General History
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
$41.58 Add to cart2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365485
- Language: English
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The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine
$16.95 Add to cartAlexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian to
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Schneider, Oren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 27 2023
- ISBN10: 949327652X
- Language: English
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The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine
$23.95 Add to cartAlexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian to
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Schneider, Oren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9493276538
- Language: English
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The Roman Revolution
$17.99 Add to cartIt was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the third century”. Long before the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between … [more below]
- Series: The Fall of the Roman Empire #1
- Author: Holmes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1739786505
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland
$25.99 Add to cartA candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After ‘the long war’ in Ireland came to an end,- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489321
- Language: English
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The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History
$29.99 Add to cartThe Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth’s tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, sh
- Author: Sledge, John S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1643360140
- Language: English
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TAVERN TALK Just One More!
$28.95 Add to cartAuthors Bobby & Sandy Orr took us on a fun uplifting journey through the neighborhoods of Springfield Illinois in their first book Tavern Talk published by Outskirts Press in 2019 documenting the valu… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1977219357
- Language: English
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The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet
$25.95 Add to cartAn heir to an established land-owning aristocratic family in Barbados, Major Stede Bonnet enjoyed luxuries equal to those of the finest houses in London. “A Gentleman of good Reputation” and a “Master… [more below]
- Author: Moss, Jeremy R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 164663151X
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- Language: English
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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages
$20.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center- Author: Fauvelle, Fran?ois-Xavier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217149
- Language: English
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Building Jewish Identity 4: Jewish History and Heritage
$10.95 Add to cartStudents will explore the themes of exile and return and learn how the values and traditions that have defined our people for countless generations help us to understand our world today.
Jewish History
- Series: Building Jewish Identity
- Author: House, Behrman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0874418674
- Language: English
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
$18.00 Add to cartA National Book Award Finalist
A “riveting” (New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empire On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Car- Author: Morton, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 30 1980
- ISBN10: 014005667X
- Language: English
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
$17.99 Add to cartThroughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender t… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1568586124
- Language: English
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England Before and After Wesley: The Evangelical Revival and Social Reform
$29.95 Add to cart“John Wesley and Karl Marx, unmistakably, are the two most influential characters of all modern history.” So argues J. Wesley Bready in this classic statement on the social significance of the origina
- Author: Bready, J. Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1573835943
- Language: English
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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
$19.99 Add to cartRebecca Frankel’s Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills.
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
One of Smithsonian M- Author: Frankel, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250874904
- Language: English
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
$32.00 Add to cartIn this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed–why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #12
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691192138
- Language: English
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The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston’s LGBTQ History
$34.95 Add to cartThough Charleston has a reputation for holding onto the past longer than most other places, it could not avoid the shock of change. Much has been written of the city’s history of civil rights, and its
- Author: Greene, Harlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 21 2022
- ISBN10: 192964776X
- Language: English
