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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
$20.00 Add to cartPaul Preston is the world’s foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisc… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329879
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Add to cartThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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Mig-21 “Fishbed”: Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966-68
$23.00 Read moreUsing archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istvç–£ Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and
- Series: Dogfight #8
- Author: Toperczer, István
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857569
- Language: English
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F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963-73
$23.00 Read moreWith specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the ‘last of the gunfighters’, as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG t
- Series: Dogfight #7
- Author: Davies, Peter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857542
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler
$18.95 Add to cartSophie Scholl and her brother Hans were handsome, bright university students in 1942 Germany. As members of the Hitler Youth, they had once been enthusiastic supporters of the German renewal promised
- Author: Hanser, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1586175572
- Language: English
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the politic
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932938
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of Patton a Soldier’s Date with Destiny: Could World War II’s Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
$27.99 Read more“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — General George S. Patton
It is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, P
- Author: Orlando, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1630061751
- Language: English
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$27.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbç–£, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1635422809
- Language: English
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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
$32.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
“[Mauceri’s] writing is mo- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300233701
- Language: English
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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
$83.25 Read moreA sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy–with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural hist- Author: Sayer, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 069118545X
- Language: English
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Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1: Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard
$37.50 Read moreArtificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.
Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor maga… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216095
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$22.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
$20.00 Read moreAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0345803027
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
$25.00 Add to cartAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0679720197
- Language: English
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To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
$19.95 Read more“History on an epic scale-sweeping, provocative, and unsparing in its judgment.” –Andrew Bacevich, author of After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
An immensely readable history,- Author: McCoy, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599212
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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Modern Watercolor: A Playful and Contemporary Exploration of Watercolor Painting
$19.99 Read moreModern Watercolor provides a colorful and fun approach to working with watercolor! Use the easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful, colorful artwork featured throughout the book to create dynamic le… [more below]
- Series: Modern
- Author: Van Leuven, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1633223566
- Language: English
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Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II
$22.00 Read moreA classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United S… [more below]
- Author: Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314859
- Language: English
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Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters
$45.00 Read morePrincess Eugenia (Ena) of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice (Bee) of Saxe Coburg, granddaughters of Queen Victoria of England, married into the Spanish royal family.
In 1906, Ena became the consort of K… [more below]
- Author: de Sagrera, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 178155854X
- Language: English
