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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire
FDR
FDR Jean Edward Smith Paperback Sale price$27.00
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom
To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban
Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table Primo Levi Paperback Sale price$20.00
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
Hiroshima
Hiroshima John Hersey Paperback Sale price$9.99
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic
Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914
Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan
Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events that Changed History
Freemasons For Dummies
Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Capitalism: A Ghost Story Arundhati Roy Paperback Sale price$14.95
A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Ride to the Sound of the Guns: The Life of a Cold War Warrior, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Theodore C. Mataxis
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
Amazing Indianapolis
Amazing Indianapolis Ashley Petry Paperback Sale price$22.50
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure
Railroads in the Midwest: An Epic History
An Accidental Villain: A Soldier's Tale of War, Deceit and Exile
U.S. Marine Guidebook
Out of Gaza: A Tale of Love, Exile, and Friendship
New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
Missouri Railroads: A Modern Crossroads 1921-2023
Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles
The Truth About Watergate: A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & Liars
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Greenville
Greenville Carol Taylor Paperback Sale price$24.99
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
George Washington's Momentous Year: Twelve Months that Transformed the Revolution-Vol. 2: Valley Forge to Monmouth, January to July 1778
Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II
Allentown Fairgrounds
Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne
Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
A Little History of the World
The Hundred Years' Trial: Law, Evolution, and the Long Shadow of Scopes v. Tennessee
Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Cascades of the Big Sioux River: A Natural & Cultural History
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The Rights of Indians and Tribes
The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be shared, finalist in the 75th US National Jewish Book Awards
American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again
Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Being Nixon: A Man Divided Evan Thomas Paperback Sale price$24.00
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians
Central European Wars 1918-21: Revolutions and Border Wars in the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ghost Towns of Eastern Idaho: Exploring Boomtowns of the Past and Present
Yugoslavia 1941-44: Anti-Partisan Operations
Land of the Goat: Witchcraft in the Pyrenees
Abandoned Mines of Western Idaho: Quests for the Motherlode
Illustrated History of Kings & Queens of Britain: A Visual Encyclopedia of Every King and Queen of Britain, from Saxon Times through the Tudors and Stuarts to Today.
Pilots and Painted Ladies: 493rd Bomb Squadron and the Air War in the CBI
Summit County's Narrow-Gauge Railroads
Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon: A Living Legacy
The Federalist Papers: The Ideas that Forged the American Constitution
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
True Crime Stories of Fairfield, California
The Man in the Red Coat
The Man in the Red Coat Julian Barnes Hardcover Sale price$35.00
The Rescue of Bat 21
The Rescue of Bat 21 Darrel D. Whitcomb Paperback Sale price$25.95
Dorothy Parker's New York
Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget
Filipinos in the San Fernando Valley
Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
Urban Republican Mayor: My Story
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
The French Quarter: New Orleans' Oldest Neighborhood
A Pictorial Look at the New York City Subway System
Stanwood
Stanwood Karen Prasse Paperback Sale price$24.99
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present: State of Modernity
Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield
Why the Allies Won
Why the Allies Won Richard Overy Ph.D. Paperback Sale price$19.95
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33D United States Colored Troops, Late
King George's War and the Thirty Year Peace: The Third Contest for North America
Faith and Ruin: Exploring the Abandoned Churches in Texas
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
Georgia Jipp: Blizzard Pilot
Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Trotsky: A Biography
Trotsky: A Biography Robert Service Paperback Sale price$30.00
Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany
The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story
Japanese Submarines in World War Two: Hirohito's Silent Hunters
You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
Outlaw Tales of Wyoming: True Stories Of The Cowboy State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire
Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs, and the Sacred
Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
More Moments in Marin History: Familiar Tales and Untold Stories, Volume II
Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe During World War
The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863: Grant's Failed Offensives
The Corinthian War, 395-387 BC: The Twilight of Sparta's Empire
Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War
Legendary Locals of Rockwall
The Hessians
The Hessians Rodney Atwood Paperback Sale price$44.00
The Northwest Coast: Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946-60: Early Cold War armor in Central Europe
Purdue's Female Founders: The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty
Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance
First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives
Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition
Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress
Narrow Boat
Narrow Boat L T C Rolt Paperback Sale price$30.99
Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England
Operation Cleeves, SOEs Forgotten Wartime Tragedy in Thailand
Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown
Empire and Nation: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; Letters from the Federal Farmer
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
A History of Baton Rouge, 1699-1812
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson R. B. Bernstein Paperback Sale price$23.99
FDR on Democracy: The Greatest Speeches and Writings of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Infantry: A Global History
Infantry: A Global History Jeremy Black Hardcover Sale price$34.95
American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley: The Civil War Letters of John H. Black, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Raiding the Rising Sun: The Doolittle Raid-America Strikes Back: An Illustrated Day-By-Day Account
Atatürk: Father of the Republic of Turkey
Caesarian Legionary vs Pompeian Legionary: Rome's Civil War 49-45 BC
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975-90: The ultimate generation of Cold War heavy armor
Achiever: Exam Prep Guide for AP* European History
Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
Stalin's Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre
North of 53°: The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Frontier, 1870-1914
The National Tribune Remembers the Atlanta Campaign: Battles, Skirmishes, Marches, and Camp Life as Recalled by the Union Veterans Themselves
The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World
Abandoned Bodie: Ghost Town Extraordinaire
Space Age Adventures: Over 100 Terrestrial Sites and Out of This World Stories
Sailing with Farragut: The Civil War Recollections of Bartholomew Diggins
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War
Milford
Milford Dave Kenton Paperback Sale price$24.99
A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History
Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
Rains County
Rains County Elaine Nall Bay Paperback Sale price$24.99
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA
Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
Tampa Bay Landmarks and Destinations
Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World
China: A New Cultural History
Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
China's Spies: Beijing's Espionage Offensive
The Odyssey (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
The Nuremberg Trials: The History and Legacy of the Nazi War Crimes Trials After World War II
Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend
Generals in Blue and Generals in Gray
From Last Rites to Bill of Rights: The Miraculous Life and Legacy of James Madison
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
A Gift of Geology: Ancient Egyptian Landscapes and Monuments
The Iliad (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Panzer I & II: Blueprint for Blitzkrieg 1933-1941
Adam Lemp and the Western Brewery
A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323
Mulligan Stew: Stories and Traditions of American Hobos
Coming Alive: My First Fourteen Years in Savannah
How The Hell Did We Get Here?: A Citizen's Guide to the New Cold War and the Rebuilding of Deterrence
And No Birds Sang
And No Birds Sang Farley Mowat Paperback Sale price$19.95
Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity
Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies: Volume 3
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War
Secret Cities of Old South America: Atlantis Reprint Series
Living with No Excuses: The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier
The Great Schism: A Captivating Guide to the Split between the Eastern Christian Churches and the Western Church
A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present
Narrow Boat Painting
Narrow Boat Painting A J Lewery Paperback Sale price$16.99
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929
We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States
Arms And Armour - In Antiquity And The Middle Ages - Also A Descriptive Notice Of Modern Weapons
Herod, King of the Jews
The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights: Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order
The Iliad of Homer: Rage, Glory, and Gods: Experience the Epic Battles of the Iliad
Europe's Long Century: Volume 1: 1900-1945: Society, Politics, and Culture
Allies in Air Power: A History of Multinational Air Operations
Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews?: The Origins of Adolf Hitler's Anti-Semitism and its Outcome
Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King
The Yellowlegs: The Story of the United States Cavalry
Barn Stories: Reflections from a Saratoga County Horse Farm
Born Criminal
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz
Ways of the World for the AP® World History Modern Course Since 1200 C.E.: A Global History with Sources
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution
Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai'i during World War II
Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy
The Sundowners, Pegasus, and Little Butch: Carrier Air Group 11 and the War in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1960-75
The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship
Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West
The Sardinian-Piedmontese Army in the War of the Austrian Succession 1740-1748: Organisation, Uniforms & Equipment Including Flags, Standards & Guidons
An Analysis of Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947
Byrd's Line: A Natural History
The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution
Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past
The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present
Nelson's Pathfinders: A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea Power
Seagoville
Seagoville Billie Frank Phillips Paperback Sale price$24.99
Around Farmersville
Around Farmersville Pansy Hundley Paperback Sale price$24.99
The Heavy Water War: Beating Hitler to the Bomb
The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico
Warfare Beneath the Waves: German U-boat Battles With Allied Convoys, 1940, 1943, and 1945