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Book SynopsisReaders around the world have been enthralled by Killing England, Killing the Rising Sun, and Killing Reagan--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. In Killing Patton, Bill O''Reilly and Martin Dugard recount the dramatic final months of World War II in Europe, and General George S. Patton Jr.''s invaluable contributions to the Allied victory.General Patton died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton''s tragic demise, naming the many powerful people who wanted him dead.

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Book SynopsisA riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O''Reilly''s Killing Lincoln. The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK. More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O''Reilly''s Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the iconic anchor of The O''Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedyand how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptat

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Book SynopsisA New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph[Putin''s People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism. Anne Applebaum, The AtlanticThis riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades. Peter Frankopan, Financial TimesInterference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated it?I

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Book SynopsisJesper Majbom Madsen is Associate Professor in Greek and Roman History at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. His research interests range from historiography of the Roman Empire, and Greece under Roman rule, to Greek and Roman writers' views on Roman power. He has co-edited Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (2016).Trade ReviewThis book fills a crucial need. It makes Dio a more teachable author and will give scholars in many areas of Roman history an entree into critical engagement with Dio as something other than a source of facts. It provides important insights into the possibilities of Greco-Roman historiography as political analysis and the origins of our modern metanarrative of the late republic and Augustan periods … Scholars and teachers of Roman historiography and political thought, as well as historians of the Augustan period, should welcome this study warmly. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This brief book … is a solid, welcome study on a neglected subject. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through graduate students. * CHOICE *This handy little book is an excellent introduction for anyone who is reading Dio’s Roman History. It has certainly made this reviewer look at Dio’s work in a new light. * Classics for All *Madsen’s slim work merits a careful reading by any scholar dealing with the history of Rome ... The remarks on the political views of the author of the Roman History contained in this volume are not only original and fresh, but also without any doubt provide a key to understanding and interpreting his vision of Rome’s past. * Electrum *[Madsen’s] prose is clear and uncomplicated; his central thesis surrounding Dio’s politicised agenda gathers momentum with each section ... Overall, this is a timely and successful introduction to an author whose reputation is being actively re-examined and rehabilitated. It contains a surprising depth of information in its slender cover and yet remains readable and accessible. * The Classical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. In search for the ideal form of government 2. Roman narratives 3. Cassius Dio and his history of Rome Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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