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Planned books:
- Pavel and I by Dan Vyleta
- Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe by Nicholas Crane
- Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
- Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 by E.J. Hobsbawm
- Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Panzer Division Through France, 1944 by Max Hastings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam by Charles Palliser
Recent books:
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- Paperweight by Stephen Fry
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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