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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Apollo 13 comes the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon.
Without Gemini, there would be no Apol- Author: Kluger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250323002
- Language: English
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
$18.00 Add to cartThis disturbing expos? describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Euro… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Paul L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1633884783
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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A Spoonful of Sugar: The Story of the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland
$29.95 Add to cartTake a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation, family legacy, and Disney magic. A Spoonful of Sugar tells the fascinating story of … [more below]
- Author: Hall, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992564501
- Language: English
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Postwar Europe: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its economies severely damaged and millions of its peo- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bessel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0198851669
- Language: English
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Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990
$16.95 Add to cartSpanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel’s evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia’s leaders to… [more below]
- Author: Havel, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 02 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738118
- Language: English
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Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
$32.99 Add to cartTELEGRAPH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from c- Author: Taylor, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1804549991
- Language: English
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
$21.99 Add to cartToday, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our pe… [more below]
- Author: Emmerson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393805
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century.
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown tog- Author: Vinen, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668064847
- Language: English
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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy
$35.00 Add to cartFor fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it
On August 20, 1940, Leon T- Author: Ireland, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593187105
- Language: English
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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
$29.95 Add to cartAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored.
Born to a… [more below]
- Author: Rooney, Padraig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566295
- Language: English
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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
$40.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE – An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom
In th- Author: Burke, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0525659439
- Language: English
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The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
$20.00 Add to cartSince the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world’s war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior’s Honor is a report and a reflection on what
- Author: Ignatieff, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0805055193
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$18.99 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely hero
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371413
- Language: English
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The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
$19.95 Add to cart“A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one.”–Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.
A suspenseful, a- Author: Wunsch, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402135
- Language: English
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartA power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Gal?pagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder–a true story of utopia gone wrong from New Yo… [more below]
- Author: Kahler, Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0451498666
- Language: English
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$20.00 Add to cart“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”–The Washington Post
A thrillin- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728114
- Language: English
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Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World
$35.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, a peaceful world was an imaginable goal. The still-young United Nations was widely respected and regarded as humankind’s best hope for resolving global conflicts. African and Asian
- Author: Myint-U, Thant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051973
- Language: English
