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Remember Me: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartThree months after the Nazi’s marched down the streets of her town in Poland, Marian Kampinski turned fourteen years old. Her childhood destroyed, she spent the rest of her adolescence haunted and hun… [more below]
- Author: Kampinski, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1440121788
- Language: English
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By: Stahr, Walter
Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe New York Times bestseller from one of the most acclaimed biographers–the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years.William Henry Seward was on… [more below]
- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1439121184
- Language: English
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By: McAuliffe, Tom
Nuts!: The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffe
$14.99PaperbackAdd to cartNuts! The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffe
Award winning Author Tom McAuliffe, chronicles General “Nuts!” McAuliffe’s, Siege at Bastogne during WW2’s crucial Battle of the Bulge and his 35+ year
- Author: McAuliffe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986451107
- Language: English
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By: Morris, Richard
Dam Buster
$34.99HardcoverAdd to cartSir Barnes Wallis CBE became a household name after the hit 1954 film The Dam Busters in which Michael Redgrave portrayed a shy, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy. Yet this was a sim… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1474623425
- Language: English
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By: Krystyna Chiger
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartTrue story from the major motion picture “In Darkness,” official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1943, with Lvov’s 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into- Author: Chiger, Krystyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250018986
- Language: English
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By: Simmons, Marc
Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartKit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson’s own guardianship of hi
- Series: Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0826332978
- Language: English
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By: Millner, Lyn
The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartWas Cyrus Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed’s life and those of his followers, the Koreshans, … [more below]
- Author: Millner, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0813064406
- Language: English
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By: Sherow, James E.
The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58HardcoverAdd to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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Forty Years on the Frontier
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThere is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it.—American Historical Review
When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier “the odyssey of a nineteen
- Author: Stuart, Granville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803293208
- Language: English
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By: Adams, Andy
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartJ. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that “if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conceptio… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Adams, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250002
- Language: English
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By: Mailer, Norman
Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery
$20.00PaperbackRead moreIn perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains–and enigmas–in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald–his family… [more below]
- Author: Mailer, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: January 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0345404378
- Language: English
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By: Man, John
Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartA stunning biography of history’s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun
For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0312539398
- Language: English
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By: Nicolson, Nigel
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
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By: Potter, David
Constantine the Emperor
$29.99PaperbackAdd to cartNo Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along … [more below]
- Author: Potter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190231629
- Language: English
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By: Rosen, R. D.
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less
- Author: Rosen, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062297112
- Language: English
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By: Johnson, Paul
Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
$39.95HardcoverAdd to cartFranz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology a… [more below]
- Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
- Author: Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496216911
- Language: English
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By: Enss, Chris
The Trials of Annie Oakley
$31.58PaperbackAdd to cartLong before the silver screen showed the face of Mary Pickford to millions of Americans, Annie Oakley, born as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses on August 13, 1860, had won the right to the title of “America’s
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493063774
- Language: English
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By: Anton, Betina
Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartUnearthing the network that hid the “Angel of Death,” the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades.
In 1985, Betina Anton watched Brazilian authorities apprehend her kinder
- Author: Anton, Betina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1635768829
- Language: English
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By: Cartledge, Paul
Alexander the Great
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe definitive biography of the towering hero of the classical world: a fearless general, the conqueror of the Persians, and the visionary ruler of a vast empire–from one of the world’s foremost scho… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400079195
- Language: English



















