History & Military
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)–an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March–from the author of Bl
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07, 2002
- ISBN10: 038549565X
- 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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Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
$21.99 Add to cartBeginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers–mainly young women–suffered from unseen to… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190627808
- Language: English
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Cuba 1959: Novela. Ficcion Historica
$24.02 Add to cartCUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro’s takeover of the island on January
- Author: Rivero, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 1481779559
- Language: Spanish
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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
$20.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers.
In combating terror, America can no longe- Author: Couch, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339394
- Language: English
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
$20.00 Add to cartAlready a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden’s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since th
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13, 2010
- ISBN10: 080214473X
- 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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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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The First World War
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. “Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient…. Keegan is…perhaps the best mil… [more below]
- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0375700455
- Language: English
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A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam
$19.99 Add to cartAward-winning military historian Lewis Sorley’s A Better War is “an extraordinary piece of work that is bound to become a valuable part of historical documentation about the war in Vietnam. The first … [more below]
- Author: Sorley, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0156013096
- Language: English
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Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community
$21.95 Add to cartA social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City”
Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 194
- Author: Hunner, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138912
- Language: English
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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
$19.99 Read moreLibrary Journal Best Books of 2025 * New York Public Library Best Books of 2025 * Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Biography * Hyperallergic Favorite Art Books of 2025 * Publishers Wee
- Author: Young, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0063295903
- Language: English
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The Old Soldiers Show: Stories from the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
$39.95 Add to cartDuring the summer of 1913, more than 53,000 Civil War veterans descended on Gettysburg for the fiftieth anniversary of the great battle. Over the course of six days, the old soldiers told stories over
- Author: Vetter, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0811778592
- Language: English
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True Crime Burbank
$24.99 Read moreBurbank is known as a haven from the craziness of nearby Hollywood, but the city has a dark underbelly.
Nellie May Madison shot her husband to death at their home in 1934 and became the first woman to
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Bartlett, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1467170291
- Language: English
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Half Century Baby Volume II
$70.00 Read moreF-14 Tomcat history unfolds through iconic images, profiles, and recollections from pilots and crews.
Hot on the heels of Half Century, Baby! Fifty Years of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, authors David Parso… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1911704230
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Australia: From First Nations Origins to Thriving, Multicultural Nation-State?a Continent of Epic Beauty’s Singular Past
$16.95 Read moreAs a land associated with extremes–from remote desert terrain to some of the world’s deadliest creatures–few countries feel as geographically and culturally independent as Australia.
While pop-cultur
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: McKenna, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031614
- Language: English
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Prosperity Road: America, 1920-1945, from Hoover to Roosevelt
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of America during the tumultuous decades between the ends of World War I and World War II, when a mainly rural, isolationist republic was transformed into a nuclear superpower and t
- Series: American History
- Author: Badger, Anthony J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0060744758
- Language: English
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The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century
$32.00 Read moreThe global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today’s neighborhood indies.
“This is the arresting and ultimately optimistic story of the making and m- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1541607279
- Language: English
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
$24.00 Add to cartAn intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe–a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.
In- Author: Englund, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307739287
- Language: English
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
$33.00 Add to cartA bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945–from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, a- Author: Gellately, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 140003213X
- Language: English
