History
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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Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 1941-1942 Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow, a bold, gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II, David...
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The Glory of African Kings and QueensFor young children between the ages of 7 - 10, this beautifully illustrated book captures a panorama of African history through the eyes of ten illustrious monarchs. It spans 3000 years, from the Nile Valley across the whole of the continent. It's a fascinating...
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Le livre du sang: Sven et l'ancien testamentJ'ai lu ce roman avec un grand plaisir et, bien que convaincu depuis longtemps de la toxicit de la Bible h bra que, j'y ai trouv bien des id es et des points de vue nouveaux. En abordant ce sujet aust re sous la...
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Rembrandt and Velázquez: Dutch and Spanish MastersTwo 17th-century masters in dialogue and in contextThis volume presents the best work of two 17th-century master painters from the Netherlands and Spain, pairing paintings by each while also looking at them in the context of their contemporaries and compatriots, such as Zurbar n,...
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The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and PerformanceHow performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by F lix Gonz lez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness...
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Lake Tahoe Tourist Guide, USA: Tour North Lake Tahoe, South Lake TahoeLake Tahoe Tourist Guide, USA. Tour North Lake Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe. Whether you swim, fish, sail, or simply rest on its shores, you'll be wowed by the overwhelming beauty of Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America. Famous for its cobalt-blue...
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Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century LeadersYou may never visit the Gettysburg battlefield, but understanding historic lessons from Battle Tested will have a profound influence on not only your leadership abilities, but also your life, organizations, and career. In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to...
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My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights MovementGwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a young woman, Patton would return to Montgomery, Alabama, just in time for the civil...
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Hudson River LighthousesAuthor: Hudson River Maritime MuseumPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublished: 06/17/2019Pages: 130Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38dISBN: 9781540239082This title is not returnable
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Leading at the Edge: True Tales from Canadian Police in Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping Missions Around the WorldDeluxe Colour First EditionLeading at the Edge: True Tales from Canadian Police in Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping Missions around the World is a collection of ten short biographical stories about the work of Canadian police peacebuilders and peacekeepers overseas.Through the stories, the reader is transported...
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Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military JusticePartisan activities of disloyal women and the Union army's reaction During the American Civil War, more than four hundred women were arrested and imprisoned by the Union Army in the St. Louis area. The majority of these women were fully aware of the political...
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Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of ThermodynamicsAt the heart of many fields - physics, chemistry, engineering - lies thermodynamics. While this science plays a critical role in determining the boundary between what is and is not possible in the natural world, it occurs to many as an indecipherable black box,...
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Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of HumanitySpace is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid...
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Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early RelationsWinner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans practiced a religion almost identical...
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Walking AgainWhile deployed to Afghanistan with the 428th Engineer company in 2011, Lane's Truck was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)The explosion left hie ina coma for six weeks with 26 injuries, requiring 26 operations. He lost both legs and was given the worst...
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Historia Antigua: Una Guía Fascinante sobre el Antiguo Egipto, la Antigua Grecia y la Antigua Roma3 manuscritos completos en 1 libro Antiguo Egipto: Una gu a fascinante de la historia de Egipto, antiguas pir mides, templos, mitolog a egipcia y faraones como Tutankam n y Cleopatra Antigua Grecia: Una Fascinante Gu a de La Historia Griega, empezando desde la...
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Christian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Christianity, Kings of Israel and Judah, and Queen of ShebaIf you want to discover the captivating history of Christianity, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Christianity: A Captivating Guide to Crucial Moments in Christian History, Including Events Such as the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ, the Early Church,...
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The Armenian Genocide: A Captivating Guide to the Massacre of the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman EmpireIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading...During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling ways comprehensible. They were ripped from their homes (in a land...
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European Military Rivalry, 1500-1750: Fierce PageantEuropean Military Rivalry, 1500-1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim.The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and...
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Book 2 Leslie's Travel Companion: Leslie's Field Guide to IrelandLeslie's Field Guide to Ireland is a pocket-sized 4x6 inch reference book packed with information travellers to the Emerald Isle will be glad to keep at hand. Loaded with hand-drawn maps, places of interest, archeological sites, mythological characters, DNA and genealogy, a pronunciation key...
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