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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz Henry Oster Paperback Sale price$18.99
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic - A Retelling for Our Times
The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse - The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation
Vietnam: A New History
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
The Complete Persepolis: 20th Anniversary Edition
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
The Vietnam War: A Military History
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
The Story of Russia
The Story of Russia Orlando Figes Paperback Sale price$19.99
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
The Burning Earth: A History
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War C. V. Wedgwood Paperback Sale price$24.95
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Dianaworld: An Obsession
Dianaworld: An Obsession Edward White Hardcover Sale price$32.50
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
America, América: A New History of the New World
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess
The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
France: An Adventure History
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
1861: The Lost Peace
1861: The Lost Peace Jay Winik Hardcover Sale price$35.00
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
American Mercenary: The Riveting, High-Risk World of an Elite SEAL Team Operator Turned Hired Gun
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
Town & Country: The Queen: A Life in Pictures
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
The Invisible Spy: Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America's First Secret Agent of World War II
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
African Europeans: An Untold History
The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
The Family Roe: An American Story
The CIA: An Imperial History
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Why War?
Why War? Richard Overy Ph.D. Hardcover Sale price$27.99
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
Seven Games: A Human History
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
The Art of War
The Art of War Sun Tzu Paperback Sale price$15.95
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale
A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography (Signed Book)
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal
Extreme North: A Cultural History
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
In Blood, Flowers Bloom: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Explorers: A New History
The Emancipation Proclamation, Smithsonian Edition
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
Kent State: An American Tragedy
How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice
When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition
Lost Denver (Lost)
Lost Denver (Lost) Amy Zimmer Hardcover Sale price$24.99
The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Napoleon: A Biography
Napoleon: A Biography Frank McLynn Paperback Sale price$19.99
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
Tunnels Under Our Feet
Tunnels Under Our Feet Tracy Beach Paperback Sale price$21.95
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
It's Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
The Final Mission of Extortion 17: Special Ops, Helicopter Support, SEAL Team Six, and the Deadliest Day of the U.S. War in Afghanistan
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Tales, Trails and Tommyknockers
A Short History of Denver
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water
Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine
What Is To Be Done?
Execute the Office: Essays with Presidents
The Dust Of Empire: The Race For Mastery In The Asian Heartland
The Impeachment Diary: Eyewitness to the Removal of a President
Instructions For Serjeant-Instructors of Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers In Regard to The Care, Inspection &c Of Martini-Henry, Martini-Metford, and Martini-Enfield Arms 1896
Race to the Moonrise - An Ancient Journey
Boldfaced Lies
Boldfaced Lies Charlene Porter Paperback Sale price$14.99
Adventuring with Boldness: The Triumph of the Explorers
Clutter: An Untidy History