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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 Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
With the Old Breed
With the Old Breed E. B. Sledge Paperback Sale price$23.00
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
The Medici
The Medici Paul Strathern Paperback Sale price$18.95
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
The Story of Egypt
The Story of Egypt Joann Fletcher Paperback Sale price$17.95
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack and the Fight for Survival in Early America
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Homage To Catalonia
Homage To Catalonia George Orwell Paperback Sale price$19.99
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
All the President's Men
All the President's Men Carl Bernstein Paperback Sale price$20.00
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy, Volume 3)
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Reagan: His Life and Legend Max Boot Hardcover Sale price$45.00
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Diana: Her True Story--in Her Own Words
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
The Way of the Gladiator (Inspiration for the Gladiator Films)
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
Robert E. Lee: A Life
Robert E. Lee: A Life Allen C. Guelzo Paperback Sale price$24.00
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War
The Order: Inside America's Racist Underground
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
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush
The Blood of Emmett Till
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors
Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
War
War Sebastian Junger Paperback Sale price$19.99
Bibi: My Story
Bibi: My Story Benjamin Netanyahu Paperback Sale price$23.99
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Five Days in November: In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
Queens of the Age of Chivalry
The World: A Family History of Humanity
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
Northmen: The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241
The Maya
The Maya Michael D. Coe Paperback Sale price$31.95
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Outmaneuvered: America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
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
George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
We Dared to Fly: Dangerous Secret Missions During the Vietnam War
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
The Crimean War: A History
Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S.
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II
The English and Their History
Ireland: A Short History
Ireland: A Short History Joseph Coohill Paperback Sale price$18.95
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
The Village of Ben Suc
The Village of Ben Suc Jonathan Schell Paperback Sale price$16.95
From the Reservation to Washington: The Rise of Charles Curtis
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March-October 1943
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel
Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House
The War Memoirs
The War Memoirs Charles de Gaulle Hardcover Sale price$34.99
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
The French Revolution
The French Revolution Ian Davidson Paperback Sale price$17.95
Civil War Stories: 40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States
New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas
A Colorado History, 10th Edition
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage
Year 2000: The Inside Story of Y2K Panic and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
We Gather Together: The True Story of Thanksgiving and the Woman Who Fought to Make It an American Holiday
Pueblo
Pueblo Victoria Miller Paperback Sale price$24.99
The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise
Forged in War: A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
LGBTQ Denver
LGBTQ Denver Phil Nash Paperback Sale price$24.99
Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother's Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter's Nightmare
Remembering the Civil War: The Conflict as Told by Those Who Lived It
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn
Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
Colorado Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini, 1335-1410
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies
The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
Crescent Dawn: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Age
Good Time Girls of Colorado: A Red-Light History of the Centennial State
Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas
Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life
In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History of Denver's Manhattan Beach
The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
From Sand Creek to Summit Springs: Colorado's Indian Wars
Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome
Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood's Most Notorious Bordellos
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
Boom and Bust Colorado: From the 1859 Gold Rush to the 2020 Pandemic
The King: The Life of Charles III
Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945
What Lies Beneath Colorado: Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards
The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Classic
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle over the Truth about the Mythic Old West
Candy Men
Candy Men Patrick Murphy Paperback Sale price$22.50
Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History
Ranching Women of Colorado: 17 Legendary Ladies
England's Forgotten Past: The Unsung Heroes and Heroines, Valiant Kings, Great Battles and Other Generally Overlooked Episodes in That Nation's Glorious History
Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West
Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-the-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American President
Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic
The Greatest Stories Never Told: Snipers
The Devil's Playground: Inside America's Defense of the Deadly Korean DMZ
For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us about Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice
The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde
The Line Riders: The Border Patrol, Prohibition, and the Liquor War on the Rio Grande
Curse of Interesting Times: A Vietnam-Era Memoir
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II
Fortune's Frenzy: A California Gold Rush Odyssey
Leadville
Leadville Stephen M Voynick Paperback Sale price$14.00
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
Hometown
Hometown Peter Davis Paperback Sale price$20.99
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Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest Withers
Winter 8000: Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season
Painting War: George Plante's Combat Art in World War II
Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy
The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq