History & Military
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$21.99 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116803
- 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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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
$24.95 Add to cartSince its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at th… [more below]
- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836740409
- Language: English
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international co… [more below]
- Author: Reston, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1400031915
- Language: English
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Guadalcanal’s Longest Fight: The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front
$34.95 Read more“Drawing from previously unknown and unused sources, Holland paints a vivid picture of the desperate fights that broke the back of the Japanese forces ashore during that pivotal period of 1942. Hollan… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Dave R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1636245846
- Language: English
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Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens
$29.95 Add to cartA new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city’s supposed “Golden Age” as a period of ruinous culture wars.
The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is o- Author: Stuttard, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0674258479
- Language: English
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age
$29.95 Add to cartThe Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blain
- Author: Mitchell, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1889020613
- Language: English
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
$21.99 Add to cartIn imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while s
- Author: Barraclough, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123346
- Language: English
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New England Sweets: Doughnuts, Bonbons & Whoopie Pies
$24.99 Add to cartA chocolate mill opened in Boston in the late 1700s, setting the stage for New England’s enduring love affair with sweets. Over the following centuries, the region has become home to an extraordinary
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bregman, Susan Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157481
- Language: English
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The History Book
$34.99 Add to cartWhy did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Part of DK’s indispensable Big Ideas series, this fully revised
- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: Dk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593966783
- Language: English
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
$20.00 Add to cartWITH A NEW AFTERWORD
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR’s Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Boo- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593476115
- Language: English
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The Shipyard Agent
$26.95 Add to cartAs an undercover investigator, Augusta Clawson was assigned to Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard to join the ranks of female welders in World War II. Meanwhile, she surreptitiously sent reports back to
- Author: Hodgins, Beverly Lionberger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1493087630
- Language: English
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The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate
$32.50 Add to cartHow white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics
It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist- Author: Dozier, Curtis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0300272731
- Language: English
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Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
$27.00 Add to cartAn honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru’s Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina’s Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nic… [more below]
- Author: Rosenberg, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140172548
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended
$29.99 Add to cartA clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revoluti
- Author: Richards, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1620979241
- Language: English
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Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
$27.00 Add to cart*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award*
From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order- Author: Diamond, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560645
- Language: English
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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US part… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1781689997
- Language: English
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Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy
$24.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power
- Author: Kolb, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657885
- Language: English
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
$32.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of the Jewish Bund–a revolutionary movement from a vanished world–and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.
“Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to- Author: Crabapple, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593229452
- Language: English
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Facing Washington’s Crossing: The Hessians and the Battle of Trenton
$35.00 Add to cartThey crossed the ocean to fight in someone else’s war. They came for glory, honor, and plunder. Instead, they became America’s most famous captives.
In Steven Bier’s groundbreaking book, Facing Washin
- Author: Bier, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1594164436
- Language: English
