Potomac Books
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The Armed Forces Officer
$16.95 Add to cartInitiated in 1950, this 2007 edition is the latest in a classic series of books of the same title. Journalist-historian S. L. A. Marshall wrote the first at the behest of Gen. George C. Marshall, who … [more below]
- Author: U. S. Department of Defense
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971677
- Language: English
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Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience
$26.95 Add to cartOn September 6, 1970, twenty-year-old Mimi Nichter was on a flight home to New York from a summer in Israel when armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine crash-landed her pla
- Author: Nichter, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1640126848
- Language: English
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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
$34.95 Add to cartToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126546
- Language: English
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Charlie and Me: Charles Manson and the Reporter Who Came to Know the Most Famous Mass Murderer in History
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Manson, arguably the most famous killer in American history, remains a source of fascination more than fifty years after the Tate-LaBianca murders that shocked the nation. In previous books ab… [more below]
- Author: Neiswender, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126686
- Language: English
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Scarlett: Slavery’s Enduring Legacy in an American Family
$32.95 Add to cartA sixth-generation descendant of the Scarlett family of Georgia, Leslie Stainton grew up hearing about her heroic ancestors and their tragic plunge from wealth to poverty in the wake of the Civil War-… [more below]
- Author: Stainton, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126759
- Language: English
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If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War
$36.95 Add to cartIf I Can Get Home This Fall chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War as a soldier in the Sixth Vermont Infantry and as an officer in the Nineteenth U.S. Colored … [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 164012666X
- Language: English
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From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
$37.95 Add to cart2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional Nonfiction
Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iran
2021 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards- Author: Saper, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 164012117X
- Language: English
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Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker
$32.95 Add to cartIn Crush Nicholas O’Connell provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world’s most prestigious wineries on the West Coast. This insider’s view of the wine world includes… [more below]
- Author: O’Connell, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126317
- Language: English
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Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting
$38.95 Add to cartWinner of the Ray Hiebert History of Journalism Published Work Award
The history of American elections changed profoundly on the night of November 4, 1952. An outside-the-box approach to predicting w- Author: Chinoy, Ira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640125965
- Language: English
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Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy… [more below]
- Author: Henry, Chas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126457
- Language: English
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Fugitive Son: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartAram?s Calder?n was eleven in 1992 when federal marshals conducted a nighttime raid at the Baton Rouge apartment where he lived with his mother and four siblings. They were searching for Aram?s’s fath… [more below]
- Author: Calder?n, Aram?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640126260
- Language: English
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The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Antisemitic Riot
$34.95 Add to cart2024 American Book Fest Award Finalist in U.S. History
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the e- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 164012618X
- Language: English
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All Roads Lead to Rome: Searching for the End of My Father’s War
$32.95 Add to cartWhat happens when a seasoned journalist and travel writer takes on his most challenging assignment yet–crossing not just continents but also history–by retracing his father’s steps on the battlefiel… [more below]
- Author: Thorness, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640126279
- Language: English
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
$32.95 Add to cart2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner
2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner
2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist
2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Fi… [more below]- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 164012358X
- Language: English
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Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son
$36.95 Add to cart2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Biography
Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California’s nati- Author: Carter, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125604
- Language: English
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Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret’s Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
$24.95 Add to cartGrappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policymaker… [more below]
- Author: Waltz, Michael G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125744
- Language: English
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Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies
$34.95 Add to cartAfter World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencie… [more below]
- Author: Petty, Terrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640125698
- Language: English
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Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
$24.95 Add to cartMany people do not understand why America lost the Viet Nam War. Author Cecil B. Currey makes one primary reason clear: North Viet Nam’s Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Victory at Any Cost tells the full … [more below]
- Series: Warriors (Potomac Books)
- Author: Currey, Cecil B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574887424
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
$42.95 Add to cartThough she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman–the daughter of Romanian-born
- Author: Wallance, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1612349439
- Language: English
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Champagne Charlie: The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne
$32.95 Add to cartA New York Times Best Wine Book of 2021
Champagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth cen- Author: Kladstrup, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640123946
- Language: English
