History & Military
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Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World
$29.99 Read moreThis colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people.
It was a summer like no one had ever experienced:- Author: Hilmes, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1635425417
- Language: English
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1942: Crux of War
$45.00 Read moreAn engrossing and encyclopedic narrative of the year in which the outcome of World War Two hung in the balance
The year opened with the Axis powers inflicting a series of disasters on the newly formed- Author: Parshall, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: June 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0197848370
- Language: English
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Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine
$27.95 Add to cartHow the iconic publication’s unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism.
Rolling Stone‘s first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the orig- Author: Richardson, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0520399390
- Language: English
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Navajo Code Talker Manual
$17.95 Add to cartFrom Navajo men in service to their country came an extraordinary weapon in the Pacific Arena of World War II. Twenty-nine Navajo Marines were recruited to adapt their language into a code so secret a… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 17
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1940322375
- Language: English
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Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor
$29.95 Add to cartAn illuminating and moving portrait of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, in her later years after the Duke’s death.
The true story behind the film The Duchess and I, starring Isabella Rosselini- Author: Vickers, Hugo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101214
- Language: English
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
$24.95 Add to cart“Brilliantly revealing history of medieval women . . . Howes’s debut has just the right meld of insightful research, enjoyable storytelling and contemporary contexts.”–The Guardian
“A history of med- Author: Howes, Hetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0520430824
- Language: English
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Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa
$12.00 Add to cart- Author: Dreke, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1604882166
- Language: English
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
$19.99 Add to cart“Lively and entertaining . . . Those fearlessly determined female pilots are the professional forebears of the women who would slowly break down barriers in the U.S. military in the decades that follo
- Author: Aikman, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1639739343
- Language: English
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The American Revolution on Trial: A New Nation Confronts the Burden of Independence
$29.95 Add to cartA master historian uncovers a spellbinding story illustrating the stakes for the new nation in the American War for Independence
How does a new country demonstrate to the world that it is prepared to u
- Series: The Revolutionary Age
- Author: Breen, Timothy Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0813954975
- Language: English
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Globemaster Down: Soviet Espionage and the Doomed American Attempt to Sneak Nukes Into Europe
$29.00 Add to cartJust in time for the 75th anniversary comes the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly car… [more below]
- Author: Robberson, Tod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544600
- Language: English
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A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago’s Belmont Rocks
$24.95 Add to cartBelmont Rocks: Where Chicago Went Queer in Broad Daylight
A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago’s Belmont Rocks by Owen Keehnen is a vivid work of LGBTQ+ history, queer Chicago history, and oral history
- Author: Keehnen, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1968983023
- Language: English
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This Is Running: A Celebration of the World of Running, Exploring the Culture, History, Brands, Races and People Behind It
$30.00 Add to cartThis is Running is a celebration of the world of running, exploring everything you’d need to know about the sport and the rich culture that surrounds it.
Running is huge with an estimated 621 million- Author: Rauf, Raziq
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1837330425
- Language: English
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Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
$29.95 Add to cartA man thought to be a Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid fleeing poverty are hardly the images we have of America’s august founders. In Newcomers, Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of Am
- Author: Mikhail, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324095830
- Language: English
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Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History
$31.95 Add to cart- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1009668323
- Language: English
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The Visionaries: Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and the Making of the Post-World War II Order
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight d
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0802168078
- Language: English
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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body
$30.00 Read moreA vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work from a major new writer–stylish, revelatory, and liberating.
Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercise- Author: Maglaque, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603347
- Language: English
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Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
$35.00 Read moreFrom the prize-winning author of The Ottomans, a myth-busting history of Muslim-Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict.
“A revelatory picture of both coexistence and- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606590
- Language: English
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Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
$34.00 Read moreA sweeping history of America’s first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world’s first information superpower.
“Takes us beyond the f- Author: Wright, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606795
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$29.99 Add to cartOne of the New York Times’ Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! – New York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 20
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 006286436X
- Language: English
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
$22.00 Add to cart- Author: Starkey, Marion L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1969
- ISBN10: 0385035098
- Language: English
