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Vendor: Robert Hutton
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out. Always ready with a drink and a story, Clarke was a well-known figure in Cairo social circles and nightlife. If you then...- $49.99
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Vendor: Sophie Shorland
The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza--The Forgotten Queen Who Bridged Two Worlds
An enthralling and vivid portrait of Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II, that reveals her forgotten place in history. A long-overlooked figure in history, Catherine has a crucial place in the history of the British Empire: she may have failed to produce...- $45.95
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Vendor: Deborah J. Swiss
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
The convict women who built a continent . . . "A moving and fascinating story." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced...- $45.95
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Vendor: Michael Ralph
Before 13th: A Graphic Novel
A gorgeous full-color graphic historical novel, sure to become an instant classic, that explores the friendship and feud between Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass, offering new insights into slavery and incarceration in the United States.Told from the perspectives of statesman and orator Frederick...- $45.95
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Vendor: Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy Moving from a sweeping overview of history to...- $67.99
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Vendor: Emily Hahn
The Soong Sisters Lib/E
In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong Sisters: Eling, Chingling, and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a...- $118.00
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Vendor: Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines--in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body.Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jack Kelly
God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
Benedict Arnold committed treason--for more than two centuries, that's all that most Americans have known about him. Yet Arnold was much more than a turncoat--his achievements during the early years of the Revolutionary War defined him as the most successful soldier of the era....- $45.99
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Vendor: Mary Stockwell
The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States' policy to force native populations to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The most well-known episode in the eviction of American Indians was the "Trail of Tears" along which Southeastern Indians...- $49.99
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Vendor: Joseph Bau
Bau: Artist at War
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 2025A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration...- $39.95
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Vendor: Dalton Fury
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
Author: Dalton FuryISBN-13: 9798200128082Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2008Format: CD- $49.99
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Vendor: Stephen Kinzer
All the Shah's Men Lib/E: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Author: Stephen KinzerISBN-13: 9798200150274Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Format: CD- $71.99
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Vendor: Bernard B. Fall
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Author: Bernard B. FallISBN-10: 1665297379ISBN-13: 9781665297370Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2016Format: MP3 CD- $57.99
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Author: Bernard B. FallISBN-10: 1665297360ISBN-13: 9781665297363Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 5.60h x 6.10w x 1.90d- $57.99
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Vendor: J. C. D. Clark
The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History
There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely a historiographical concept. The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History provides a critical historical analysis of the...- $59.99
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Vendor: John Haywood
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a...- $45.99
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Vendor: Mary Grabar
Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths
The myths about Franklin Delano Roosevelt live on. For the left, FDR was a champion of the working class and the oppressed, suffering abuse as a "traitor to his class." He gave up the lifestyle of the Hudson River gentry to lead his country...- $35.95
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Vendor: Bennett Parten
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
A groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman's march into the...- $34.99
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Vendor: Brian E. Walter
Forgotten War: The British Empire and Commonwealth's Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941-1945
The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions. It was a difficult...- $45.95
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Vendor: Ali Velshi
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States
Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County (GA) and Manhattan (NY) district attorneys--a riveting and shocking narrative of the former president's alleged crimes and conspiracies."Despite having...- $36.99
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Vendor: Evan Mawdsley
December 1941: Twelve Days That Began a World War
An account of the dramatic turning point in World War II that marked the dawn of American might and the struggle for supremacy in Southeast Asia (Times Higher Education). In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between...- $41.99
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Vendor: Sean Lang
First World War for Dummies
From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First World War For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a global perspective of this global conflict, proving insight into the actions and motivations...- $24.99
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The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II
A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and...- $29.99
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Vendor: David Stifel
Twelve Who Ruled Lib/E: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R....- $24.99
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Vendor: Mitchell Zuckoff
Fall and Rise Low Price CD: The Story of 9/11
"Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren't yet born, will find it revelatory." --John...- $19.99
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Vendor: D. Scott Hartwig
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian...- $85.99
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Vendor: Clare Mulley
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka--the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo--was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the...- $45.95
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Vendor: John Haywood
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a...- $45.95
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Vendor: Lydia Reeder
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood--and the brilliant doctor who defied them.After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance...- $45.95
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The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.Big Timber, Montana (population 1,673) is...- $55.99
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Vendor: Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth...- $94.99
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Vendor: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I's favorite, George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.As the king's lover, Buckingham was one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth-century Englishmen at...- $59.95
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Vendor: Ana Elena Correa
What Happened to Bel?n: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's Rights Movement
Foreword by Margaret AtwoodThe heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage--an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights.In 2014, Bel?n, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went...- $45.95
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Vendor: Nigel Hamilton
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and underappreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and...- $57.99
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Vendor: Gary Tiedemann
The Maya: Ninth Edition
The Maya has long been established as the best, most accessible introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general listener and student. This new edition incorporates the most recent archaeological...- $24.99
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Vendor: Pieter M. Judson
The Habsburg Empire Lib/E: A New History
Author: Pieter M. JudsonISBN-10: 1665286288ISBN-13: 9781665286282Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2017Format: CD- $22.49
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Vendor: Ruth Franklin
The Many Lives of Anne Frank
A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diaryIn this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of...- $35.95
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Vendor: Sally Fallon Morell
Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral, and Traditional Peoples Really Ate
Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions, debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate-and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished today.The Paleo craze has taken over the world. It...- $35.00
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Vendor: Clare Mulley
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
Author: Clare MulleyISBN-13: 9798228336971Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2024Format: CD- $55.99
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Vendor: Jeff Forret
The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America--ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves."A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations." --Robert Elder'...- $49.99
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Vendor: David Baker
The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex...- $45.99
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Vendor: Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in AmericaIn the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on...- $49.99
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Vendor: Steven Ujifusa
A Man and His Ship Lib/E: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
Author: Steven UjifusaISBN-10: 8200073718ISBN-13: 9798200073719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2012Format: CD- $20.99
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Vendor: Matthew Gabriele
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones--the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe...- $45.95
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Vendor: Matthew Pearl
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the...- $45.95
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Vendor: Kevin Flynn
The Order: Inside America's Racist Underground
Soon to be a major motion picture!Originally published as The Silent Brotherhood, uncover the chilling depths of America's racist underground with this investigative true crime masterpiece exposing the inner workings of white supremacist militias and domestic terror groups.Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider's...- $65.99
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Vendor: Sebastian Smee
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the...- $45.95
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Vendor: H. Keith Melton
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: H. Keith Melton, Robert WallaceISBN-13: 9798874798093Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Format: MP3 CD- $45.95
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Vendor: John Lee
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as World War II was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on...- $24.99
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Vendor: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while...- $39.99
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