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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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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall JacksonAcclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a provocative analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson's strategies had been adopted. The Civil War pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains one...
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Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside: Treasure and Ghosts in the London ClayA thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers - the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. 'What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of Indiana Jones.' Lucy Worsley June 1912....
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928"A masterly account . . . Kotkin has given us a textured, gripping examination of the foundational years of the man most responsible for the construction of the Soviet state in all its brutal glory." --The New York Times Book Review"This is a very...
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Spooky Great Lakes: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local LorePull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Great Lakes folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and...
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Soviet Space DogsCelebrating the dogs that conquered the final frontier, in ephemera and collectiblesThis book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space program. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted...
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Something Rotten: Land Command in the 21st Century'Something Rotten' points out logical and practical problems with organisations and processes. It challenges the reader as to why such problems exist and persist. It suggests abandoning much overt process; building up human expertise; relying on fewer but better-trained people; and deciding and acting...
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Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906Discover the incredible history of the Smithsonian as it grew to meet the needs of a nation Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world's largest museum and research complex during its first 60 years. The English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson never...
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of JapanA fascinating period in Japanese history recounted by manga's most distinguished authorShowa 1926-1939: A History of Japan lays the groundwork for Eisner award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's historical and autobiographical series about Japanese life in the twentieth century. Depicted against his trademark photorealistic backdrops, Mizuki...
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in LiteratureAn "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works...
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Shakespeare's Greatest LoveRelying on historical and literary evidence hidden in plain sight, Shakespeare's Greatest Love tells the true, uncensored love story of William Shakespeare and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton."Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." --Shakespeare's...
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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. NewtonSeale is a longtime activist and co-founder of The Black Panther Party. This work is his riveting first-person account of the evolution of The Party as a national organization.Author: SealePublisher: Black Classic PressPublished: 11/15/1996Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20dISBN: 9780933121300
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American IncarcerationThis important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers--Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams--along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history. Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin...
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Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII Volume 1This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy...
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Sea Stories: My Life in Special OperationsFollowing the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's...
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Seabeck - And The Surrounding AreaThe author takes you into the forgotten history of the Seabeck area. Discover information about: Crosby, Hite's Center, Hintzville, Camp Union, Lake William Symington, Lake Tahuya, Holly, Miami Beach, Maple Beach, Lone Rock, and Nellita. This book is a must read if you want...
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Russia's Man of War: The Extraordinary Viktor BoutViktor Bout was a warlord's warlord, according to MI6, the US National Security Council and the CIA--a terrorist facilitator, and the world's most prolific arms dealer. They tracked him everywhere, smuggling weapons from North Korea and the former Soviet Union into the world's bloodiest...
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Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating OrganThe fascinating--and often secret--history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut. The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy, often overzealous organ, deliberating on the...
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk RoadsFollow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic...
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century EnglandWitchcraft, astrology, divination, and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At...
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Reformation to Revival, 500 Years of God's Glory: Sixty Revivals, Awakenings and Heaven-Sent Visitations of the Holy SpiritPublished to mark the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. For the past five hundred years God has been pouring out His Spirit, to reform and to revive His Church. Reformation to Revival traces the Divine thread of God's power from Martin Luther of 1517,...
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