History & Military
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
$24.00 Add to cartIn Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides.
Setting the scene
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128602
- Language: English
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
$19.99 Add to cartThe book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1851685553
- Language: English
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The Secret Parchment: Five Tibetan Initiation Techniques
$29.95 Add to cartAfter a hall of records was discovered beneath the Romanian Sphinx in 2003, an ancient parchment surfaced in the highest mountains of Tibet. This book tells the story of the detailed political intrigu
- Author: Cinamar, Radu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 09, 2013
- ISBN10: 1937859134
- Language: English
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
$34.93 Add to cartThis timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political l… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 520293282
- Language: English
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
$32.00 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events o- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250283329
- Language: English
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The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpiece- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107542
- Language: English
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.
Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Sta- Author: Mason, R. H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15, 1997
- ISBN10: 080482097X
- Language: English
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The Making of a Slave
$7.99 Add to cart”This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712″–P. 7].
- Author: Lynch, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 08, 2020
- ISBN10: 1180562313
- Language: English
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The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery (Updated E
$45.00 Add to cart“A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way–ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously.” –Tom Brokaw
The first book to tell the full st- Author: Beyer, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1797225294
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
$23.99 Add to cartFrom stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imaginati… [more below]
- Author: Pinch, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0195170245
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
$24.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history–the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors
- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 054494710X
- Language: English
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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.”… [more below]
- Author: Lowenstein, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0735223572
- Language: English
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
$22.00 Add to cart“Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is he
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880896
- Language: English
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
$22.99 Add to cartA “thrilling” (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar
The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, ex
- Author: Price, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601114
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
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- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103051
- Language: English
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty–“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)
The first Pl- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124927
- Language: English
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
$16.99 Add to cartThis riveting paperback explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, and shines a piercing light on perceptions of powerful women today.
Female rulers are a rare- Author: Cooney, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 142622088X
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$18.99 Add to cartIn SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undispute
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1631492225
- Language: English
