History & Military
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
$19.00 Add to cartIn an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment-an extraordina
- Author: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 1400077222
- Language: English
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Omaha Beach
$21.95 Add to cartBalkoski’s depiction of ‘Bloody Omaha’ is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. — John Hillen, New York Post
- Author: Balkoski, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0811733769
- Language: English
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Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
$18.99 Add to cart“Fascinating.” — The Wall Street Journal
“An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers Weekly
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a “real-life Game of Thrones“ (New York Time
- Author: Gabriele, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0063336715
- Language: English
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The Vanishing Sea: The Tale of How the Aral Sea Became the Aral Desert
$18.99 Add to cartThis artful and thought-provoking picture book shares the little-known story of the disappearance of the Aral Sea–and the loss of livelihood and biodiversity as fishing villages and ships were left s… [more below]
- Author: Mirtalipova, Dinara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 179722459X
- Language: English
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The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizations
$18.00 Add to cartDrawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians.
The Phoenicians is a f- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Jigoulov, Vadim S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1789149444
- Language: English
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A Scandal in K?nigsberg
$27.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by TheTimes (London)
As told by one of our greatest historians, the story of the scandal that took down two Lutheran preachers in the heart of nineteenth-century Prussia-- Author: Clark, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217060948
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of Am
$42.00 Add to cartSara Vladic, New York Times bestselling author of Indianapolis, reveals the gripping, untold history of the United States under attack during World War II and the improbable patriots who stepped up to
- Author: Vladic, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321041
- Language: English
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence
$32.99 Read moreThomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence “an expression of the American mind.” Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared p… [more below]
- Author: Spalding, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774878
- Language: English
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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
$22.00 Add to cartThe harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job–with deadly results
A quarter-century ago, Bost… [more below]- Author: Swidey, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0307886735
- Language: English
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Land Between the Rivers
$22.00 Add to cartThe epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was the birthplace of civilization and remains today the essential crossroads between East and West
At the st
- Author: Bull, Bartle Bull
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165419
- Language: English
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The Navigator’s Letter: The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them Together
$32.50 Add to cartThe Navigator’s Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love.
On- Author: Dondi, Jan Cress
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1454956356
- Language: English
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Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. II
$40.00 Add to cartIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on s… [more below]
- Series: Myth of the Machine #2
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 1974
- ISBN10: 0156716100
- Language: English
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Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror
$35.00 Add to cartAn original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror–the greatest case of “we told you so” in modern political history.
Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble- Author: Varon, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827682
- Language: English
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The Mill Girls: The Newfoundland Women Who Transformed Canada’s Industrial Heartland
$27.95 Add to cartJoin Heather Barrett on an extraordinary journey as she uncovers the mystery of the Mill Girls. Using humour, drama, and heartwarming tales, their story illuminates the 1940’s exodus of young single w
- Author: Barrett, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1989417612
- Language: English
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The sexes throughout nature
$25.16 Add to cartThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forg… [more below]
- Author: Brown Blackwell, Antoinette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 9353979277
- Language: English
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Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker
$35.00 Add to cartThe fascinating, colorful life of Margaret Beaufort, who survived the Wars of the Roses to become mother of the Tudor dynasty.
Born into a century of conflict, Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of the D- Author: Johnson, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100705
- Language: English
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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
$21.00 Add to cartThe first in a new “authoritative, shocking” (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from … [more below]
- Author: Carr, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668024365
- Language: English
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Matt’s St. Louis Food Story
$29.95 Read more- Author: Sorrell, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 168106619X
- Language: English
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
$34.95 Add to cartLieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Robert E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368417
- Language: English
