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Battle of Wills: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and the Last Year of the Civil War
By David Alan Johnson
The North’s victory notwithstanding, was one general really more capable than the other?
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
By Sarah Gristwood
A detail-rich chronicle of the Continent’s most formidable — if often unsung — monarchs.
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
By Alexis Peri
Previously suppressed journals tell of the horror endured by Russian civilians in WWII.
George Lucas: A Life
By Brian Jay Jones
This unauthorized biography suggests the film giant’s secret to success is maintaining complete control over every project.
The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
By Marjorie Agosín; translated by Jacqueline Nanfito
One of Chile’s most celebrated poets captures the voice and soul of Sephardic women.
