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 Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington's army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat. The first twenty-one months of the...
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The Eyes Are The SameThe Eyes Are The Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye. Drawn into a vortex of deception, denial, and lies, her privileged childhood is torn apart-replaced by two harrowing years spent in a hole...
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The Essential Guide to ChristianityWho was Jesus Christ? How did Christianity become the world's largest religion? What do Christians believe? By understanding the answers to these three basic questions, readers will gain a broad overview of what exactly Christianity is, and why it has attracted more people than...
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The English Civil War: Myth, Legend and Popular MemoryHow Cavaliers and Roundheads in English ghost stories reflect historical trauma, integrating detailed regional history of the 1642-1651 conflicts.Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality...
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The Eight: A Season in the Tradition of Harvard CrewA fascinating look at the 2008 Harvard Varsity Crew Team and the university's legendary history of accomplished rowers. The Eight is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look at a group of young men who have given up nearly everything to transform themselves into the best team...
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the EarthMalm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare. Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has...
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The Circle of Light: A World Champion Hoop Dancer's Journey to Embracing His Native RootsMom put her fingers to her mouth and whistled, and it was loud. Then she yelled out in a loud voice, "Hach, Hach, MosesI!" looked up at her in dismay. I had no idea what she was yelling. Then she yelled again, saying, "Hach,...
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The Church's Unholy WarHow did religion contribute to Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Heated disputes and alienation among Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia contributed to Russian aggression in Crimea and Donbas in 2014, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This book examines attempts from the...
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The Buenos Aires Reader: History, Culture, PoliticsThe Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider's look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina's capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present. Refuting the tired clich? that Buenos Aires is the "Paris of South America,"...
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The Book of Emperors: An Illustrated History of the MughalsA little over five hundred years ago, a boy sat in a garden, waiting for his story to begin. His name was Babur, and he would soon found an empire that astonished the world. For three hundred years, Babur's sons and grandsons, alongside their...
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The Blue-Eyed ButterflyIn the early to mid-1920s, women were forced to keep silent about domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies, or sexual abuse. When the unthinkable happened, they were hidden or sent away. If they stayed, there would be no relief from the violence or shame and no...
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The Birth Certificate: An American HistoryFor many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow "birthers" reminded us when...
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The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News"He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia."--Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the trusted voice of WPVI's Action News for 47 years "We were the only station that stayed on the air continuously. We even pre-empted the...
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The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle EastAn unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war "One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."--Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war...
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The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret HistoryIn June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of...
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The Art of WarThe Art of War, also known as the Sunzi ("Master Sun") or Sunzibingfa ("Master Sun's Art of War / Master Sun's Military Strategy" ), is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun...
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The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual FictionsFocusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters...
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The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten MatchesJonathan Wilson and Scott Murray provide a forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool games that have shaped the club's fortunes over the last century: from the long-lost triumphs of Tom Watson (a 19th-century Bill Shankly) to 1970s European triumphs over the likes of Borussia...
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The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi SultanateWonderfully well researched . . . engrossing, enlightening' The Hindu The Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos and violence-of plundering kings, turbulent dynasties, and the aggressive imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that...
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The 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters at Gettysburg: Like A Perfect Hornet's NestThe many works on the Battle of Gettysburg have neglected the role of the 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters, known for their extensive training and specialized tactics. This history is the first to explore the actions on July 2, 1863, of this Union Army regiment largely...
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