Cultural Region/Western Europe
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Operation Pedestal 1942: The Battle for Malta’s Lifeline
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating story of a key turning point in the War in the Mediterranean, as the island of Malta was thrown a vital lifeline.
Since 1940, the island of Malta had been a thorn in the Axis’ side. It- Series: Campaign #394
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472855671
- Language: English
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The History of Western Art (Art Essentials)
$16.95 Read moreAcknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest addition to the Art Essentials series invites the reader to expe
- Series: Art Essentials #17
- Author: Benton, Janetta Rebold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0500296650
- Language: English
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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The Surgeon’s Mate
$15.95 Read moreJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #7
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308200
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAntisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate.
This Very Short Introduction untangles the hi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724837
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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The Song at the Scaffold
$18.95 Read moreJuly 17, 1794: French Revolutionaries are out to crush the Catholic Church in their nation, and the latest targets of their brutality are the Carmelites of the convent of Compi?ne. Sentenced to death … [more below]
- Author: Von Le Fort, Gertrud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1618904027
- Language: English
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Europe by Train
$24.99 Read moreTake to the rails and have a European adventure with this inspiring and practical guidebook.
Thanks to Europe’s ever-expanding and improving rail network, there’s never been a better time to explore t- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0241616026
- Language: English
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Munich Signature
$18.99 Add to cartOpening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central … [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #3
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 141430109X
- Language: English
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She Came to Stay
$18.95 Add to cartSet in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Fran?ise cons… [more below]
- Author: Beauvoir, Simone De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318842
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Fascism
$18.00 Read moreWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
$16.95 Add to cartIntimate insights from the saint to whom Our Lord gave the Sacred Heart revelations. Includes Our Lord’s own words to her and tells how she sought out suffering for the love for God. A very famous bo… [more below]
- Author: Alacoque, Margaret Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0895552957
- Language: English
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Nice Snowing You!
$6.99 Read moreHoping to escape the cold in his backyard, Sparky chomps on his magic bone–only to find himself in snowy Zermatt, Switzerland. He befriends Lena, a Saint Bernard rescue dog with a terrible sense of d… [more below]
- Series: Magic Bone #04
- Author: Krulik, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0448464462
- Language: English
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Built to Last
$36.99 Add to cartThis new book–inspired by three classic, award-winning books–reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created. Macaulay has revised text… [more below]
- Author: Macaulay, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0547342403
- Language: English
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Heidi
$9.99 Add to cartWhen Heidi’s parents die and she can no longer live with her aunt, she must stay with her ill-tempered grandfather who lives alone in the Swiss Alps. The townspeople worry that such a young girl has b… [more below]
- Series: Children’s Signature Classics
- Author: Spyri, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1454945664
- Language: English
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The Three Musketeers
$28.00 Read moreDumas’s most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventur… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0375406573
- Language: English
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1481449389
- Language: English
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This Dark Endeavor
$12.99 Read moreBravery, danger, and intense passion. How does obsession begin?
Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adv- Series: Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein #01
- Author: Oppel, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1442403160
- Language: English
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Hans Brinker, Or, the Silver Skates
$17.95 Add to cartHans Brinker or The Silver Skates was published in 1865 and received more reviews than any other children’s book that year. Today it continues to delight countless readers with its story of a virtuous… [more below]
- Series: Aladdin Classics
- Author: Dodge, Mary Mapes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0689849095
- Language: English
