History & Military
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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
$35.00 Add to cartEach year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant’s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Onc… [more below]
- Author: Moore, General Ha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 1992
- ISBN10: 0679411585
- Language: English
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Amelia Island
$24.99 Read moreTiny Amelia Island, in the northeast corner of Florida, was once among the most important ports in the western hemisphere.
Before Florida was granted statehood, the island served as an international ga
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hicks, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0738552674
- Language: English
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My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
$17.00 Read moreA riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family’s care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.
In 1967, Si
- Author: Hermez, Sami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1503642038
- Language: English
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Creative Ozone: The Artists of Westbeth
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists’ residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York’s cultural landscape for over fifty years
In 1970, the former Bell Telephone- Author: Chaiken, Miriam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511775
- Language: English
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Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation
$37.99 Add to cartA topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day.
In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingeniou- Author: Barnett, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 180328157X
- Language: English
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Francis I: The Knight-King
$25.00 Add to cartA compelling, concise biography of the sixteenth-century French king, whose patronage was central to Renaissance art.
Francis I of France led one of the most colorful and influential reigns of the si- Series: Renaissance Lives
- Author: Richardson, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391218
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Historia Militar (the Military History Book)
$29.99 Add to cartDescubre los conceptos e ideas clave detr?s de los hitos y eventos m?s importantes de la historia de la guerra, desde los comienzos de la civilizaci?n humana hasta la actualidad.
El libro de la histor
- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217130160
- Language: Spanish
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History of Cities in Maps
$47.99 Add to cartThe city: a concept nearly as old as history itself, it is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to modern-day metropolises, maps have played a
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0008671818
- Language: English
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
$17.99 Add to cartA “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the m
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0062977415
- Language: English
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Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius
$32.99 Add to cartCan Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?
Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal “Yes!” Even
- Author: Williams, Nadya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0310171075
- Language: English
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Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier
$21.99 Add to cartWe are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brou
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123400
- Language: English
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The People’s War: Forgotten Voices from World War Two
$47.99 Read more“There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun a
- Author: Willis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1785949004
- Language: English
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Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion in World War II, D-Day to Ve-Day
$34.95 Add to cartDare All Dangers chronicles the 741st Tank Battalion during World War II. The book stands as more than a narrative history of the battalion, though it recounts the grim facts and figures. It is the st… [more below]
- Author: Warnock, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990584402
- Language: English
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Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College, and the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina
$20.02 Add to cartThe historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter sit-In on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four y
- Author: Brown, Linda Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1959104039
- Language: English
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A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
$38.99 Add to cartIt is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imp
- Author: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0393541096
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations
$22.95 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
“Grindle’s passionate book, including extensive research in Mexico, will ensure that [Zelia Nuttall] is never forgotten.” —Br
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Grindle, Merilee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301544
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Classic Edition
$22.00 Add to cartA translation and transliteration of the most important and authoritative funerary text from Ancient Egypt
At the turn of the twentieth century, a representative of the British Museum traveled to Egypt- Author: Budge, E. a. Wallis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1250384303
- Language: English
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Secrets of Antarctica: The Untold History of the Ice Continent
$24.95 Read moreThe first chapters of Secrets of Antarctica will question the possibility of a lost continent, and visit the land of the Patagonia giants. Next are the Age of Exploration maps depicting the Ice Contin… [more below]
- Series: Esoteric
- Author: Olsen, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1888729988
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
$34.95 Add to cartToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126546
- Language: English
