Historical
-
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
$15.99 Add to cartAn acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human–both the good and the evil within us.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikize… [more below]
- Author: Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: April 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446591
- Language: English
-
Biography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, L… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199533547
- Language: English
-
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of American (Ameri)CA
$18.99 Add to cartThe author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries wit… [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0156972158
- Language: English
-
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
$10.99 Add to cartGladys Malvern uses her celebrated talent for prose to share the stories of Henry VIII’s wives with immense personality and captivating drama.
Henry VIII was married to six women during his reign as- Author: Malvern, Gladys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1504030214
- Language: English
-
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
$16.95 Add to cartUsing historical documents and translated by R?ine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan’s contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life… [more below]
- Author: Pernoud, Regine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0812812603
- Language: English
-
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
$23.99 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (New York Times). This book is highly recommended for students and read… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618711694
- Language: English
-
In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
$20.99 Add to cartThe true story behind the legend of Dracula – a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker’s recently discov
- Author: McNally, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0395657830
- Language: English
-
The Dark Side of Camelot
$23.99 Add to cartA monumental work of investigative journalism from one of the greatest reporters in American history, revealing the Kennedy White House as never before.
In this widely acclaimed and bestselling book,… [more below]- Author: Hersh, Seymour M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0316360678
- Language: English
-
Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
$27.00 Read moreA riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe–from the author of Hitler: Ascent
“Skillfully conceived and u- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1101872063
- Language: English
-
James A. Garfield: Letting His Light Shine
$16.95 Add to cartJames A. Garfield is usually cast aside as a minor president from the late nineteenth century, one of the cold, bearded statues that fill parks across the country. However, Garfield stood out from his
- Author: McArthur, John D., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1644588382
- Language: English
-
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
$16.95 Add to cartViolet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on… [more below]
- Author: Jessop, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1574091840
- Language: English
-
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
$18.95 Read moreWhat happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all.
What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy- Author: Sidebottom, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546857
- Language: English
-
Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95 Add to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
-
General James Longstreet
$21.00 Add to cartGeneral James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the sur… [more below]
- Author: Wert, Jeffry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671892878
- Language: English
-
The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Josephine
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-se… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2005
- ISBN10: 0802142028
- Language: English
-
Rooster
$15.00 Add to cartThe True Story Behind True Grit
Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real “Rooster” Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself. Now, in this page-turning a
- Author: Cogburn, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0758274947
- Language: English
-
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.99 Add to cartThis is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to “pass” in the forb… [more below]
- Series: Galaxy Book #0772
- Author: Tec, Nechama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0195035003
- Language: English
-
Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield
$28.99 Add to cartFor many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in the 1700s. While this is true, it is only part of the
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 1581821654
- Language: English
-
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and R… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076781
- Language: English
-
The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero
$29.95 Read moreFrom his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through… [more below]
- Author: Calbreath, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363246
- Language: English
