Lawrence Wright on al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11; the Pulitzer.
Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.
Anne Applebaum's Pulitzer history of the Soviet camps from the archives.
The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.
A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.
Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.
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