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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
The Republic Of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Paperback Sale price$23.00
Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Napoleon: A Life
Napoleon: A Life Andrew Roberts Paperback Sale price$29.00
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Paperback Sale price$24.00
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Grant
Grant Ron Chernow Paperback Sale price$25.00
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
These Truths: A History of the United States
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Strategy: A History
Strategy: A History Lawrence Freedman Paperback Sale price$28.99
The Coming of the Third Reich
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Common Sense
Common Sense Thomas Paine Paperback Sale price$14.00
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
On Grand Strategy
On Grand Strategy John Lewis Gaddis Paperback Sale price$20.00
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
The Third Reich in Power
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples William McNeill Paperback Sale price$19.00
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
The First World War
The First World War John Keegan Paperback Sale price$23.00
Paper: Paging Through History
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (National Book Award Winner)
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
The First World War
The First World War Hew Strachan Paperback Sale price$21.00
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Hamilton: Selected Writings
Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Memoir
The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
The Lives of the Caesars
The Lives of the Caesars Suetonius Hardcover Sale price$35.00
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
The Penguin Book of Witches
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Life in a Medieval City
Life in a Medieval City Frances Gies Paperback Sale price$18.99
When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
American History: A Very Short Introduction
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance
Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution
Indestructible: The Unforgettable Memoir of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
Mediterranean Sweep: The USAAF in the Italian Campaign
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe 1648-1815
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
V13: Chronicle of a Trial
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
The Portable Frederick Douglass
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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
Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy
My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments