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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
King: A Life
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Paperback Sale price$23.00
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
A Promised Land
A Promised Land Barack Obama Paperback Sale price$25.00
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience
The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack and the Fight for Survival in Early America
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
The Way of the Gladiator (Inspiration for the Gladiator Films)
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy, Volume 3)
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
Diana: Her True Story--in Her Own Words
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy-and Why It Failed
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Desperadoes Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-day Black Ops
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II
Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret
Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
Northmen: The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
The Invention of the Jewish People
A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
Queens of the Age of Chivalry
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
Mavericks: Life stories and lessons of history's most extraordinary misfits
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation-and Created a Legend
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
The Roman Empire Got It Right: From Stoicism to Strapless Bikinis, 413 Genius Innovations and Ideas that Still Matter Today
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Patriot: A Memoir
Patriot: A Memoir Alexei Navalny Hardcover Sale price$35.00
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S.
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
The Crimean War: A History
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World
The Heart of a Great Nation: Timeless Wisdom from Ronald Reagan
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies of Queen Victoria's granddaughters
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution
Zhou Enlai: A Life
Zhou Enlai: A Life Jian Chen Hardcover Sale price$39.95
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire
Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil
We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas
Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
10/7: 100 Human Stories
10/7: 100 Human Stories Lee Yaron Hardcover Sale price$30.00
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother's Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter's Nightmare
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933
Ten Myths About Israel
Ten Myths About Israel Ilan Pappe Paperback Sale price$19.95
Russia: A Short History
Russia: A Short History Abraham Ascher Paperback Sale price$19.99
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
A People's History of Scotland
War With Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
The Book of Samurai: The Fundamental Teachings
In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz
The King: The Life of Charles III
The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style
Heydrich: The Face of Evil
Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome
Gold!: Madness, Murder, and Mayhem in the Colorado Rockies
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny
The Wagner Group: Inside Russia's Mercenary Army
The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property
The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i
Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger
The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment
Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy
Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Emperor of the French