General History
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Imperial China
$50.00 Read moreExplore the long and rich history of China’s great dynasties.
From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China’s imperial history to life through its pivotal e- Series: DK Classic History
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0744020476
- Language: English
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
$30.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling au… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0593414063
- Language: English
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
$20.00 Read moreFrom bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110993
- Language: English
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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
$18.00 Read moreA sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff
A literary gem research… [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158269
- Language: English
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s
$17.95 Read moreOne of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourish
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021934
- Language: English
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D?kirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk
$30.00 Read more‘Kershaw’s book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.’ – The Times
- Author: Kershaw, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1472854373
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Civil War: 49-44 BC
$20.00 Read moreFully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar’s Civil War.
Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produ- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1472855078
- Language: English
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The Portable Karl Marx
$25.00 Read moreIncludes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital, a broad representation of his letters, and lesser-known wo… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 31 1983
- ISBN10: 014015096X
- Language: English
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A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
$20.00 Read more“An absorbing and moving autobiography…An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era.”-… [more below]
- Author: Tang, Truong Nhu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394743091
- Language: English
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Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History
$24.95 Add to cartKorea has endured a “fractured, shattered twentieth century,” and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings’s leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the… [more below]
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327027
- Language: English
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
$32.00 Add to cart“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”–The New York Times Book Review
A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights- Author: Hampton, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 553352326
- Language: English
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So Incredibly Idaho: Seven Landscapes That Define the Gem State
$49.95 Add to cartIdaho, unknown to most and loved by those who have experienced it, comes alive in this innovative work. This title reveals the many aspects of Idaho’s varied landscapes. It describes the hidden forces… [more below]
- Author: Schwantes, Carlos A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0893011932
- Language: English
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The Smallest Hope
$14.95 Read moreJack Klajman is only nine years old when the ghetto walls go up in Warsaw. The Smallest Hope is his powerful memoir recounting how he survived by smuggling food from outside the ghetto, and by hiding
- Series: The Azrieli Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
- Author: Klajman, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1998880052
- Language: English
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The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom
$38.00 Read moreA new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe.
Kyivan Rus’ was a state in northeastern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variet- Series: Dynasties
- Author: Raffensperger, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147158
- Language: English
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Seven Ages of Paris
$25.00 Add to cartIn this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is neve… [more below]
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034469
- Language: English
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Goering’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
$24.00 Read moreA charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world
“[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a n- Author: Petropoulos, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300274262
- Language: English
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
$39.95 Read moreHydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspect
- Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712373
- Language: English
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Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
$32.00 Add to cartIn the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gordon Thomas reveals that all too often the truth ex
- Author: Thomas, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1250056403
- Language: English
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Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide
$25.95 Read moreThe resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, mi… [more below]
- Author: Wilkinson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1350129399
- Language: English
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Once Upon an Eskimo Time
$21.95 Read moreContinuing the sacred tradition of her ancestors, in Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother’s life. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her
- Author: Wilder, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1602230560
- Language: English
