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The Art of War (Signature Classics)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
Puerto Rico: A National History
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Federalist Papers
History of the World Map by Map
History of the World Map by Map DK Hardcover Sale price$50.00
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
The Lessons of History
The Lessons of History Will Durant Paperback Sale price$17.99
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
Bolivar: American Liberator
Bolivar: American Liberator Marie Arana Paperback Sale price$23.00
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
The Korean War: A History
The Korean War: A History Bruce Cumings Paperback Sale price$22.00
One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 Bill Bryson Paperback Sale price$22.00
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
Woman, Life, Freedom
Woman, Life, Freedom Marjane Satrapi Paperback Sale price$35.95
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
The World War II Book
The World War II Book DK Hardcover Sale price$29.99
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding
The World War I Book
The World War I Book DK Hardcover Sale price$29.99
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
España: A Brief History of Spain
Latin America Diaries: The Sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789 - 955
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America's Independence
Eleanor
Eleanor David Michaelis Paperback Sale price$21.00
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir
History: The Definitive Visual Guide
History: The Definitive Visual Guide DK Hardcover Sale price$60.00
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Lincoln Speeches
Lincoln Speeches Abraham Lincoln Paperback Sale price$15.00
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (B&N Exclusive Edition)
Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Nuclear War: A Scenario Annie Jacobsen Hardcover Sale price$30.00
We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy's Iconic Aircraft Carrier
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
Pakistan: A Hard Country
Pakistan: A Hard Country Anatol Lieven Paperback Sale price$23.99
A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia: Multiculturalism and Prosperity: The Shared History of Two Southeast Asian Tigers
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
The Shortest History of France: From Roman Gaul to Revolution and Cultural Radiance - A Global Story for Our Times
Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport
The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons: Three Kings and a History of Britain at the Dawn of the Viking Age
Crockett: The Real-Life Adventures of the Frontier Legend
Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
The Northwomen: Untold Stories From the Other Half of the Viking World
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad
Palestine
Palestine Joe Sacco Hardcover Sale price$34.99
To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen
Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
Pancho Villa: A Revolutionary Life
Timelines of World History
Timelines of World History DK Hardcover Sale price$40.00
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality
Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
The Roads to Rome: A History of Imperial Expansion
Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA
This America: The Case for the Nation
The Fifties: An Underground History
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of the Anglo-Saxons and the Rise of the Normans
Clay: A Human History
The Traitor of Arnhem: The Untold Story of WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment that Changed History Forever
Rogue Agent: From Secret Plots to Psychological Warfare: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockhart
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
Inside the Reagan White House: A Front-Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for Today
India: A Short History
India: A Short History Andrew Robinson Paperback Sale price$16.95
The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
Aquanaut: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy Hardcover Sale price$27.99
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949, Revised Edition
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020
The Siege of Loyalty House: A Story of the English Civil War
Rise to Greatness, Volume 3: Realm (1949-2017): The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
The Army that Never Was: George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude
Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression-One Song at a Time
The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Terrorism
The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
The Irish Difference: The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence
Air Force Handbook AFH 1 Airman February 2025
Saudi Arabia: A Modern History
On this Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War's Deadliest Battle
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
Karl Marx in America
Karl Marx in America Andrew Hartman Hardcover Sale price$39.00
Patriots from the Barrio: The Story of Company E, 141st Infantry: The Only All Mexican American Army Unit in World War II
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
The Times That Try Men's Souls: The Adams, the Quincys, and the Battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution
In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
The U.S. Constitution for Everyone: Features All 27 Amendments
That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did NOT Kill JFK
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
Empire: A New History of the World
Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany
Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age
A Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America
Discovering Bhutan: Land of Gross National Happiness
All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe
Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution
Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Colorado History
Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century: Documents of Hope and Resistance
A War of Their Own: FULRO: The Other National Liberation Front, Vietnam 1955-75
North Country Captives: Selected Narratives of Indian Captivity from Vermont and New Hampshire
Russia: Myths and Realities
The Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
The Myth of "Bloody Mary": A Biography of Queen Mary I of England
Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
Thinking the Twentieth Century
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Enemy Coast Ahead - Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson
African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa
Arrow Points of Texas and Its Borderlands
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen
Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman
Rise to Greatness, Volume 2: Dominion (1867-1949): The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present
Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village
Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace-and What Lies Ahead
Yugoslavia and Greece 1940-41: The Axis' aerial assault in the Balkans
It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
The Eleven Days of Christmas: America¿s Last Vietnam Battle
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show
Communism: A History
Communism: A History Richard Pipes Paperback Sale price$18.00
Leuthen: Great Battles
Leuthen: Great Battles Thomas Otte Hardcover Sale price$24.99
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
US Cold War Aircraft Carriers: Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise Classes
For the Unremembered: A Journey of Reflection into Cape Cod's Connection to Slavery
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance
The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
State Capitalism and World Revolution
The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great
Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution
Abandoned Colorado: A History Told in Ruins
Around Canandaigua
Around Canandaigua Arcadia Publishing Paperback Sale price$24.99
Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
The Roman Occupation of Iberia: The Battles for Hispania, the Jewel in Rome's Crown
The Modern British Army: Volume 1: The Path to a Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance
Mesoamerican History & Mythology: Aztec, Inca, Maya, Toltec, Zapotec & Central American Myths, Legends, Mysteries & History Uncovered
This Noble Land: My Vision for America
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Murder in the Garden: Famous Crimes of Early Fresno County
Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia
Bandera County
Bandera County Frontier Times Museum Paperback Sale price$24.99
The Green Hornet Street Car Disaster
We Came to Rebuild New Orleans: Stories of the Hurricane Katrina Volunteers
Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine
Queen Elizabeth II: An Oral History
Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State
The History of Switzerland
The History of Switzerland John Wilson Paperback Sale price$21.99
My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation
On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy
If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley
It Never Happened, Volume 1: U.S. Air Force UFO Cover-up Revealed
Hushed Up History: (Volume 1)
A History of Niagara Falls
Desert Warfare: Being The Chronicle Of The Eastern Soudan Campaign. With Official Maps
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey Rupert C. Lewis Paperback Sale price$15.00
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup Paperback Sale price$19.95
Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts
The Mystery of the Great Pyramid: Traditions concerning it and its Connection with the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery, Second Edition: Inuit Testimony
World War I: The Definitive Visual History
The Great War: Myth and Memory
The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Becoming Lincoln
Becoming Lincoln William W. Freehling Hardcover Sale price$29.95
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
This Country of Ours
This Country of Ours H. E. Marshall Hardcover Sale price$29.99
The Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank Case Leonard Dinnerstein Paperback Sale price$36.95
Witness in Philadelphia
Witness in Philadelphia Florence Mars Paperback Sale price$30.00