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German Generals Talk
$18.99 Add to cartThe German Generals who survived Hitler’s Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and
- Author: Hart, Basil H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0688060129
- Language: English
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The Construction of Social Reality
$20.00 Add to cartThis short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social mean… [more below]
- Author: Searle, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684831791
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending–a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle ?poque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0525658777
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Biography
$60.00 Add to cartOne of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 812
- Publish Date: June 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0521003873
- Language: English
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The Battle for the Falklands
$28.99 Add to cartMust be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands. James M. Gavin
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393301982
- Language: English
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We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
$10.99 Add to cartEach year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant’s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Onc… [more below]
- Author: Moore, General Ha
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0345472640
- Language: English
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “superb [and] intensely readable” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it–from… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307888770
- Language: English
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The Korean War
$21.99 Add to cartIn December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations … [more below]
- Author: Ridgway, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0306802678
- Language: English
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Locke: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJohn Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #84
- Author: Dunn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803948
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$26.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War II. His fear was shared by many. The North Atlantic … [more below]
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190905832
- Language: English
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Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
$25.99 Add to cartAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had … [more below]
- Author: Pedersen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190619120
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945
$16.99 Add to cart“Otto Friedrich’s powerful portrayal of Auschwitz is both an extraordinary reminder of the human capacity for evil and an eloquent message to humanity never to let such things happen again.” –Arthur
- Author: Friedrich, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 19 1994
- ISBN10: 0060976403
- Language: English
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
$50.00 Read moreA fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world
From the chaos of the First Wor- Author: Taylor, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253656
- Language: English
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Hiding in Plain Sight: How a Jewish Girl Survived Europe’s Heart of Darkness
$20.00 Read moreAn extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic.
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devot
- Author: Van Os, Pieter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363045
- Language: English
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Vigilance: A Story of Sheriff Watson
$12.99 Add to cartIt is 1884, widower Alexander “Sandy” Watson is enjoying time at home with his seven children when he is alerted of a murder in the nearby town of Sarasota. As sheriff of this Florida frontier land, h
- Author: Knies, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1662920229
- Language: English
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Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
$36.95 Add to cartIn Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe.
In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers- Author: Colbourn, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766023
- Language: English
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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, 2006-2021
$60.00 Add to cartAdrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photo… [more below]
- Author: Gordon Gill Architecture
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1954081359
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured
- Author: Van Iperen, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0063119331
- Language: English
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White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler
$32.00 Add to cartThey were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitor… [more below]
- Author: Dunkel, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0306922185
- Language: English
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Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
$19.95 Add to cartFrom sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will be
In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to- Author: Smith-Ruiu, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210519
- Language: English
