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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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My Name Is B-1259: I Survived Nine Nazi Concentration CampsElias Feinzilberg is a young man living in Lodz, Poland, when he is separated from his family as the Nazis invade his country at the start of World War II. At this moment, his life expectancy is at best a few months. Against all...
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My Father's War: Finding Meaning in My Father's World War II Military ServiceIn February 1945, Roland Hartman, a member of the 417th Infantry Regiment, crossed the flooded, raging Sauer River into Germany's impregnable Siegfried Line. Lucky to survive the crossing where hundreds of men died, he later became an American POW in Stalag IX-B. He considered...
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Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors: Volume IIAuthor: Randy RoachPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 10/31/2011Pages: 728Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.75dISBN: 9781467038409This title is not returnable
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Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Reno and Northern NevadaBefore Las Vegas became the entertainment capital of the world, there was Reno. Known as the Biggest Little City in the World, Reno was the legalized gambling, prostitution, and divorce center of the universe. Naturally, there was crime--in the city and in the surrounding...
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Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American CollageAn engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity Building on a technique that has roots in European and American traditions, Black artists have turned to collage as a way...
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Mudslingers: A True Story of Aerial Firefighting (an American Origins Story)The unique history of aerial firefighting as seen through the eyes of a pilot, former Navy SEAL, and current owner of one of the most successful aerial firefighting companies in the world. Blending historical context and first-person narrative, Mudslingers tells the dramatic and colorful...
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Motorcycle State of Mind: Beyond Scraping PegsWhy jump berms? Step over them.Why lean into the wind? Drive a car. Why ride a motorcycle? Every revolution of the wheel is an opportunity when you read between the lines. Explore, join the author as he tunes up. It's a quick trip down...
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Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune TellersThe neglected histories of 19th century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them. Under the pseudonym Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York...
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More Work Than Glory: Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army, 1865-1916Profusely illustrated with compelling images and detailed maps, along with an array of appendices, this latest addition to the Buffalo Soldier saga represents over five decades of research by military historian John P. Langellier.Prior to the 1960s, the term "Buffalo Soldier" was a fairly...
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MoragaLong before the Gold Rush drew settlers from the East, the land that would one day be developed into the town of Moraga was situated on a large rancho owned by the Moraga family. Nestled amongst hills just east of Oakland and Berkeley, the...
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Montana Greats: From a (Absarokee) to Z (Zurich), the Greatest Athletes from 264 Montana CommunitiesEvery community has a sports hero, but do you know who they are? Author Jeff Welsch, the Montana sports editor for Lee Newspapers, researched the record books; interviewed athletes, coaches, and local sports fans; and travelled across the state to determine each community's best...
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Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson CampaignWhile Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-running siege in American history. During the summer of 1863, US soldiers fought in the infamous heat and damp of...
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Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and StrategyThis collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the endeavors...
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Miami: The Magic CityMiami sprang into existence on July 28, 1896, following the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway from West Palm Beach on April 15, 1896, and the publication of the soon-to-be city's first newspaper, The Miami Metropolis, on May 15, 1896. However, evidence suggests...
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Messerschmitt Me 309: Development & PoliticsChosen in 1941 to replace the Bf 109 as the Luftwaffe's standard front-line fighter, Messerschmitt's innovative Me 309 embodied a wealth of hard-won experience from the Battle of Britain. Its sturdy tricycle undercarriage would make landings safer, its capacious wings could accommodate much heavier...
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Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of BordersAs Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied...
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Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865Author: John G. SelbyPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 01/09/2024Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781606354759
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MazzarothIn Mazzaroth; or The constellations, originally published in 1862, 19th-century English linguist and scholar FRANCES ROLLESTON (1781-1864) presents readers with her theory of the gospel in the stars. Rolleston believed that through the ancient names for the stars, one could discover the oldest knowledge...
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Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist's development and the accomplishments that earned...
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Massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das ReichThe massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is...
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