History & Military
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
$22.00 Add to cart“Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is he
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880896
- Language: English
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
$22.99 Add to cartA “thrilling” (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar
The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, ex
- Author: Price, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601114
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
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- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103051
- Language: English
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty–“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)
The first Pl- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124927
- Language: English
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
$16.99 Add to cartThis riveting paperback explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, and shines a piercing light on perceptions of powerful women today.
Female rulers are a rare- Author: Cooney, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 142622088X
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$18.99 Add to cartIn SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undispute
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1631492225
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
$17.95 Add to cartIn Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and
- Author: Newitz, Annalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882454
- Language: English
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – From the author of Empire of Pain–a stunning, intricate narrative about a notoriou… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0307279286
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$22.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
$20.00 Add to cartThe powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, wh- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250237092
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$22.99 Read moreAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0316418528
- Language: English
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
$23.99 Add to cartThe landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s elo- Author: Brown, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0805086846
- Language: English
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)–an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March–from the author of Bl
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07, 2002
- ISBN10: 038549565X
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$0.00 Read moreThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 1568585985
- Language: English
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Cuba 1959: Novela. Ficcion Historica
$24.02 Add to cartCUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro’s takeover of the island on January
- Author: Rivero, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 1481779559
- Language: Spanish
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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
$20.00 Read moreAn unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers.
In combating terror, America can no longe- Author: Couch, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339394
- Language: English
