History & Military
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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
$32.00 Add to cartCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history i- Author: Fawcett, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 042523665X
- Language: English
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal P?tain
$21.95 Add to cartA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year
“This is a story not just about P?tain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France i- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 067429937X
- Language: English
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Law in America: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThroughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s great… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Friedman, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972856
- Language: English
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The Great Serpent Mound: An Ancient Ohio Mystery
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Jeffrey Alan John explores the history, theories and fundamental Serpent Mound questions: What culture made it? Why? And when? Thousands of years ago, people in what would become southern Ohio
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: John, Jeffrey Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159700
- Language: English
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Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye
Allan Pinkerton, the world’s most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascin
- Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125847
- Language: English
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The Secret Sacred: Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome
$27.50 Add to cartWith numerous images of artifacts, an illuminating investigation of the clandestine cults of the ancient world.
The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These- Author: Stone, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391099
- Language: English
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Ephedrine and Related Substances
$20.75 Add to cartThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the ori… [more below]
- Author: Chen Schmidt, Kk And Carl F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1178546748
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
$33.99 Add to cartToday, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism–it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the w
- Author: Jackson, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106875
- Language: English
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Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present
$27.00 Add to cartNazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who un
- Author: Berryman, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881800697
- Language: English
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Putin’s Mercenaries, 2013-24: The Wagner Group and Other Russian Pmcs
$21.00 Add to cartThis illustrated study tells the story of the Russian mercenary force led by business tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the mutiny it launched against Putin’s government in 2023.
Conceived by the Kremlin- Series: Elite #265
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 147286624X
- Language: English
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Delaware Behaving Badly: First State, True Crimes
$17.95 Add to cartMurder, scandal, betrayal, and deceit-Delaware has never been as quiet as its size suggests. Delaware Behaving Badly opens the case files of the First State and reveals stories of crime, corruption, a
- Author: Tabler, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992166729
- Language: English
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
$24.00 Add to cartFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism–and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentri… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983890
- Language: English
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
$23.00 Add to cart“A masterpiece” (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children’s experiences in World War II across Russia
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON PO- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0399588760
- Language: English
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
$21.99 Add to cartToday, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our pe… [more below]
- Author: Emmerson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393805
- Language: English
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Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women
$19.95 Add to cartPalestinian women are an essential–often silenced–part of global struggles for freedom. They are at the forefront of the anti-colonial struggle against Israel’s occupation of their lands, as well as
- Author: Collective, Shoal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887441450
- Language: English
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
$31.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668004348
- Language: English
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Cromwell’s Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing
$32.00 Add to cartThe remarkable story of George Downing–savvy soldier, politician, diplomat, spy, and one of the most scandalous figures of his era.
Judged by contemporaries to be a “perfidious rogue,” Sir George Dow- Author: Sewell, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100507
- Language: English
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A Walk Among Heroes
$18.99 Add to cartStep into the heart of history with A Walk Among Heroes, a sweeping tale of courage, sacrifice, and enduring love that transcends generations. This powerful World War II novel takes you on an unforget
- Author: McDevitt, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992459814
- Language: English
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A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
$35.00 Add to cartAn erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics
The city of Moscow stands- Author: Morrison, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0593318455
- Language: English
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History of Puerto Rico: A Captivating Guide to the Ta?nos, Spanish Conquest, American Invasion, and Modern Times
$23.69 Add to cartDiscover the Captivating History of Puerto Rico: From the Ta?no to Today
Long before European explorers arrived, Puerto Rico was home to the Ta?no people. They built villages, farmed the land, and crea
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893583076
- Language: English
