American History

The most intriguing 'what if' of the American Civil War presents an exciting and graphic recreation of alternate possibilities. Everyone with an interest in America's greatest battle comes up against...

A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered...

A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu. When...

The Heart of Hell is the untold story of the crew of Landing Craft Infantry 449. Based on 130 exclusive interviews with sailors who survived the battle, the families of...

On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The...

This book is a chronology of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the famous victory drive of the Seventh Army. It starts at the Worms' Rhine bridgehead...

Gunfire broke the morning silence on July 1, 1863, as Confederate General Henry Heth pushed his division down Chamberburg Pike toward Gettysburg. One half mile west of town on a...

Early in 1863 General Grant was under a cloud, blamed for heavy Union losses at Shiloh, called an undependable drunkard by his detractors. As Grant moved toward Vicksburg, the Lincoln...

There are few battles in the sometimes bloody history of the expansion of the United States in North American during the Indian Wars that are more famous than Little Bighorn....

A rousing and meticulously researched account of the most notorious battle in American history - and the first to incorporate important new findings. In June of 1876, on a desolate...

The 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (FIW) was sent to Korea in December 1950 expressly to deal with the threat posed by the all-new MiG-15 fighter that had made its combat...

As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders...

State militias were among the first troops to respond to the outbreak of the Civil War. Those who answered the call to arms represented a cross-section of the country, both...

Both the cavalry and the artillery played critical roles in the Civil War. The uniforms of horsemen and cannoneers resembled those of the infantry but differed in key respects, such...

This is a modern-day, photographic re-enactment of scenes from the American Civil War. It features: 56 hand-tinted photographs and over 100 eye-witness accounts.

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native...

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and...

Strawbery Banke Museum is a rich core sample of an ever-changing America. The ten-acre museum campus, New Hampshire's earliest neighborhood, began as a British plantation on a tidal inlet. Abandoned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the summer of 1957, one of the most remarkable religious events in American history unfolded beneath the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; initials penned on the front cover and fep. Some silverfish damage on the rear cover....

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the sweltering nights of August 8th and 9th, 1969, a series of savage murders in the Hollywood Hills shocked the...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhen the skies over Europe and North Africa became the crucible of the Second World War,...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj; slightly discoloured boards; At the intersection of labour politics and international power,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: slight lean to book. From the gilded excess of the Gilded Age to the smoke-filled back rooms of mid-century American power, Born...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj; markings on the fep. In an era defined by Cold War tensions and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, when the world held its breath and the fate of nations hung on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew American writers have lived as loudly, as controversially, or as brilliantly as Norman Mailer — and Hilary Mills' Mailer: A Biography captures every...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and colonial history stands a work of formidable scholarly ambition: N....

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent year of 1788, a fleet of eleven ships...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOn the freezing night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: hinges cracked, no loose pages; Step into the timeless world of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the smoldering wreckage of Pearl Harbor to the thunderous naval clashes across thousands of miles of open ocean, The...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the French Revolution to the Space Age, The Student's Guide to World History Since 1789...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the autumn of 1960, America stood at a crossroads, and...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the crossroads of civic idealism and political reality stands American Democracy in...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.In the closing months of 1943, with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance,...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At a time when the American Civil War produced commanders of myth and legend, one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn October 1962, the world stood on the precipice of nuclear annihilation as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of power and invention, The Knowledgeable State argues that the mastery of technology has been the defining force behind modern statecraft,...

Edition: First Australian ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe American frontier crackles with danger and daring in Ned in the Blockhouse, Edward S. Ellis's gripping tale of survival and...

Edition: First Australian Ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged wilderness of the American frontier, a young Shawnee warrior of extraordinary skill and virtue must navigate treacherous mountain...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped djIn an era of postwar prosperity, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent aftermath of America's most devastating political killings, Assassination and Political Violence stands as a landmark document —...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped djIn the volatile political landscape of mid-twentieth-century Latin America, the clash between military ambition and...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of ambition, power, and ruthless capitalism stands one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; some stains on the cover; internally sound, clean textWhen duty calls, preparation is everything — and The...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew campaigns in military history have been studied with such enduring fascination as Stonewall Jackson's legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: fep clipped; moisture damage on prelims. In the shadowy corridors of Allied intelligence during World...