Potomac Books
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Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism
$24.95 Add to cartIn a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism–the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Bid… [more below]
- Author: Biddle, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124411
- Language: English
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Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China
$36.95 Add to cart2023 Best Book Awards Winner in History sponsored by American Book Fest
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the ch
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in History- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125841
- Language: English
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Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
$24.95 Add to cartThe most successful film franchise of all time, Star Wars thrillingly depicts an epic multigenerational conflict fought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But the Star Wars saga has as much to… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123601
- Language: English
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A History of Air Warfare
$39.95 Add to cart***Selected for the 2010 Chief of the United States Air Force’s Reading List***This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts o… [more below]
- Author: Olsen, John Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 522
- Publish Date: January 31 2010
- ISBN10: 1597974331
- Language: English
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Medal of Honor: One Man’s Journey from Poverty and Prejudice
$19.95 Add to cartHalf-Hispanic, half-Yaqui Indian, and an orphan, Roy Benavidez fought his way out of poverty and bigotry to serve with the U.S. Army’s elite–the Airborne and the Special Forces. Seriously wounded in … [more below]
- Series: Memories of War
- Author: Benavidez, Roy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886924
- Language: English
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Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State
$34.95 Add to cartThe ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books… [more below]
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640126066
- Language: English
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Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon
$34.95 Add to cartOn December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviatio… [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640122680
- Language: English
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Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines
$34.95 Add to cartAlmost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124756
- Language: English
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Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
$36.95 Add to cartIn the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that foll… [more below]
- Author: Silber, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125485
- Language: English
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Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America
$21.95 Add to cartBourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminates the development of the United States as a nation, from conquer… [more below]
- Author: Haara, Brian F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124276
- Language: English
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Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy
$29.95 Add to cartSelected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List, Assignment: Pentagon takes the reader on an insider’s tour of the Pentagon, describing how the headquarters for the world’s largest multin… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Maj Gen Perry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123563
- Language: English
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Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas–Public Advocate and Conservation Champion
$29.95 Add to cart2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award First Honorable Mention
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four wives, as a- Author: McKeown, M. Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640123008
- Language: English
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Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
$24.95 Add to cart“A unique, compelling read.”–Midwest Book Review
Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America’s first spies, said, “Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being
- Author: Olson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971537
- Language: English
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Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story
$34.95 Add to cartMany myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman’s critic
- Author: Giangreco, D. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640120734
- Language: English
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
$49.95 Add to cart“Shattered Sword [is] a necessary read for anyone interested in the Pacific War.”–NYMAS Review
Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the “Best Book in U.S. Naval History”
- Author: Parshall, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574889230
- Language: English
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At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s Great Dams
$34.95 Add to cartThere are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as “major.” Nearly all of this infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to 1972,… [more below]
- Author: Palumbi, Anthony R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124934
- Language: English
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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
$21.95 Add to cartShortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth “Bessie” Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williams
- Author: Minnick, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 164012361X
- Language: English
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War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
$24.95 Add to cart“The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog’s disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with.” With these word
- Author: Taber, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1574885553
- Language: English
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Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis
$24.95 Add to cartJourney “inside the numbers” for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn’t diagram plays or
- Author: Oliver, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 1574886886
- Language: English
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
$34.95 Add to cart“Shattered Sword [is] a necessary read for anyone interested in the Pacific War.”–NYMAS Review
Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the “Best Book in U.S. Naval History”
- Author: Parshall, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889249
- Language: English
