History & Military
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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
$35.00 Add to cartAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation
In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and it- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 059365434X
- Language: English
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Dear Mom: Dear Mom: A Sniper’s Vietnam
$9.99 Add to cartIn Vietnam’s jungle war, only one group of men was feared more than death itself–the Marine Scout Snipers. . . .
The U.S. Marine Scout Snipers were among the most highly trained soldiers in Vietnam.- Author: Ward, Joseph T.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 31 1991
- ISBN10: 0804108536
- Language: English
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Steam and Steel: The Eastern Shore of Virginia 1870-1884
$25.00 Add to cartThe years following the Civil War were fraught with change for the people of the Virginia counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. War had altered patterns of trade… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Brooks Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 162806451X
- Language: English
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Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
$33.99 Add to cartOnly Native Americans have held the political identity of being citizens of nations within a nation. After the American Revolution, they had to decide whether gaining United States citizenship would h
- Author: Rosier, Paul C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105879
- Language: English
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River: A Hudson Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartLeslie Day’s life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin–a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In her hea
- Author: Day, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783882
- Language: English
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The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
$20.00 Read moreA compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire
The Ptolemaic era, Egypt’s last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age.- Author: De La Bedoyere, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284942
- Language: English
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Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality
$30.00 Add to cart‘[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book…Mount makes for a delightful guide’ — Literary Review
From troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned- Author: Mount, Ferdinand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1399421883
- Language: English
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
$17.99 Add to cartOnce Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial
- Author: Townsend, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 006199720X
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
$39.99 Read moreNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unra
- Author: Barnes, Rhae Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496344
- Language: English
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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family
$38.00 Read moreA spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia–among them, Queen Marie Antoinette of France–tracing their lives as they balanced dynastic duty with personal … [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Veronica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561900
- Language: English
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Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms
$32.99 Read moreThe award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.
Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the Am
- Author: Bennett, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063418177
- Language: English
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The Journal of H?l?ne Berr: A Young Jewish Woman’s Life in Occupied Paris
$17.99 Read more“At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document” SIMONE WEIL
From April 1942 to March 1944, H?- Author: Berr, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1906694192
- Language: English
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G.I. G-Men: The Untold Story of the Fbi’s Search for American Traitors, Collaborators, and Spies in World War II Europe
$29.00 Add to cartThe explosive, untold true story of the band of patriotic FBI agents who went undercover to hunt down U.S. traitors on foreign soil during World War II and later investigated war criminals in the lead… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544139
- Language: English
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$24.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95 Add to cartGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, expl… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237617
- Language: English
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartAn “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance–both nonviolent and violent–to white supremacy
Named a Best B- Author: Carter Jackson, Kellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1541601599
- Language: English
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War from the Rear: A Ukrainian Aid Volunteer’s Story
$25.99 Add to cartA gripping, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply human portrait of life in Ukraine reshaped by war. In this powerful collection of essays, writer Andriy Lyubka-thrust into the role of an unlikely volunte
- Series: Ukrainian Studies
- Author: Lyubka, Andriy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887198408
- Language: English
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Defenders of the Reich: The Luftwaffe’s War Against America’s Bombers
$40.00 Add to cartThe story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm’s desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II.
The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die ca- Author: Forsyth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472862864
- Language: English
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Great Society: A New History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challeng
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0061706434
- Language: English
