Historical
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Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
$22.99 Add to cart“Never give in!” Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.” What most people don’t know is that when he said this he w… [more below]
- Author: Langworth, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1586489577
- Language: English
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Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood
$19.95 Add to cartThe evocation of memory is wrought with emotional and historical significance in this distinctive holocaust memoir. With lyrical prose and remarkable candor, Helena Ganor narrates her story through a
- Series: Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust
- Author: Ganor, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0815608691
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition
$24.95 Add to cartPrinter and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age o
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0812219295
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, th
- Author: Tobin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284763
- Language: English
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Mary Queen of Scots
$20.00 Add to cart“A book that will leave few readers unmoved.”-San Francisco Chronicle
She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nat… [more below]- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 038531129X
- Language: English
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space
$26.00 Add to cartThe basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene Cernan was a unique American- Author: Cernan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312263511
- Language: English
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
$26.00 Add to cartAn insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innoc- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Samuels, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300254008
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Add to cartEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
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Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
$19.95 Add to cartAs the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Eisen’s memoir, “Pillar of Salt” breaks the down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From e… [more below]
- Author: Salton Eisen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1942134827
- Language: English
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No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda
$19.95 Add to cartDuring 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda’s descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neig
- Author: Seminega, Tharcisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1937188035
- Language: English
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Black Bart: Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California’s Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him
$12.95 Add to cartCalifornia Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the infamous stagecoach robber Black Bart. For over eight years the mysterious… [more below]
- Author: Hoeper, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1884995055
- Language: English
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Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
$12.00 Add to cartInitially published on the twentieth anniversary of his death, this candid book reveals new information on the breakup of the Beatles, fellow musicians such as Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Lennon… [more below]
- Author: Wenner, Jann S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: December 17 2012
- ISBN10: 185984376X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
$12.95 Add to cartThis edition of the original classic work, includes an index that will enable you to easily search for the names, places and topics as you discover the brilliance and determination of this incredible … [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1722502266
- Language: English
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- Language: English
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Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey Into the Unknown
$22.00 Add to cart“An exciting insider’s look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA’s internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls” by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly).
Gordon “Gordo” C- Author: Cooper, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1504054245
- Language: English
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Patrick Henry
$32.99 Add to cart“A brilliant orator, a firebrand for freedom and individual rights, Henry stands as an American luminary, and Kukla’s magisterial biography shines the glow of achievement on subject and author alike” … [more below]
- Author: Kukla, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1439190828
- Language: English
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Revolution Road Trip: Our Two Wild and World-Changing Weeks behind the Iron Curtain
$25.99 Add to cartKelly Kimball, Trish Whitcomb, Andrew Frank, and Barry Fadem met as political consultants, each passionate about the power and potential of democracy throughout the world. A trip to Eastern Europe in
- Author: Kimball, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1544529066
- Language: English
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Steel Soldier: Guadalcanal Odyssey
$39.95 Add to cartMy father, the most influential person in my life, passed away on March 20, 2008. As an intimate gift to his children, he wrote and illustrated his life story.
In the end, it took him eight years to co
- Author: Messina, James J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638905
- Language: English
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The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist Edition
$38.95 Add to cartFor years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper’s naturalist’s edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram’s pioneering survey. Complete
- Author: Bartram, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820320277
- Language: English
