Historical
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Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship
$29.95 Read moreTells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens’ relationship with his sister-in-law, his ‘best and truest friend’ Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to li… [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1526166089
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary
$17.95 Add to cartCalamity Jane follows the life of Martha Jane Cannary, a nineteenth-century woman who went from penniless orphan to one of the most famous figures of the American West. In an era when women had few op… [more below]
- Author: Herda, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493031945
- Language: English
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95 Read moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- Language: English
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Sidney Reilly: Master Spy
$26.00 Read moreA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage
“Mr. Morris’s dogged research . . . lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an often-cryptic figure.”–Dian- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Morris, Benny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300248261
- Language: English
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
$40.00 Read moreTHE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky’s three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman’s life. Here, S… [more below]
- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036157
- Language: English
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Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell
$30.00 Read moreParnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imagina… [more below]
- Author: Bew, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0717154521
- Language: English
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In the Path of Abraham: How Donald Trump Made Peace in the Middle East-And How to Stop Joe Biden from Unmaking It
$28.00 Read moreAn insider’s perspective on how the Abraham Accords were concluded and why they offer a way forward to a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East–if only they are not abandoned by the Biden… [more below]
- Author: Greenblatt, Jason D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1637583095
- Language: English
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Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler
$18.95 Add to cartSophie Scholl and her brother Hans were handsome, bright university students in 1942 Germany. As members of the Hitler Youth, they had once been enthusiastic supporters of the German renewal promised
- Author: Hanser, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1586175572
- Language: English
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome
$17.95 Read moreStigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift o
- Author: Boin, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 039386751X
- Language: English
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
$30.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history–from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645608
- Language: English
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To Raise the Fallen: A Selection of the War Letters, Prayers, and Spiritual Writings of Fr. Willie Doyle
$18.95 Read moreIrish military chaplain Fr. Willie Doyle, S.J., died in action during the Battle of Passchendaele on August 16, 1917, having been hit by a German shell while rushing to the aid of wounded soldiers tra
- Author: Kenny, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: October 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1621642569
- Language: English
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Tattered Kimonos in Japan: Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II
$34.95 Read moreExamines Japan’s war generation–Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict
Since John Hersey’s Hiroshima–the cl- Series: War, Memory, and Culture
- Author: Rand, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 817321772
- Language: English
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Clara Barton Courage Under Fire
$11.99 Add to cartKnown during the Civil War as the “Angel of the Battlefield,” remarkable Clara Barton risked everything to save countless lives on the frontlines of battle. Once a painfully timid child, Clara was as … [more below]
- Series: Heroes of History Unit Study Curriculum Guides
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: April 18 2003
- ISBN10: 1883002508
- Language: English
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Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
$22.99 Read moreA sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor
- Author: Billingsley, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1643364618
- Language: English
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William Wallace
$16.95 Read moreWilliam Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the War… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1841585939
- Language: English
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The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
$40.00 Read moreAn astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite–Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich M… [more below]
- Author: Dougherty, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0394543416
- Language: English
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Deliverance
$12.99 Read more- Author: Czerkasij, Alla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0828027153
- Language: English
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The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess—In Her Own Words
$29.99 Add to cartA new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan’s memoir–the story of the “real” Lady Grantham of Downton Abbey
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love- Author: Balsan, Consuela Vanderbilt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1250017181
- Language: English
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Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture
$29.95 Read moreThe first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran
Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and cha
- Author: Goldstein, Mark L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123615
- Language: English
