Historical
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Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent
$29.95 Add to cartWould it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque id
- Author: Bowman, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0813946670
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa’s Visionary Leader George M. Low
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the “ultimate engineer” du
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Jurek, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149622941X
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured
- Author: Van Iperen, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0063119331
- Language: English
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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
$33.68 Add to cart“King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history.”–The Wall Street Journal
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary fi- Author: Nelson, Janet L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 520383214
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man
$21.00 Add to cartWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to … [more below]
- Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Author: Hamann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1848852770
- Language: English
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library
$17.00 Add to cartThis impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollyw… [more below]
- Author: Wilson-Lee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982111402
- Language: English
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Titanic Survivor
$17.95 Add to cartViolet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on… [more below]
- Author: Jessop, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1574093150
- Language: English
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Remember Me: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story
$15.95 Add to cartThree months after the Nazi’s marched down the streets of her town in Poland, Marian Kampinski turned fourteen years old. Her childhood destroyed, she spent the rest of her adolescence haunted and hun… [more below]
- Author: Kampinski, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1440121788
- Language: English
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Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from one of the most acclaimed biographers–the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years.William Henry Seward was on… [more below]
- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1439121184
- Language: English
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Nuts!: The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffe
$14.99 Add to cartNuts! The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffe
Award winning Author Tom McAuliffe, chronicles General “Nuts!” McAuliffe’s, Siege at Bastogne during WW2’s crucial Battle of the Bulge and his 35+ year
- Author: McAuliffe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986451107
- Language: English
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Dam Buster
$34.99 Add to cartSir Barnes Wallis CBE became a household name after the hit 1954 film The Dam Busters in which Michael Redgrave portrayed a shy, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy. Yet this was a sim… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1474623425
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow
$19.00 Add to cartTrue story from the major motion picture “In Darkness,” official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1943, with Lvov’s 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into- Author: Chiger, Krystyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250018986
- Language: English
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Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History
$24.95 Add to cartKit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson’s own guardianship of hi
- Series: Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0826332978
- Language: English
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
$19.95 Add to cartWas Cyrus Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed’s life and those of his followers, the Koreshans, … [more below]
- Author: Millner, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0813064406
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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Forty Years on the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it.—American Historical Review
When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier “the odyssey of a nineteen
- Author: Stuart, Granville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803293208
- Language: English
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
$14.95 Add to cartJ. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that “if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conceptio… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Adams, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250002
- Language: English
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Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery
$20.00 Add to cartIn perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains–and enigmas–in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald–his family… [more below]
- Author: Mailer, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: January 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0345404378
- Language: English
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Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
$21.99 Add to cartA stunning biography of history’s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun
For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0312539398
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00 Add to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
