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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
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy George Takei Paperback Sale price$19.99
The Secret History of the World
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
March: Book One
March: Book One John Lewis Paperback Sale price$14.95
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
March: Book Two
March: Book Two John Lewis Paperback Sale price$19.95
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood David McCullough Paperback Sale price$18.99
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
The Complete Persepolis: 20th Anniversary Edition
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
March: Book Three
March: Book Three John Lewis Paperback Sale price$19.99
Truman
Truman David McCullough Paperback Sale price$26.00
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
Legends of the Samurai: A History of Warriors
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
The Somme
The Somme Peter Hart Paperback Sale price$17.95
Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History
The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
Watergate: A New History
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War C. V. Wedgwood Paperback Sale price$24.95
The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
France: An Adventure History
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever
The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
Exploration Map by Map: From Migrations and Encounters to Voyages and Discoveries
The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century
American Mercenary: The Riveting, High-Risk World of an Elite SEAL Team Operator Turned Hired Gun
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
Dianaworld: An Obsession
Dianaworld: An Obsession Edward White Hardcover Sale price$32.50
The Sun King
The Sun King Nancy Mitford Paperback Sale price$17.95
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
New Rome: The Empire in the East
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Town & Country: The Queen: A Life in Pictures
Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
America, América: A New History of the New World
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
The Family Roe: An American Story
Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
The Invisible Spy: Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America's First Secret Agent of World War II
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
Eisenhower: Soldier and President
The Art of War
The Art of War Sun Tzu Paperback Sale price$15.95
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
Seven Games: A Human History
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
In Blood, Flowers Bloom: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations
A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography (Signed Book)
Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom's Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Home Front
Why War?
Why War? Richard Overy Ph.D. Hardcover Sale price$27.99
Explorers: A New History
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
Extreme North: A Cultural History
O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
John Lewis: A Life
John Lewis: A Life David Greenberg Hardcover Sale price$35.00
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management
A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
Napoleon: A Biography
Napoleon: A Biography Frank McLynn Paperback Sale price$19.99
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War
The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia
How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice
Kent State: An American Tragedy
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
Forgotten Tales of Colorado
Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal
It's Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
The Final Mission of Extortion 17: Special Ops, Helicopter Support, SEAL Team Six, and the Deadliest Day of the U.S. War in Afghanistan
Wild West History of Frontier Colorado, A: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Colorado Women: A History
True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
Tunnels Under Our Feet
Tunnels Under Our Feet Tracy Beach Paperback Sale price$21.95
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
The Emancipation Proclamation, Smithsonian Edition
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Season of Terror: The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March-October 1863
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
A Short History of Denver
Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years
Tales, Trails and Tommyknockers
Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
Denver Memories II: The Early Years and the 1940s
Colorado's Historic Hotels
The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009
Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
One Shot One Kill: One Shot One Kill
A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water
Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them
Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
The Impeachment Diary: Eyewitness to the Removal of a President
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
Molly Brown from Hannibal, Missouri: Her Life in the Gilded Age
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
A People's History of the U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Adventuring with Boldness: The Triumph of the Explorers
Clutter: An Untidy History
The Dust Of Empire: The Race For Mastery In The Asian Heartland
Hollywood of the Rockies: Colorado, the West and America's Film Pioneers
Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck