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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
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
King: A Life
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Paperback Sale price$23.00
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Spare
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
A Promised Land
A Promised Land Barack Obama Paperback Sale price$25.00
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz Henry Oster Paperback Sale price$18.99
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Desperadoes Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-day Black Ops
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic - A Retelling for Our Times
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Story of Russia
The Story of Russia Orlando Figes Paperback Sale price$19.99
The Vietnam War: A Military History
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
The Burning Earth: A History
Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret
The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time
Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse - The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Vietnam: A New History
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II
Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed
1861: The Lost Peace
1861: The Lost Peace Jay Winik Hardcover Sale price$35.00
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy-and Why It Failed
The Queen: Her Life
The Queen: Her Life Andrew Morton Paperback Sale price$19.99
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe
Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush
Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
The Roman Empire Got It Right: From Stoicism to Strapless Bikinis, 413 Genius Innovations and Ideas that Still Matter Today
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Revised and Updated)
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
Mavericks: Life stories and lessons of history's most extraordinary misfits
Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
African Europeans: An Untold History
The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor
The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
The CIA: An Imperial History
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
The Invention of the Jewish People
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
Patriot: A Memoir
Patriot: A Memoir Alexei Navalny Hardcover Sale price$35.00
Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
The Heart of a Great Nation: Timeless Wisdom from Ronald Reagan
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Zhou Enlai: A Life
Zhou Enlai: A Life Jian Chen Hardcover Sale price$39.95
Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War
Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
Lost Denver (Lost)
Lost Denver (Lost) Amy Zimmer Hardcover Sale price$24.99
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies of Queen Victoria's granddaughters
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation-and Created a Legend
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
Gold!: Madness, Murder, and Mayhem in the Colorado Rockies
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
Russia: A Short History
Russia: A Short History Abraham Ascher Paperback Sale price$19.99
A People's History of Scotland
The Book of Samurai: The Fundamental Teachings
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Ten Myths About Israel
Ten Myths About Israel Ilan Pappe Paperback Sale price$19.95
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property
The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives
The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933
HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style
When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition
War With Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
10/7: 100 Human Stories
10/7: 100 Human Stories Lee Yaron Hardcover Sale price$30.00
The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment
Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny
Heydrich: The Face of Evil
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
The Wagner Group: Inside Russia's Mercenary Army
What Is To Be Done?
Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i
The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger
Execute the Office: Essays with Presidents
Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Emperor of the French
Yanks behind the Lines: How the Commission for Relief in Belgium Saved Millions from Starvation during World War I
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