History & Military
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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
$24.99 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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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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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
$19.99 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
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
$17.95 Add to cartIn Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and
- Author: Newitz, Annalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882454
- Language: English
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – From the author of Empire of Pain–a stunning, intricate narrative about a notoriou… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0307279286
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$24.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
$20.00 Add to cartThe powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, wh- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250237092
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$22.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0316418528
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
$22.00 Add to cartAn innovative thinker attempts to make sense of today’s most pressing issues in the face of constant and disorienting change. He raises the important questions people must ask in order to survive…. [more below]
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0525512195
- Language: English
