History
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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W.E. Fairbairn's Complete Compendium of Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand Combat Methods and FightingThe fully illustrated distilled knowledge of W.E. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed combat, and co-inventor of the Sykes-Fairbairn knife, who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the Shanghai waterfront. It has been suggested that Fairbairn was the inspiration for Q Branch,...
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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near EastA unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants, bricklayers, and others In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes readers on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's...
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Water Is Life: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Water RightsFor many Indigenous peoples, water is sacred. Indigenous peoples have lived by important water sources throughout their histories. But in the 1800s, treaties with the US government and people settling in the West forced many Indigenous peoples to leave their homelands, to leave their...
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War PrimerA terrifying series of short poems by one of the world's leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He...
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War Is a Force That Gives Us MeaningGeneral George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives,...
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War and PeaceTolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history...
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Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual BiographyThe life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism and democracy, the nature...
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Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary ArtThe most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary video and moving-image art from the last decadeVideo has never been more prevalent in contemporary art than it is today. At a time when moving images have saturated daily life, artists continue to draw new possibilities...
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Vigilance Is Not Enough: A History of United States IntelligenceA broad and deep survey of American intelligence from before the Revolution to the present Every nation has an intelligence apparatus--some means by which its top officials acquire needed information on sensitive issues. But each nation does it differently, influenced by its history, its...
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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon CityA sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice--from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day--that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire. No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging...
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Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International SecurityHow and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversaries How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma of fighting limited wars, only China has...
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Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout LondonA gripping new history of London during the Blackout--revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the...
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Ukrainian Modernism: Modernist Architecture of UkraineThe most comprehensive publication to date on the stunning modernist architecture that defined the landscape of Soviet-era UkraineWhat does Ukrainian modernist architecture look like, and why isn't it better known in the West? Photographer and architectural tour guide Dmytro Soloviov is fighting to preserve...
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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and ResistanceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year "This extraordinary book...
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Topgun: An American StoryNATIONAL BESTSELLER "If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book." -- Fox & Friends On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the "Topgun" Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and...
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"To honour God": The spirituality of Oliver CromwellThis selection of texts relating to Cromwell's spirituality has no intention of being hagiographical. That would be both false to the facts and a betrayal of the intent expressed in Cromwell's confessional remarks, namely his desire to live a life of Christian integrity. On...
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To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil RightsA CCBC 2024 Choices for the Historical People, Places, and Events selection!Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures and Mae Among the Stars! To Boldly Go tells the true story of Nichelle Nichols and how she used her platform on Star Trek to inspire and...
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Thought FormsWassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and other modern artists were profoundly influenced by this classic of the theosophical tradition, which explores the concept of what thoughts "look" like. Written by a pair of prominent theosophists, it provides a way to visualize the invisible realms within...
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, "a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before" (Entertainment Weekly) "Probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson...
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This Bridge Will Not Be Gray: Revised Edition with Updated Back MatterIn this delightfully original take on nonfiction, bestselling author Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural and natural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols ensures that this book feels like a special object, and the...
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