elsewhere. Extensively researched, impressively synthesized, eminently readable..." - Publisher.

Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned, by Kenneth C. Davis. Harper Collins, 2011. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.81. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Here, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its debut as a New York Times bestseller, is the revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook that changed the way we look at history. First published two decades ago, Don't Know Much About® History took readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history, from Columbus's voyages to recent events. The book became an instant classic and has sold more than 1.6 million copies. Now Davis has brought his groundbreaking work up to the present, including the history of an 'Era of Broken Trust,' from the end of the Clinton administration through the recent Great Recession. This additional material covers the horrific events of 9/11and the rise of conspiracy theorists, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the New Orleans levees, the global financial meltdown, the election of Barack Obama, and the national controversy of same-sex marriage. For history buffs and history-phobes alike,...Davis shows once more why People magazine said, 'Reading him is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had.' " - Amazon.

Normandy Crucible: The Decisive Battle that Shaped World War II in Europe, by John Prados. NAL, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.13. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove to be the crucible in which the outcome of World War II would be decided. Author John Prados tells the story of how and why the tactics and battle plans of Normandy proved so formative, and reconstructs the climactic Allied Normandy breakout from both sides of the battle lines. Prados is a Senior Research Fellow on national security affairs, including foreign affairs, intelligence, and military subjects, at the National Security Archive." - Amazon.

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II , by Denis Avey, with Rob Broomby. Da Capo Press, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $14.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labor. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past that haunted his dreams, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story..." - Amazon.

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War, by Amanda Foreman. Random House, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $17.99; Hardcover $19.88. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history-making. In A World on Fire, Amanda Foreman examines the fraught relations from multiple angles while she introduces characters both humble and grand, bringing them to vivid life over the course of her sweeping and brilliant narrative. Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of the Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, they served as officers and infantrymen, sailors and nurses, blockade runners and spies. Through personal letters, diaries, and journals, Foreman has woven together their experiences to form a panoramic yet intimate view of the war on the front lines, in the prison camps, and in the great cities of both the Union and the Confederacy.... a complex and groundbreaking work that will surely cement Amanda Foreman’s position as one of the most influential historians of our time. Foreman is a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars, by Paul Collins. Crown, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.78. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled... The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives
headlong into the era’s most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio - a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor - all raced to solve the crime....a rollicking tale - a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day." - from the hardcover edition.
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