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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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Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern CounterinsurgencyRevolutionary Warfare investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary. The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. By tracing how French...
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Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese CommunismThe iconic history of the Chinese Communist leaders who forever changed the course of China The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao's life, as well as...
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic RescueTwo-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history. Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Yet,...
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Rangda: The Legendary Goddess of BaliRangda: The Legendary Goddess of Bali examines the layered origins of this premier Southeast Asian goddess. As revered as Pele of the Polynesian Islands, Rangda is perhaps the most familiar, most feared, and most revered deity, regularly represented by her unique and horrifying mask...
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Queens at War: England's Medieval Queens Book FourThe tumultuous period in English history that marked the end of the medieval era and the rise of the Tudors comes to stunning life in the final volume of Alison Weir's four-part Medieval Queens series, filled with dramatic true stories chronicling the turbulent reigns...
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Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited: The Published Versus the Unpublished RecordChaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are arguably the two best-known archaeological areas in the American Southwest. Yet despite more than a century of archaeological research, many questions remain unanswered.From more than fifty years of research, archaeologist Jonathan E. Reyman has uncovered a wealth of...
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy ItFor readers of Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, and Jared Diamond: A bold, provocative, wide-ranging argument about the human idea of progress that offers a new vision of our futureProgress is power. Narratives of progress, the stories we tell about whether a society is moving...
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Prettycitylondon: Discovering London's Beautiful Places Volume 1Go beyond London's famous landmarks and discover the hidden gems. From secluded mews and undiscovered cafes to flower markets and tree-lined streets, prettycitylondon champions the quiet, gentle moments that allow you to escape in a huge capital city like London.If you know where to...
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Positive Christianity in the Third Reich: Including the 28 Theses of the German Christians and Miscellaneous Documents of Cajus FabriciusThe completed book is finally here, nearly quadrupling in size due to the newly added content, containing several primary source documents pertaining to Germany's Third Reich and Christianity, some newly translated out of German, all but one by the same author, Cajus Fabricius.In Positive...
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Polio: An American StoryHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert...
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Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. IIIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish...
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third ReichDavid Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st...
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Panini Legends: A Celebration of the World's Greatest Football Stickers'Panini Legends, by the leading authority on the stickers, Greg Lansdowne, charts the changing appearances of football legends.' - Daily Mail 'I hope somebody gives me this for Christmas...' - Adrian Chiles, BBC Radio 5 Live 'A beautifully illustrated book' - talkSPORT PANINI'S GREATEST...
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Oxford Libraries ArchitectureCurated illustrations of the architectural design and history of the most beautiful libraries in Oxford and a close look at the artistic prowess of the architects responsible. The libraries of the colleges and the University of Oxford are among the finest, but also among...
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Outlaw Tales of Idaho: True Stories Of The Gem State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And CutthroatsFrom Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperadoes in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho introduces you to a state you thought you know--and a West...
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Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on TerrorAn original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror--the greatest case of "we told you so" in modern political history. Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble where the World Trade Center had stood. Surrounded by shouts of...
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Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public LandsThe little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land and manage it primarily for recreation, education, and conservation "A much-needed chronicle of how the American people decided--wisely and democratically--that nearly a third of the nation's land...
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Operation Desert Storm: How Two Young Intelligence Analysts and an Infantry Battalion Changed the War in IraqOperation Desert Storm reveals how two 101st Airborne intelligence soldiers averted disaster during the Gulf War."During Desert Storm the Air Force and the Armor forces were the thunder but the 101st was the lightning." General Norman Schwarzkopf, April, 1991. Camp Eagle II, Saudi ArabiaOperation...
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On the Watchtower: A History of Fire LookoutsApproximately five hundred fire lookouts remain active throughout the United States. The majority of these lookouts are located west of the Mississippi River, but East Coast states continue to staff fire lookouts as well. The states of Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and...
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Once Upon a Russia: Voices From a Vanished EraOnce Upon a Russia: Voices From a Vanished Era gathers over one hundred vivid, personal accounts from foreigners who lived, worked, or wandered through Russia during a time that now feels irretrievably past. Edited by Steven A. Fisher, who shared that journey with the...
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