History & Military
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Lincoln’s Road to War: A Day-By-Day Account of the First 60 Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency
$29.95 Add to cartFollow Lincoln’s day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of t… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1493092022
- Language: English
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The Lost Termini of Berlin: A Biography of the Railway Stations That Shaped the German Capital
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the birth of Berlin’s railway network to the time when the bombs of the Second World War and the concrete slabs of the Wall changed the city forever, the Prussian and later German capital counte
- Author: Nieuwland, Ilja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 04 2024
- ISBN10: 3111381218
- Language: English
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The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody’s Ever Heard of
$19.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 2014, a strange thing happened to one of the largest freshwater bodies on the planet: Lake Erie’s western shore turned bright green with toxic algae that could have killed 400,000 Ohi
- Author: Wensink, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270106
- Language: English
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Israel In Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism
$10.99 Add to cartIn the wake of the Hamas attack of October 7 and the Israeli response, historian and current affairs commentator Yakov Rabkin brings together his writings that shed light on the violence in Palestine
- Author: Rabkin, Yakov M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991655293
- Language: English
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
$20.00 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024
One of the Washington Post‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Finalist for the Zora Awar- Author: Robertson, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 125039757X
- Language: English
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Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the MSNBC Senior National and Political Correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, a gripping and revelatory account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, which he cov
- Author: Soboroff, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0063467968
- Language: English
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III): From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam
$19.99 Add to cartRespected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the third volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, mem
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1595554289
- Language: English
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Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War II
$42.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and Enigma: the Battle for the Code, the story of unsung American heroism in World War II’s maritime epic in the Arctic.
It is 1941 and Ru- Author: Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1639369015
- Language: English
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Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital
$24.00 Add to cartNelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous … [more below]
- Author: Lankford, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003107
- Language: English
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These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future
$29.95 Add to cartEvoking the tumultuous history of the relationship between Britain and Ireland, These Divided Isles investigates the complexities of culture and colonization to ask what the future holds for both coun… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897100057
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman: The Complete Annotated Edition
$39.95 Add to cartA titan among Civil War military geniuses gives an unvarnished account of his career, presented for the first time in a definitive annotated edition, marking the 150th anniversary of the original publ
- Author: Sherman, William T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0674988353
- Language: English
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The Bowery
$24.99 Add to cartThe Bowery is New York City’s oldest street. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it was a Native American footpath, Dutch wagon road, and the triumphal march route as Washingto
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Mulkins, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 146716206X
- Language: English
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
$19.99 Read moreExplore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped history.
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical sc- Author: Gazur, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1789297893
- Language: English
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The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
$23.99 Add to cartWriting in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was “incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the comb
- Author: Lloyd, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116811
- Language: English
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
$35.00 Add to cartWhen eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy da
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 146968683X
- Language: English
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Fighting Fifteen: The Navy’s Top Ace and the Deadliest Hellcat Squadron of the Pacific War
$35.00 Add to cartThe inspiring, action-packed tale of VF-15, the elite group of U.S. Navy “top gun” pilots that destroyed more enemy planes than any other Pacific War squadron.
David McCampbell ended his tour of duty- Author: Moore, Stephen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593475860
- Language: English
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Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of European Civilization
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic history of Europe’s rich Islamic heritage, exploring the endless complexities of this centuries-long relationship.
Few readers are aware how much Europe owes to its Islamic heritage; this boo- Author: Drayson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897100019
- Language: English
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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West
$29.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen–who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin–risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.
After Hitler’s- Author: Pearson, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368582
- Language: English
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Secret Oklahoma: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Kirouac, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066157
- Language: English
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Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of the roots of China and Mongolia’s historic rivalry–and why it matters today.
The Great Wall of China–stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 163936997X
- Language: English
