Historical
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
$18.00 Add to cartAmid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library #0000
- Author: Hurst, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 067974830X
- Language: English
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
$20.00 Read moreOne of the New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2016
“Heartachingly relevant…the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both fi
One of NPR’s 10 Best Books of 2016- Author: Cook, Blanche Wiesen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109626
- Language: English
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Lives of the Caesars
$13.95 Add to cartThe Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domit… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199537569
- Language: English
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao
$25.00 Add to cart“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”–Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University
From 1954 until Mao Zedong’s death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Z… [more below]- Author: Zhi-Sui, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679764437
- Language: English
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The Bolivian Diary
$19.95 Read moreThe last diary of revolutionary Che Guevara with entries up until two days before his murder.
This new edition of Che Guevara’s diary of the last year of his life describes Che’s efforts to launch a g- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1644210746
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95 Add to cartThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also h
- Author: Hughes-Hallett, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0062940139
- Language: English
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La Llamada
$27.95 Read more- Author: Guerriero, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 8433922068
- Language: Spanish
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In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian
$29.95 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have gro… [more below]
- Author: Rappaport, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362746
- Language: English
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The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto – 75th Anniversary Edition
$16.99 Read moreThe first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to- Author: Berg, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1786073404
- Language: English
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
$30.00 Read moreOn the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues t- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141265
- Language: English
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
$40.00 Read moreThis definitive biography of one of history’s most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world — and their rise and fall from power.
Alexander the Great’s conquests… [more below]- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 154164669X
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan Y El Inicio del Mundo Moderno
$30.95 Read moreThe startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more … [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 8417743626
- Language: Spanish
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Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara
$41.67 Read moreA lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America
Ellen O’Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who,- Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora #6
- Author: Groarke, Vona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1479817511
- Language: English
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Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and Western Histories in Transition
$34.95 Read moreThis is the first biography of Dale L. Morgan, preeminent Western historian of the fur trade, historic trails, and the Latter Day Saint movement. The book explores how, despite personal struggles, Mo
- Author: Saunders, Richard L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1647691214
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship
$29.95 Read moreTells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens’ relationship with his sister-in-law, his ‘best and truest friend’ Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to li… [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1526166089
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary
$17.95 Add to cartCalamity Jane follows the life of Martha Jane Cannary, a nineteenth-century woman who went from penniless orphan to one of the most famous figures of the American West. In an era when women had few op… [more below]
- Author: Herda, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493031945
- Language: English
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95 Read moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- Language: English
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Sidney Reilly: Master Spy
$26.00 Read moreA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage
“Mr. Morris’s dogged research . . . lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an often-cryptic figure.”–Dian- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Morris, Benny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300248261
- Language: English
