History
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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New Hampshire Robert Frost 1923This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Nelson Mandela: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer...
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My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham LincolnThe scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic...
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My Life as an ExplorerSven Hedin inherited the steel sinews of his Norse ancestors. During his many years of exploration he frequently put his physical capacities to extreme tests. He trained his constitution to stand an elevation of 19,000 feet above sea level and a temperature of 37...
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Museum ABCMuseum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration. Children...
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary MeaA staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser's Much Depends on Dinner is a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat, and a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways...
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Most Secret: Mi9 Escape and Evasion DevicesPublished for the first time since its creation in 1942, this 'most secret' facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture and escape from prisoner of war camps. From silk maps designed to...
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More Than a Few Good MenMore Than A Few Good Men tells the compelling soldiers story of Robert J. Driver's life from childhood to his retirement from the United States Marine Corps. Driver witnessed and was part of many extreme, and sometimes chilling, events. These actions come to life...
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Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts--And AmericaThis deeply-reported narrative illuminates the battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Boy Scouts of America, a decades-long struggle led by teenagers, parents, activists, and everyday Americans. Weaving in his own experience as a scout and journalist, Mike De Socio's Morally Straight tells a story...
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Mongols on the Silk Road: Trade, Transportation, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Mongol EmpireStretching across Asia and into eastern Europe and northern Africa, the Silk Road opened the world to new ideas, products, and cultures. Because the Mongols controlled so much of the territory across this network of pathways, trade between east and west flourished, spreading silk,...
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Modern War in an Ancient Land: The United States Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Volume II: The United States Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014. Volume IThese volumes, prepared by the Operation Enduring Freedom Study Group, present an operational-level narrative of how the U.S. Army formed, trained, deployed, and employed its forces in Afghanistan from October 2001 to December 2014. To write this history, the study group embarked on an...
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Miracle of the Desert: A History of the Thomas Ward and Surrounding CommunitiesAuthor: Thomas H. WilliamsPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 01/25/2013Pages: 704Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69dISBN: 9781462873708This title is not returnable
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Military Dogs of World War II"Anyone wanting to add an excellent history book detailing the use of dogs in military service during World War II with the allied and axis militaries to their personal library will be pleased with this informative and interesting book." - ArmoramaAnimals, especially dogs, have...
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Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin AmericaDo Third World countries benefit from having large militaries, or does this impede their development? Kirk Bowman uses statistical analysis to demonstrate that militarization has had a particularly malignant impact in this region. For his quantitative comparison he draws on longitudinal data for a...
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Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely SpaceAuthor: Keely OrgemanPublisher: Yale University Art GalleryPublished: 11/28/2023Pages: 112Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.50h x 8.80w x 1.00dISBN: 9780300273373
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Michelin Map Battle of Normandy 102Historic WWII reproduction map. A detailed map of Normandy at a scale of 1:200,000 showing the main sites of the summer 1944 battle. This map is an antique-feeling reproduction of the map originally published by Michelin in 1947. The main map includes place names...
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Men with Black Faces: The Tears of the Human WormsAbout the BookMen with Black Faces chronicles the lives of coal miners, their difficult lives, and family struggles from 1880 through the Great Depression. As you learn the true stories of everyday life in the mining camps, the disaster and death, the great love...
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Memoir of Keopuolani, Late Queen of the Sandwich Islands ..This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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MeditationsThe twelve books of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. With introduction and glossary.Author: Meric Casaubon, Marcus Aurelius AntoninusPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 02/11/2015Pages: 182Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42dISBN: 9781508435440This title is not returnable
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Marked Man: Frank Serpico's Inside Battle Against Police Corruption1971. Brooklyn, New York. Undercover cop Frank Serpico is knocking on a drug dealer's door. His partners are there to back him up, but when the door opens, he's staring down the barrel of a gun--and his partners are nowhere to be found. For...
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