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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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Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands WarIn early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless tempo of events defies...
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A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left UsTHE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons of war... After chronicling the personal stories of the...
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A Brief History of NakednessNow available in a new format, from the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, a survey of the touching, sometimes tragic, and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies. As one...
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A Blooming Compendium: A College and Young Adult YearsAuthor: Kyle D. W. LauriaPublisher: Page PublishingPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 382Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85dISBN: 9798893158854
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A Black Corps d'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and Its Survivors in Subsequent African HisFor several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese...
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1978: Baseball and America in the Disco EraAmericans struggled to find their footing in the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended with more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers' deaths; the public's trust in politicians plummeted amid the Watergate scandal. As deadly blizzards ripped through the Midwest and Northeast in early 1978...
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Yul's Spanish TragedyThe Western Roman Empire is falling apart. Civil war rages, Germanic tribes invade, and Emperor Honorius hides in Ravenna. Constantine III rebels from Britain, stripping it of troops to march into Gaul. With help from the Franks and Suevi, he drives back the Vandals...
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Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the PacificA provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning...
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Women Who Dared Volume 2: 52 More Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and RebelsAuthor: Linda SkeersPublisher: Sourcebooks ExplorePublished: 07/08/2025Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverSize: 9.25h x 7.25w x 0.57dISBN: 9781728297781Audience: Ages 9-12
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Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female PresenceThis book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits of an ongoing research program launched by Save Venice,...
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Winning the Ten Crucial Days: The Keys to Victory in George Washington's Legendary Winter CampaignA new narrative of the Ten Crucial Days winter campaign of 1776-1777 with a focus on how leadership, geography, weather, artillery, and contingency reversed the tide of the war.The "Ten Crucial Days" winter campaign of 1776-77 is one of the most storied in the...
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New WorldA revelatory and joyous exploration of how one visionary inspired two-hundred years of art, poetry and protest by the acclaimed author of Albert and the Whale Weaving between the historical, cultural, and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and...
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Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle That Was GreeceThe ancient Greeks were exceptional and they were consequential. This innovative, engrossingly written book addresses head-on the problematic question of the Greek Miracle. It will appeal to anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning. Reviel Netz boldly argues that the traditional...
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What Was Bolshevism?How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow...
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What Was Built to Be a Ship of Dreams?: The Titanic: A Who HQ Graphic NovelDiscover the story of the Titanic's ill-fated voyage through three diverse perspectives of survivors in this affecting graphic novel by Let Me Out author Emmett Nahil and award-winning illustrator Shazleen Khan. Presenting Who HQ Graphic Novels: an exciting addition to the #1 New York...
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What Do We Know about Zombies?The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Are zombies real, myth, or legend? Find out all we know about the history of zombies. Zombies--the undead--have long been a subject of fascination. But can the dead really...
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What Do We Know about the Curse of King Tut's Tomb?The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Is this ancient curse fact, myth, or legend? Find out all we know about the curse of King Tut's tomb and its history in this exciting book! There have...
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Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and RevolutionariesThe untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold WarIn the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries. They arrived here to seek refuge,...
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War Prizes: An Illustrated Survey of German, Italian and Japanese Aircraft Brought to Allied Countries During and After the Second World WarThis book is a meticulously researched review of the many German, Italian and Japanese aircraft taken to Allied countries or flown by the Allies during or after the Second World War. The history of these captured aircraft has been extensively researched and the book...
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War & Peace & War: Twenty Years in AfghanistanIn early 2022, veteran journalist Andrew North was kidnapped by the Taliban. By the time he found himself imprisoned in a jail cell, he had been reporting from Afghanistan for two decades, coming to know hundreds of Afghans along the way. This book brings...
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