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Dead Wake

Erik Larson

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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Nick Bilton

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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

Steven Johnson

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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

Jared M. Diamond

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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

Robert Kurson

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

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The forward move on to the American continent was the work not of princes or capitalists at home in Europe, but of gold-hungry frontiersmen spurred on by the rapid exhaustion of the islands’ deposits. Without the short-lived gold rush on the Caribbean islands and the nearby Tierra Firme, the impetus towards the territorial conquest of the mainland

John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

Rich Cohen

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)

Jared Diamond

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