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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The Revolution BetrayedThis book by Leon Trotsky makes a profound analysis and evaluation of Stalinism and the Soviet burreacracy. It was written in 1936 before Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by Stalin's secret police. Trotsky's thinking prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union 60 years before...
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The Red, White, and BlueCome with us on a journey to discover what the colors of the American flag stand for.Author: Diane Zimmer, KimberlyPublisher: Christian Faith PublishingPublished: 08/14/2024Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.06dISBN: 9798893457582Audience: Baby-Preschool
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The (Real) Revolution in Military AffairsThe liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such a collapse remains a matter of speculation and public debate. The US is desperately seeking to preserve the status...
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The Quest of the Historical Muhammad and Other Studies on Formative IslamThe lead essay in this book is the first effort to approach the historical figure of Muhammad in a manner comparable to the investigations that biblical scholars have made in the effort to recover the historical figure of Jesus. Using comparable methods and approaches,...
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The Puppet Maker's DaughterIt's Hungary 1944. The war comes late to Budapest. Nineteen-year-old Marika, forced out of nursing school, believes she and her Jewish family will remain safe, even as Nazi soldiers fill their cobbled streets. With Russians to their east, the Allies to their west, everyone...
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American CenturyA SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of President...
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The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel NasserIhsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position...
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The Phoenician Origin of Britons Scots and Anglo-SaxonsL. A. Waddell's captivating volume explores Britain's origins and presents new historical evidence from ancient Phoenician and Sumerian civilisations. First published in 1924, this work is an exploration of the early history of Britain's ancestry. Exploring the Britons, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons in the pre-Roman...
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The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat Over Laos Volume 12David R. "Buff" Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country almost unknown...
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The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the NazisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Ride of Her Life and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the "winningly readable" (The Christian Science Monitor) true story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II. "Hard...
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The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the RepublicUsing the lens of history, The Path to Paralysis offers the first comprehensive analysis of how U.S. politics became polarised and dysfunctional and why things aren't likely to change soon.Author: Donald G. NiemanPublisher: Anthem PressPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...
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Theodore of Sykeon: The Life by George and Encomium by Nicephorus the TreasurerTheodore of Sykeon is one of the archetypal holy men of the late Roman world, a person whose intense ascetic regime earned him fame in the villages and cities of his Galatian homeland, where he was called upon to work a variety of miracles...
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The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train RobbersThe true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers,...
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The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the Us and China Will Shape Our CenturyAn urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham House "An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making...
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The Napoleonic Wars: An Enthralling Guide to Global Conflict, Revolutionary Tactics, and the Empire's ExpansionThe Napoleonic Wars: A Power Struggle That Shaped the Modern WorldWhat if the true impact of the Napoleonic Wars has been misunderstood? Immerse yourself in an era of colossal battles, revolutionary military strategies, and a world forever altered by Napoleon Bonaparte's relentless ambition. The...
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The Muses Threnodie: Or Mirthful Mournings on the Death of Master Gall by Henry AdamsonThis edition of a seventeenth-century Scottish poem gives modern audiences insight into the ways previous generations perceived and engaged with local nature and architecture. Henry Adamson's "The Muses Threnodie" (1638) offers insights into the lives, amusements and anxieties of of the residents of the...
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THE MEMOIR OF A Cold War CommunicatorIn June 1961, author William C. Burk graduated from Milford High School, Milford, Delaware, with 130 other students. He joined the Navy in July at Philadelphia and took his first airplane ride to Great Lakes Recruiting Center for thirteen weeks of boot camp, during...
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The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through Chantilly, JuneA map-based analysis of the Second Bull Run Campaign, detailing troop movements, battles, and strategies with full-color cartography and insightful commentary.The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through...
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The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898 unveils the formative years of one of the 20th century's most influential socialist thinkers and revolutionary leaders. In this groundbreaking collection, historian Conor McCabe brings together Connolly's earliest articles, letters, and speeches, many of which...
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The Life of a Romanian WWI Prisoner of War: A War JournalReaders today are watching the voices of those who endured the First and Second World Wars diminish or disappear, unheard, altogether. To preserve, illuminate, and share her great-grandfather's memories for future generations, Emma Dirk has translated his over 100-year-old journal and compiled those entries...
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