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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
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A Little History of the World
Hiroshima
Hiroshima John Hersey Paperback Sale price$16.00
The Witches: Salem, 1692
The Witches: Salem, 1692 Stacy Schiff Paperback Sale price$21.99
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
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life Stacy Schiff Paperback Sale price$21.99
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
China in Ten Words
China in Ten Words Yu Hua Paperback Sale price$19.00
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
On War
On War Carl von Clausewitz Paperback Sale price$15.00
China: A History
China: A History John Keay Paperback Sale price$24.99
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Jerusalem: The Biography
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
My Grandfather's Son
My Grandfather's Son Clarence Thomas Paperback Sale price$19.99
Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza
1812: The War That Forged a Nation
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway Craig L. Symonds Paperback Sale price$22.99
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (LA Times Book Prize Winner)
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Don't Know Much About® History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
Agent Sonya: The Spy Next Door
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
Reagan: The Life
Reagan: The Life H. W. Brands Paperback Sale price$27.00
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley Paperback Sale price$23.00
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
Papillon
Papillon Henri Charriere Paperback Sale price$19.99
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Letter from Birmingham Jail
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You To Know
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
Silk: A World History
Silk: A World History Aarathi Prasad Hardcover Sale price$32.50
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (New Edition)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners
The Second World War
The Second World War Antony Beevor Paperback Sale price$29.99
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
American Heroes
American Heroes James Patterson Hardcover Sale price$32.50
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Gallipoli
Gallipoli Alan Moorehead Paperback Sale price$19.99
Congo: The Epic History of a People
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
A Little History of the World
Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr. Hardcover Sale price$19.99
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Zionism: A Very Short Introduction
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Good Fight
The Good Fight Shirley Chisholm Paperback Sale price$17.99
The Neverending Empire: The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
How the States Got Their Shapes
Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11
Unbroken Bonds of Battle: A Modern Warriors Book of Heroism, Patriotism, and Friendship
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (LA Times Book Prize Winner)
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Great Plains
Great Plains Ian Frazier Paperback Sale price$21.00
Medieval Europe
Medieval Europe Chris Wickham Paperback Sale price$20.00
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Josephine Baker's Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Vigilance Is Not Enough: A History of United States Intelligence
Great Society: A New History
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome Tacitus Paperback Sale price$19.00
Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
Common Sense
Common Sense Thomas Paine Paperback Sale price$5.00
Citizen: My Life After the White House
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
The Campaigns of Alexander
The Campaigns of Alexander Arrian Paperback Sale price$18.00
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Blaze of Light: The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient
Unleashed
Unleashed Boris Johnson Hardcover Sale price$40.00
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Who's Your Founding Father?: One Man's Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist)
The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War
Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
Vergil: The Poet's Life
Vergil: The Poet's Life Sarah Ruden Paperback Sale price$20.00
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
Paris: A Short History
Paris: A Short History Jeremy Black Hardcover Sale price$24.95
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and The Path to Victory
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
Hunting: A Cultural History
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil
Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes
Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
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
W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History