General History
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- Language: English
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Washakie, Chief of the Shoshones
$19.95 Add to cartWashakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace Ra… [more below]
- Author: Hebard, Grace Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272782
- Language: English
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece — And Western Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartOn a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered b… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0743244516
- Language: English
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have hel… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0743235940
- Language: English
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
$37.27 Add to cartA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction–and abiding promise
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era o- Author: Jarausch, Konrad H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173079
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$58.33 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691167125
- Language: English
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
$18.99 Add to cartPart history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 061808231X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Austria
$32.00 Add to cartFor a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today’s Austrians have a problematic relationshi… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Beller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: January 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0521478863
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
$43.68 Add to cartNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, govern… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Raj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 520293134
- Language: English
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
$25.99 Add to cartThe characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historians may gloss over human slaughter, emphasizing the defense of national honor, but for men in active ser… [more below]
- Author: Bourke, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0465007384
- Language: English
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$31.00 Add to cartIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin “the most dangerous place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about.
Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin
- Author: Kempe, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0425245942
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
$40.99 Add to cartThe Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay’s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes’ program and their vi… [more below]
- Series: Enlightenment an Interpretation
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393313662
- Language: English
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
$19.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestu… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316409669
- Language: English
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young
$29.95 Add to cartThis true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of tho
- Author: Young, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 0292787049
- Language: English
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
$19.99 Read moreThe poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examini- Author: Desbois, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617573
- Language: English
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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records
$14.95 Add to cart“The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.”
The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that laste- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Qian, Sima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199574391
- Language: English
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
$20.00 Add to cartDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz’s Angel o… [more below]
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette Matalon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140169318
- Language: English
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The Jews
$10.80 Add to cartThe object of this book is explain the relation between the Jews and the nations around them in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The author addresses problems and challenges of mutual life… [more below]
- Author: Belloc, Hilaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 8027342341
- Language: English
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Experience Modern Israel Plus Modern Israel Online
$16.95 Read moreImmerse students in all aspects of Israel today meet the diverse people who live there debate Israel’s responses to its challenges and begin to develop a personal relationship with the Jewish homeland… [more below]
- Author: House, Behrman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874418003
- Language: English
