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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
A Little History of the United States
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Republic Of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
A Little History of the World
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Napoleon: A Life
Napoleon: A Life Andrew Roberts Paperback Sale price$26.00
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Paperback Sale price$24.00
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
These Truths: A History of the United States
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
China in Ten Words
China in Ten Words Yu Hua Paperback Sale price$19.00
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Strategy: A History
Strategy: A History Lawrence Freedman Paperback Sale price$28.99
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Common Sense
Common Sense Thomas Paine Paperback Sale price$14.00
The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
On Grand Strategy
On Grand Strategy John Lewis Gaddis Paperback Sale price$19.00
China: A History
China: A History John Keay Paperback Sale price$24.99
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
Jerusalem: The Biography
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples William McNeill Paperback Sale price$19.00
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paper: Paging Through History
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway Craig L. Symonds Paperback Sale price$22.99
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (National Book Award Winner)
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Don't Know Much About® History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (LA Times Book Prize Winner)
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
Reagan: The Life
Reagan: The Life H. W. Brands Paperback Sale price$27.00
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Hamilton: Selected Writings
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Silk: A World History
Silk: A World History Aarathi Prasad Hardcover Sale price$32.50
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union
A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
The Good Fight
The Good Fight Shirley Chisholm Paperback Sale price$17.99
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
A Little History of the World
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
Who's Your Founding Father?: One Man's Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Zionism: A Very Short Introduction
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Great Plains
Great Plains Ian Frazier Paperback Sale price$21.00
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (LA Times Book Prize Winner)
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
The Great War and Modern Memory
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr. Hardcover Sale price$19.99
Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Citizen: My Life After the White House
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
Medieval Europe
Medieval Europe Chris Wickham Paperback Sale price$20.00
American History: A Very Short Introduction
Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Josephine Baker's Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
Unbroken Bonds of Battle: A Modern Warriors Book of Heroism, Patriotism, and Friendship
Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Vigilance Is Not Enough: A History of United States Intelligence
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Mediterranean Sweep: The USAAF in the Italian Campaign
Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
Common Sense
Common Sense Thomas Paine Paperback Sale price$4.00
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Vergil: The Poet's Life
Vergil: The Poet's Life Sarah Ruden Paperback Sale price$20.00
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist)
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
Blaze of Light: The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
Paris: A Short History
Paris: A Short History Jeremy Black Hardcover Sale price$24.95
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War
Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy
A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything
Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
Hunting: A Cultural History
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings
The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy
Facing Death in Cambodia
Facing Death in Cambodia Peter Maguire Hardcover Sale price$50.00
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War