History & Military
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The Last of the Old Breed: An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War II
$30.00 Add to cartAn oral history of the brutal Pacific Theater in WWII, told by many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans.
During World War II, over 16 million Americans served in the Armed Forces. Today, less than- Author: Davis, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1250429935
- Language: English
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
$32.00 Add to cartIn the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workp… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of American Life
- Author: Barrett, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143122800
- Language: English
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Huntford, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754741
- Language: English
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Canyon of Dreams: Stories from Grand Canyon History
$19.95 Read moreThe Grand Canyon–long recognized as one of North America’s premier natural wonders–has stirred human imagination and creativity, leaving an indelible mark on all who have encountered its spectacular… [more below]
- Author: Lago, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1607813149
- Language: English
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Doom 34
$29.95 Read moreDOOM 34 is the first behind-the-scenes, insider’s recounting of a high-stakes mission that changed the course of modern combat. Code-named “Senior Surprise” and nicknamed “Secret Squirrel,” the missio… [more below]
- Author: Morriss, Trey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093614
- Language: English
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
$24.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced–now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul P… [more below]
- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0807024120
- Language: English
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The Holocaust in American Life
$25.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long — how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not
- Author: Novick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618082328
- Language: English
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany
In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the- Author: Campbell, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0778333396
- Language: English
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This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South
$22.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking recovery of history; the overlooked story of the battles of America’s Revolutionary War that were fought–and won–in the South.
“Incisively and carefully written, splendidly paced, a- Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 059331218X
- Language: English
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The National Road: George Washington and America’s First Highway West
$32.50 Add to cartTimed for America’s 250th anniversary, The National Road is the story of a new republic forging unity through ambition and action, driven by George Washington’s youthful dream to build the nation’s fi… [more below]
- Author: Crytzer, Brady J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1635769493
- Language: English
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No One s Coming
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history.
JULY 2014. Two American medical volunt- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783177
- Language: English
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Fatal Friendship: First Phase: From World War I to II
$19.99 Add to cartRising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign propert
- Author: Rügemer, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 6054923897
- Language: English
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The Sixties
$27.99 Add to cartThe years spanning the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954 to the waning days of the Vietnam War, here taken as the “long decade,” were a fraught and consequential time. They dw
- Author: Emeritus College, Clemson University
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218844653
- Language: English
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
$34.00 Add to cartA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.
“A tour de force … Read it now.” –Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Aboliti- Author: Schrader, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608038
- Language: English
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then return… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336926
- Language: English
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically divers- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0316831565
- Language: English
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The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries
$32.00 Add to cartA clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth.
“Brilliantly written and illuminating.” –Douglas Brinkley, New York- Author: McKean, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1541704169
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons: An International History
$38.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War
How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally c- Author: Holloway, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300229445
- Language: English
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Witches: A History of Witchcraft, Witch-Hunters, and a King’s Obsession: 1562-1735
$29.95 Add to cartA vivid history of witches from the explosion of trials under King James VI to the end of the witch-hunting phenomenon in the early 1700s.
Witches–whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan ea- Author: Veerapen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100583
- Language: English
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Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe
$29.00 Add to cartWas it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?
In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II: In 1944, a team o
- Author: Friedman, Matti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1954118988
- Language: English
