General History
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Passage to Ararat
$23.99 Add to cartIn Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exile
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Arlen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530122
- Language: English
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
$18.99 Add to cartAs the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning… Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316511579
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$18.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
$22.99 Add to cartCalled “fast-paced” (Kirkus Reviews) and “highly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly), this is the behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace.
The story of Versailles is one of high historic- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603460
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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The Dillinger Days
$24.99 Add to cartFor thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, in… [more below]
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806266
- Language: English
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The Jewish Women of Ravensbr?k Concentration Camp
$24.95 Add to cartRavensbr?k was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal inject… [more below]
- Author: Saidel, Rochelle G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0299198642
- Language: English
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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
$24.95 Add to cartAn English translation of Chapa’s Historia de Nuevo Le, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Winner, Presidio La Bah僘 Award, Sons of the Republic- Author: Chapa, Juan Bautista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0292717954
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590966
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowden, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198706154
- Language: English
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A History of the Vikings
$25.99 Add to cart“An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.”– Scandinavian Studies
The subject o- Author: Jones, Gwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: July 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801341
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
$20.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227915
- Language: English
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
$24.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered–his journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to di… [more below]
- Author: Bawlf, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004596
- Language: English
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War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Revised and Updated
$24.00 Add to cart“Remarkable…breathtaking in its scope and historical precision, this is highly recommended volume for both publivc and academic libraries.–Library Journal.
- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140245642
- Language: English
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Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy
$18.99 Add to cart“A dramatic tale. . . . Sherry brings the pirates vividly to life with his rousing telling of their daring cruises and outrageous feats. . . . I heartily recommend Raiders and Rebels to anyone who enj
- Author: Sherry, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061572845
- Language: English
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Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz explores the reality behind the bestselling fiction she writes (as Elizabeth Peters) and casts a dazzling light on a remarkable civilization.
Afascinating chro
- Author: Mertz, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0061252778
- Language: English
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For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes “the most important book ever written about American intelligence.”–David Kahn, author of The Codebreake… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0060921781
- Language: English
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The Case for Germany.: A Study of Modern Germany.
$19.99 Add to cartThis rare 1939 treatise gives the view of National-Socialist Germany that the author, a Scottish scholar, developed during his time inside Hitler’s Third Reich. Far from being the sort of hateful diat
- Author: Laurie, Arthur Pillans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1777543649
- Language: English
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The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
$20.00 Add to cartBiographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the “Glass Wall” between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.
Few countries have suffered more- Author: Egremont, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863163
- Language: English
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Guide to the Lakes
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0198848099
- Language: English
