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Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death
Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages! Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death', the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades....
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
In 1903, a renowned naturalist joined the President of the United States for a two-week camping trip to Yosemite. John Burroughs offers delightful reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt and their shared...
Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...
War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution
"Robust and focused" - The Wall Street Journal "History at its insightful and mesmerizing best" - Nathaniel Philbrick Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how...
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy,
A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed...
Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...
Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil 'deep state'?...
PLAINS INDIANS
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That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest
The book titled That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest by the author John Allan Wyeth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
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Explores the style, taste, beauty, and politeness in American architecture, furnishings, fiction, and other areas after 1720, and examines how these concerns changed a large segment of the American culture.
History Matters
In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays-many published here for the first time-Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided...
George S. Patton
George S. Patton Jr. was the iconic American field commander of World War II, and widely regarded as the US Army's finest practitioner of mechanized warfare. This title examines Patton's...
End of Days: The Assassination of President Kennedy
Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot, told by James Swanson, author of the New York...
The History of the American Civil War 1861-1865
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A chronological overview of one of the most devastating and dramatic events in American military history, this title analyses each of the major battles in the conflict, including Gettysburg, Chattanooga...
Central Park: An Anthology
A wild night outdoors with Bill Buford. A football tradition with Nathaniel Rich. A jog around the reservoir with Mark Helprin as he "protects" Jacqueline Onassis from imagined harm. The...
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year "A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel." -- The New...
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America: Winner of the 2025
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Winner of the Bancroft Prize 2025 Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025 For...
Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell's Spy
Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...
Flashback: Echoes from a Hard War
Seven young Australian soldiers find themselves caught up in the madness and brutality of the Vietnam War. one dies, six survive after being wounded - only to find there are...
American History: A Survey
The book titled American History: A Survey by the author Richard Nelson Current. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell's Spy
Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...
Eisenhower
Before Dwight Eisenhower became president of the United States, he had a brilliant and successful career in the military. John Wukovits reveals Eisenhower's contributions to American warfare, including his advocacy...
Decision Points
President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography,...
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National
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From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition , and In the Hurricane's Eye-- t he riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick . Winner...
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...
The Void, Grid & Sign
What Barry Lopez did in expanding our vision of the frozen North in Arctic Dreams, William Fox has done in broadening our perceptions of the desert expanses of the West's...
Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U. S.
Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British...
The Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on
Instant New York Times Bestseller A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer...
Patton's Third Army at War
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The book titled Patton's Third Army at War by the author George Forty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Korea That Was & Three Short Stories
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The book titled Korea That Was & Three Short Stories by the author Jerry M Jackis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Douglas Macarthur: American Warrior
Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by...
Digging Up Butch and Sundance
"It's hard to imagine even the most chair-bound stay-at-home not enjoying this great adventure. Tracking down these odd bandidos with Meadows is lots of fun." - Tony Hillerman. "What a...
Unholy Babylon: Secret History of Saddam's War
This book aims to demonstrate that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2nd August 1990 was the logical conclusion to 20 years of diplomatic duplicity, greed and corruption, particularly on...
Understanding Vietnam
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World , every seat is a good one." --Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post " The Free World sparkles....
A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA
A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their...
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero
Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less...
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
Produced to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, on view 24 September 2009 - 24 January 2010, this catalogue will explore the dramatic events surrounding the Spanish assault...
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case
If you enjoyed the chilling reading of In Cold Blood and were at the edge of your seat while watching Oliver Stone's JFK , you'll love this investigative look into...
John Adams
A biography of the extraordinary man who became the second president of the United States, this book traces John Adams' adventurous life and spirited rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and encompasses...
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages...
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in...
Three Days in January
The blockbuster #1 national bestseller, now updated with a new preface and postcript: Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of...
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a
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New York Times Bestseller "This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier's gift to us. From Roosevelt's resilience over tragedy to his heroism in war, from his midnight rambles as...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife
'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Ethel sings...