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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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The Jossing AffairBritish-trained Norwegian intelligence agent Tore Haugland has enough worries when he is sent to a tiny fishing hamlet on the west coast of Norway to set up a line to receive arms and agents from England via the "Shetland Bus." Posing as a deaf...
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Romanic Depression: How the Jesuits Designed, Built and Destroyed AmericaAuthor and researcher Sean Maclaren presents a four-part series that reveals how the nearly 500-year-old Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, have designed, built and destroyed the United States of America. Using examples from all sectors of society, Maclaren also details the mechanisms used by...
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East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg: "we Supposed We Had Won the Battle..."Long neglected by historians and visitors to the battlefield, the eastern-most reaches of Cemetery Ridge formed the critical apex of the Union battle line at Gettysburg. Although one of the first areas chosen for preservation, the exigencies of development have permanently altered much of...
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On the Edge of a Country: Memoir of a young girl under Nazi fascismThe Holocaust sent six million Jews to their death. Five million others also died at the hands of the Nazis. Who are these forgotten victims? This book focuses on one such group-the Slovenian population living in the territory awarded to Italy following WW1. This...
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The Ancient World-Wide System: Star Myths of the World, Volume One (Second Edition)This completely new edition of Star Myths of the World, Volume One, stands as the definitive guide to the ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor which forms the foundation for the world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories, from virtually every culture on every...
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Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur StaceAlmost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stace spent hours writing a single word - Eternity - on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission took him much further afield, to country New South Wales and even to Melbourne.Stace's identity was a...
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Le Mans 1960-69: The Official History of the World's Greatest Motor RaceThis was the defining decade for the Le Mans 24 Hours. It started with six consecutive victories by Ferrari, overwhelming Aston Martin and Maserati. But then Ford threw its all-American dollars at the race and won it four times in a technically exciting period...
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How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking TruthThis explosive book blows the lid on one of the most shocking crimes of our modern era. But it does more than that. How They Murdered Princess Diana is the most complete evidence-based account of the assassination of Princess Diana yet written. It delivers...
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Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban NightclubTropicana is to Cuba what the Bolshoi is to Russia, the Moulin Rouge to Paris, or the Blue Note to New York--an enduring cultural mecca. This definitive biography of the place that was known as Paradise Under the Stars, vividly describes the 1950s nightclub...
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The Old Car Nut Book: "Where old car nuts tell their stories"The Old Car Nut Book was designed with the idea that EVERYONE in the old car hobby has a story or two to tell. These are stories from regular Old Car Nuts from across America. Contributors range from people like the average Joe at...
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Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National ParkOld Faithful Geyser, Emerald Spring, the magnificent canyons and falls of the Yellowstone River--these and other sites, familiar to the millions of visitors who travel through Yellowstone National Park each year, have been an inspiration to generations of artists. Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic...
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Locked Up With God: My Best Thirteen Speeches by Captain Guy D. Gruters, Vietnam POWThe title of this book reflects that it is a book about being locked up with God. This happened to me during the Vietnam War. I was an American prisoner of war - P.O.W. I spent over five years in a prison, and there...
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Decoding Nicea: Constantine Changed Christianity and Christianity Changed the WorldThe Council of Nicea was indeed clerics in a dark and ornate hall, but it was also brawls in churchyards, emperors and governors fighting to save the empire, and political intrigue as the governments of church and state blended into a volatile stew. It...
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Caves of MissouriIn this reprint of a classic piece of cave literature, the famed geologist, J Harlen Bretz, gives a detailed account of the formation and history of Missouri caves. Caves of Missouri contains over 450 surveyed caves, with in-depth geological and cultural histories, and 168...
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Utah's Canyon Country Place Names, Vol. 1Utah's Canyon Country Place Names documents more than 4,000 place name derivations and place name changes over time. It also includes stories and early descriptions about those places, often told by the first explorers or the early pioneers who settled there. Details are provided...
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The Theology of Blood: An Exploration of The Theology of Christ's BloodAn exploration of the Theology of Christ's Blood.Author: Kenneth W. BowPublisher: SavecomPublished: 10/04/2016Pages: 44Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12dISBN: 9780986002885This title is not returnable
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There Will Be Cyberwar: How The Move To Network-Centric War Fighting Has Set The Stage For CyberwarThe move on the part of the US military, which began in 1996, to Network-Centric Warfare (NCW), meant the combination of sensor grids, C&C grids, and precision targeting to increase speed to command, and represented a military offset. Along with networking comes exposure to...
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Name Dropping: The Cedar Bar in the 1950sFirst-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest generation in American art history." The author was friends with Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Philip...
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The 82nd Airborne Division: A Photographic History Volume 1: Training, Sicily, Salerno, AnzioWith 450 historic images, some never before published, this book is a visual journey that chronicles the legendary 82nd Airborne Division from its training in the United States, preparation for combat in Morocco and Tunisia, through spearheading the invasion of Sicily in the United...
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Goldfish Silver Boot - The Story of a World War II Prisoner of WarBy Harvey S. Horn. My story is about 36 days that changed my life. It is the story of a Jewish boy from Brooklyn who dreamt of flying and enlisted in the Army Air Corps to fight for his country. It is about survival....
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