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By: Ullrich, Volker
Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
$27.00PaperbackRead moreA riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe–from the author of Hitler: Ascent
“Skillfully conceived and u- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1101872063
- Language: English
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James A. Garfield: Letting His Light Shine
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartJames A. Garfield is usually cast aside as a minor president from the late nineteenth century, one of the cold, bearded statues that fill parks across the country. However, Garfield stood out from his
- Author: McArthur, John D., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1644588382
- Language: English
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By: Jessop, Violet
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
$16.95PaperbackAdd 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: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1574091840
- Language: English
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The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
$18.95PaperbackRead moreWhat happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all.
What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy- Author: Sidebottom, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546857
- Language: English
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By: Jenish, D'Arcy
Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
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By: Wert, Jeffry D.
General James Longstreet
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cartGeneral James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the sur… [more below]
- Author: Wert, Jeffry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671892878
- Language: English
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By: Stuart, Andrea
The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Josephine
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartOne of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-se… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2005
- ISBN10: 0802142028
- Language: English
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By: Cogburn, Brett
Rooster
$15.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe True Story Behind True Grit
Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real “Rooster” Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself. Now, in this page-turning a
- Author: Cogburn, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0758274947
- Language: English
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By: Nechama Tec
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$20.99PaperbackAdd to cartThis is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to “pass” in the forb… [more below]
- Series: Galaxy Book #0772
- Author: Tec, Nechama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0195035003
- Language: English
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Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartFor many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in the 1700s. While this is true, it is only part of the
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 1581821654
- Language: English
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and R… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076781
- Language: English
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By: Calbreath, Dean
The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero
$29.95HardcoverRead moreFrom his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through… [more below]
- Author: Calbreath, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363246
- Language: English
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
$26.99PaperbackAdd to cartAn immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah’s widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1250304857
- Language: English
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By: Simmons, Marc
The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Ote, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the p… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #2
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0806123680
- Language: English
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By: Chernow, Ron
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
$27.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish … [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0525431837
- Language: English
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By: Michael Rutter
Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartProstitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire–why they turned to prostitution, who they w… [more below]
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 219
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1560373571
- Language: English
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By: Russell, Gareth
Young and Damned and Fair
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartWritten with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is “a stunning achievement” (The Sunday Times, London), a… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1501108646
- Language: English
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By: Burnside, Jeff
Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor
$18.95PaperbackRead moreEnamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse’s spectacular rolling hills in ea
- Author: Burnside, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163864005X
- Language: English
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By: Plutarch
The Age of Alexander
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartPlutarch’s influential writings on the ancient world
Plutarch’s parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers s… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0140449353
- Language: English
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By: Dicker, Joël
El Libro de Los Baltimore / The Baltimore Boys
$14.95PaperbackRead moreTras impactar a tres millones de lectores con La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert, Jo?l Dicker regresa con Marcus Goldman en su nueva novela.
«J?el Dicker ha vuelto, s?, y lo ha hecho en plena- Series: Marcus Goldman
- Author: Dicker, Jo?l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 8466343113
- Language: Spanish















