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Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942-43
$45.00 Read moreRobert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel’s Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.
The war in the North Afric- Author: Forczyk, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859847
- Language: English
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The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness
$14.95 Read moreFlorence Hartley’s insightful etiquette guide was first published in 1860, and yet her witty and useful advice on behaving like a lady often still rings true down the ages
What should you do if you not
- Author: Hartley, Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915421
- Language: English
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The Essential Kierkegaard
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive anthology of Kierkegaard’s writings that offers an unmatched introduction to one of the most original and influential modern philosophers
This is the most comprehensive anthology of S- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 691254060
- Language: English
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The Destruction of the Imperial Army: Volume 1 – The Opening Engagements of the Franco-German War 1870-71
$79.95 Read moreThis volume is the most comprehensive account of the defeat of the French Imperial Army published in the last 100 years. It includes a detailed order of battles and the casualty returns for all major … [more below]
- Series: From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914
- Author: Bird, Grenville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1915113814
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany–from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in- Author: Kater, Michael H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259247
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgement
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552460
- Language: English
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.” —New Yorker
Now in paperback with a new epilogue
In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0062802275
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
$32.00 Read moreIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary- Author: Thompson, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1455565156
- Language: English
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The Ghost Tattoo
$28.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HOLOCAUST MEMOIR
A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of a family coming to terms with its- Author: Bernard, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542586
- Language: English
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899
$29.95 Read more“It is interesting to watch how the expressions change as you progress through the book, from optimistic in the beginning, to almost hopeless by the end… The pictures alone will offer hours of view
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1550464531
- Language: English
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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
$0.00 Read moreIan Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures–a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur–who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule,… [more below]
- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593296648
- Language: English
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Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
$16.95 Read moreIt is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire’s historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too
- Author: Thompson, Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0863564828
- Language: English
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Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Leder- Author: Lederman, Marsha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0771049382
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-Shek, China, 1887-1975
$40.00 Read moreAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) le- Author: Pantsov, Alexander V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260202
- Language: English
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Zwingli the Pastor: A Life in Conflict
$26.99 Read moreThe Reformer at war
In Zwingli the Pastor, Stephen Brett Eccher tells the story of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), embattled pastor and reformer. Zwingli’s ministry in Zurich was characterized by confli… [more below]- Author: Eccher, Stephen Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1683597354
- Language: English
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Maus I: Relato de Un Sobreviviente. Mi Padre Sangra Historia / Maus I: A Survivo R’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
$17.95 Add to cartGanadora del Premio Pulitzer 1992
Maus nos cuenta la historia de Vladek Spiegelman, un jud?o superviviente del Holocausto, y de su hijo, un historietista que intenta reconciliarse con su padre, con l- Series: Maus. Relato de Un Superviviente
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 8418897007
- Language: Spanish
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Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy
$19.95 Add to cartEssential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.
- Author: Davis, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642594628
- Language: English
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The Pope’s Cabinet: Pius XII’s Secret War for Saving Jews
$24.95 Read moreFor the first time since World War II, the newly opened archives of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State reveal the crucial role Pius XII and the Holy See played in trying to save Jews from capture and
- Author: Ickx, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1644138581
- Language: English
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How to Read Modern Buildings: A Crash Course in Architecture of the Modern Era
$18.95 Add to cartSmall enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this is the ultimate field guide to understanding modern architecture.
This eighth entry in Rizzoli’s popular How to Read..- Series: How to Read…
- Author: Jones, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0789332728
- Language: English
