Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
$16.99 Add to cartOn December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, Canada. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and the other held relief supplies, both intended for war-torn Europe
- Author: Walker, Sally M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1250040086
- Language: English
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Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience
$27.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,” Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of s… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Guti?rrez, Edward A
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0700624449
- Language: English
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Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
$26.99 Add to cartAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had … [more below]
- Author: Pedersen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190619120
- Language: English
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Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military’s Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit
$18.99 Add to cartThe definitive insider’s account of the U.S. Army’s most elite and secretive special-ops unit, written by the legendary founder and first commanding officer of Delta Force
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- Author: Beckwith, Charlie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 006224969X
- Language: English
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Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance’s boast is manifest–these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one w
- Author: Murphy, Cait N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060889381
- Language: English
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Two Crows Sorrow: Love and Death on the North Mountain
$22.95 Add to cartTiny Burlington, tucked away on the slopes of Nova Scotia’s North Mountain. In 1904 it was home to hardworking farmers, complicated family dynamics, passionate lovers, and a murderer.
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- Author: Churchill Duke, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1999140540
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
$17.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
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- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1335081917
- Language: English
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The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or in Hell
$19.99 Add to cartGeorgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts the tragic tale of the Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900.
On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company’s Engine #7 and its passengers were gree
- Series: Disasters (Saddleback)
- Author: Wells, Jeffery C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629826X
- Language: English
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Titanic Survivor
$17.95 Add to cartViolet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on… [more below]
- Author: Jessop, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1574093150
- Language: English
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Dam Buster
$34.99 Add to cartSir Barnes Wallis CBE became a household name after the hit 1954 film The Dam Busters in which Michael Redgrave portrayed a shy, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy. Yet this was a sim… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1474623425
- Language: English
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Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse’s Story
$24.95 Read moreThis recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfastly and true to her profes… [more below]
- Author: Newman, Vivien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1399023217
- Language: English
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The Walls of Lucca
$22.00 Add to cartAs Italy tries to heal from the wounds of World War I, one young woman brings together a number of strangers from disparate sections of the struggling country’s society. Isabella Roselli has an inner
- Series: This Is Book One of a 2-Book
- Author: Physioc, Steven Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: August 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0692177795
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
$19.95 Add to cartWas Cyrus Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed’s life and those of his followers, the Koreshans, … [more below]
- Author: Millner, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0813064406
- Language: English
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Undertones of War
$17.00 Add to cart“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I r… [more below]
- Author: Blunden, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226061760
- Language: English
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Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most fascinating figures in Vietnam during the War was Pham Xuan An, a Time correspondent; and, unbeknownst to me and my colleagues who covered the conflict, a clandestine Vietcong agent.
- Author: Berman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0060888393
- Language: English
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Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen
$22.99 Add to cartHawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898) is an autobiography by Lili’uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was written in the aftermath of Lili’uokalani’s attempt to appeal on behalf of her people to P
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Lili’uokalani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513209027
- Language: English
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The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
$18.99 Add to cartA Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, an
- Author: Bashir, Yousef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062917331
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
$14.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . Defiant . . . Pulling back the curtain on 100 years of struggle . . . The women who shaped the American narrative come to life with refreshing attention to detail.”–The New York Times B… [more below]
- Author: Conkling, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1616209887
- Language: English
