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Great people and their works
The attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 in today's Germany is not exactly celebrated, regardless of the thousands executed, nor is the heroic undertaking of the one-armed war veteran Claus von Stauffenberg particularly glorified.
Roj Medvedev's book is a collection of biographical portraits of six key collaborators of Joseph Stalin: Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Anastasij Mikoyan, Kliment Voroshilov, Georgi Maljenkov and Mikhail Suslov.
Dara Janeković, a Croatian journalist, publicist and traveler, known for her in-depth reports on the Middle East (When the Sea Boils, Encounters with History), provides a poignant testimony about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Joshua's Heirs.
Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th