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Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Out from the Shadows: Growing up with Holocaust Survivor ParentsGrowing up, the author and his family constantly lived under the shadow of the Holocaust. There was persistent tension at home. He was frequently told: "Finish your dinner. We didn't have food like this in the camps."His parents only provided bits and pieces of...
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Operation Barbarossa and Its Aftermath: New Approaches to a Complex CampaignThe 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, remains one of Nazi Germany's most significant military campaigns. Executed by Hitler's Wehrmacht army, this event saw troops from all over Europe defeat the Red Army and temporarily colonize large swathes of Eastern Europe,...
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Online Virality: Spread and InfluenceThe book Online Virality, edited by Val?rie Schafer and Fred Pailler (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), aims to provide a comprehensive examination of online virality. It explores the many ways we can think about this modern phenomenon and analyse the circulation, reception, and evolution of...
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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-KennedyAuthor: Elizabeth BellerPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 12/25/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9781420519761
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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a WarningAuthor: Liz CheneyPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 06/26/2024Pages: 711Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.30dISBN: 9781420514193
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Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red SoxNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Bill Simmons replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now. "The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of...
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War EraWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried) Impassioned...
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No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon ValleySince the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to...
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No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon ValleySince the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to...
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Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar's ColombiaPablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football. Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Colombian football during the early 1990s - shaped by drug lords, rivalries, and ambition. With untold insights from the players and politicians, it uncovers a football...
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Napoleon and His MarshalsThis vintage book contains a detailed account of the Napoleonic Wars by A. G. Macdonell. A. G. Macdonell (1895-1941) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. His most famous works include: "The Autobiography of a Cad", arguably amongst the funniest books ever written; "Lords and...
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My Voice: Peter AdlerPeter Adler was born in April 1933 in Berlin. When Hitler came to power, his father lost his job for being Jewish, and in 1936 he moved to England, where he had to requalify as a doctor. By June 1938, Peter, his mother and...
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Mysteries of Love and Grief: Reflections on a Plainswoman's LifeFrieda Harms was born into a farming family in Indian Territory in 1906. Widowed at thirty and left with three children in the midst of the Great Depression, she worked as a farmer, a railroad cook, a mill worker, and a nurse in four...
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My Journey: A World War II Marine Raider RemembersCharles H. Meacham was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, in a hunting and fishing lodge hand-built by his father. As a "free-range" child, he hiked, camped, fished, and hunted his way through childhood and adolescence.At age seventeen, Charles enlisted...
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My Father's Legacy: The 80-Year History of Halladay Motors and the Fou Owners Who Built it: The 80-CARL R. HALLADAY, SR. was born in 1903 and grew up with the automobile industry. His son, Carl Jr. tells his father's story about growing up on a small farm in Ohio. Then after an interesting time in the Army, he went to work...
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and FutureAlice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents "a celebration of all things country music" (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even...
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Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic WorldThe dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations. In 1768, the British slave ship Black...
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Must Farm Pile-Dwelling Settlement: Volume 1. Landscape, Architecture and OccupationOffers unprecedented insights into daily life and domestic practices in prehistoric Europe.The Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement at Must Farm is one of the most important and best-preserved prehistoric sites to have been systematically excavated in Europe.The settlement comprised a curving palisade enclosing five...
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More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and SorceryA woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for traveling merchants. A wealthy widow is drugged and robbed by a lodger posing as...
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Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640During the 1630s, more than 14,000 people sailed from Britain bound for New England, constituting what has come to be known as the Great Migration. This book offers the most extensive study of these emigrants ever undertaken. Focusing on 2,000 individuals who moved from...
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