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STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. In a readable full-length biography, a German historian tells the story of the aristocratic colonel whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by freakish chance.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. A fast-paced World War II sea yarn that dramatizes the futility of applying humane law to war.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'etat are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons, but as tragic simpletons.
BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A skillful biography of the fabulous young Victorian whose extraordinary style was a clear forerunner of art nouveau.
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. Through the inchoate words and deeds of the Watts rioters, a Los Angeles newsman evokes the agonies of the big city ghetto.
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. By rebalancing the Pacific campaign on the fulcrum of the Battle of Midway, a noted teller of sea stories (Night to Remember, Day of Infamy) shows why Japan lost World War II.
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The adventures of a fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along the way.
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5. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
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7. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6)
8. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (4)
9. An Operational Necessity, Griffin
10. The King of the Castle, Holt (10)
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2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)
3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3)
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5. Everything But Money, Levenson (6)
6. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (7)
7. Incredible Victory, Lord
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10. The Lawyers, Mayer (8)
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