Historical
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
$20.99 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. “- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426119
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
$24.99 Add to cartThe vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa–one of the most renowned women rulers in history–and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 031644930X
- Language: English
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The Captain is Out to Lunch
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
A book length collaboration between two underg
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 1574230581
- Language: English
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Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
$20.00 Read more“Cato, history’s most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republican
- Author: Goodman, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042623
- Language: English
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Truman’s Trusted Friend: Charlie Ross and His Remarkable Sisters
$35.95 Add to cartA FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF ONE GENERATION OF REMARKABLE AMERICANS WHO EMERGED FROM THEIR PIONEER ROOTS TO HELP SHAPE SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Charlie Ross and Harry Truman were bo
- Author: Ross, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988547501
- Language: English
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
$11.99 Add to cartA wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather’s farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, cris… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Martin, Joseph Plumb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451461
- Language: English
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
$25.00 Read moreA marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one t- Author: Howell, Georgina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531358
- Language: English
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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in S… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #37
- Author: Parekh, Bhikhu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854577
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City
$28.00 Read moreAntero Pietila shows how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped a city long after his life, from the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the dominating buildings in Baltimore’s downtown to the … [more below]
- Author: Pietila, Antero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1538116030
- Language: English
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The Women of the Cousins’ War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King’s Mother
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford;… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1451629559
- Language: English
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Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess
$19.99 Add to cartJust married and returning to live in her new husband’s native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by hundreds
- Series: Kolowalu Books (Paperback)
- Author: Sargent, Inge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0824816285
- Language: English
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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford
$33.68 Add to cartThe rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley’s original disruptor.
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class univer- Author: de Wolk, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 520383230
- Language: English
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
$15.99 Add to cartAn acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human–both the good and the evil within us.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikize… [more below]
- Author: Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: April 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446591
- Language: English
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Biography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreHermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, L… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199533547
- Language: English
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Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of American (Ameri)CA
$18.99 Add to cartThe author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries wit… [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0156972158
- Language: English
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
$10.99 Add to cartGladys Malvern uses her celebrated talent for prose to share the stories of Henry VIII’s wives with immense personality and captivating drama.
Henry VIII was married to six women during his reign as- Author: Malvern, Gladys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1504030214
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
$16.95 Add to cartUsing historical documents and translated by R?ine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan’s contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life… [more below]
- Author: Pernoud, Regine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0812812603
- Language: English
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
$23.99 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (New York Times). This book is highly recommended for students and read… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618711694
- Language: English
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In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
$20.99 Add to cartThe true story behind the legend of Dracula – a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker’s recently discov
- Author: McNally, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0395657830
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of Camelot
$23.99 Add to cartA monumental work of investigative journalism from one of the greatest reporters in American history, revealing the Kennedy White House as never before.
In this widely acclaimed and bestselling book,… [more below]- Author: Hersh, Seymour M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0316360678
- Language: English
