Chronological Period/1900-1919
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
$21.00 Add to cartA delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.
Towards the end o- Author: De Courcy, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250164605
- Language: English
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Lenin on the Train
$25.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and fore
- Author: Merridale, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160146
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$24.00 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Loconte, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 071807923X
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
$49.99 Add to cart“A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time.” –J. Anthony Lukas
“[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 866
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328619
- Language: English
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The First World War
$21.00 Read more“This serious, compact survey of the war’s history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available.” (Los Angeles Times)
Nearly a century has passed since the outbreak of World War I,- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035185
- Language: English
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating…. A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game–at once engaging and tightly argued.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and
- Series: American History
- Author: Lears, Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 08, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060747501
- Language: English
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Devil’s Rooming House: The True Story of America’s Deadliest Female Serial Killer
$19.95 Add to cartThe Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid
- Author: Phelps, M. William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493050125
- Language: English
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The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and Wwi’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
$27.00 Add to cartThe Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it n… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128335
- Language: English
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Vanquished
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Tomlinson Book Prize
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I–conflicts that wou- Author: Gerwarth, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537186
- Language: English
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No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
$18.99 Add to cartThe “absorbing and powerful” (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war b… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672755
- Language: English
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World War 1: A Captivating Guide to the First World War, Including Battle Stories from the Eastern and Western Front and How the Tr
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of World War 1
The First World War was one of the most devastating conflicts in our history. The death toll was like nothing experienced before, and it is estimated that
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481732
- Language: English
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The Real Winnie: A One-Of-A-Kind Bear
$12.95 Add to cartThe story of Winnie, the real Canadian bear that captured the heart of Christopher, son of A.A. Milne, is told against the backdrop of the First World War.
- Author: Shushkewich, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1896219896
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, The Mystery of the Aleph is Amir D. Aczel’s compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
From the Pythag- Series: Mathematics, the Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity
- Author: Aczel, Amir D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0743422996
- Language: English
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
$18.99 Add to cartA national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.When we think o… [more below]
- Author: Kolata, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203984
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That: Introduction by Miranda Seymour
$30.00 Add to cartOn the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.
Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1101907983
- Language: English
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Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
$20.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice in Greenland. The flames ravaged pristine wilderness a… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0878425446
- Language: English
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The War to End All Wars: World War I
$14.99 Add to cartNonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of m
- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0544021711
- Language: English
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Geronimo: Twenty-Three Years as a Prisoner of War
$22.95 Add to cartWhen Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geronimo: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into ho
- Author: Farmer, W. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074407
- Language: English
