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The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New His...

William I. Hitchcock

Americans are justly proud of the role the United States played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of the Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and rest...

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Published: Dec 2008

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty a...

Adam Hochschild

Award-winning author Adam Hochschild explores the First World War with a particular focus on the conflict between the critics and the supporters of the war.

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Published: May 2011

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of th...

David Hoffman

This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. During the Cold W...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The W...

James Holland

For seven decades, our understanding of World War II has been shaped by a standard narrative built on conventional wisdom, propaganda, the dramatic but narrow experiences of soldiers on the ground, and an early generation of historian...

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Published: Feb 2016

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington

Jonathan Horn

The riveting true story of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington's family but turned by war against Washington's crowning achievement, the Union. On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied ...

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Published: Jan 2015

Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS ...

James Hornfischer

Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston in the Dutch East Indies during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slave...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at T...

James Hornfischer

Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and mark...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Little Red Guard

Wenguang Huang

n 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a city in central China, at a time wh...

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Published: Aug 2012

Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson...

Steve Inskeep

A thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American historyFive decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a c...

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Published: May 2015

Abundance of Valor: Resistance, Liber...

Will Irwin

Retired U.S. Special Forces colonel Will Irwin presents a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of the World War II operation known as "Market Garden," a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory and the largest air...

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Published: Mar 2010

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret Hi...

Annie Jacobsen

*The USA Today bestseller*Surprise... your target.Kill... your enemy.Vanish... without a trace.From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.When diplomacy fails, and war is unwis...

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Published: May 2019

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's ...

Lyndon B. Johnson

Reaching for Glory lets us eavesdrop on LBJ's private, often tortured thoughts during the most crucial year of his presidency -- when his dreams of being hailed as the equal of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were destroyed by...

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Published: Nov 2001

Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower...

Jonathan W. Jordan

The true story of the friendship--and rivalry--among the greatest American generals of World War II. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton, and General Omar N. Bradley engineered the Allied conquest t...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Insurgents: David Petraeus and th...

Fred Kaplan

Based on previously unavailable documents and interviews with more than one hundred key players, including General David Petraeus, The Insurgents unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanis...

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Published: Jan 2013

The Ship That Wouldn't Die: The Saga ...

Don Keith

In May 1942, Admiral Jack Fletcher's Task Force 17 closed in for the war's first major clash with the Japanese Navy. The Neosho, a vitally important tanker, was escorted by a destroyer, the Sims. The ships were attacked by Japanese di...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Liberator: One World War II Soldi...

Alex Kershaw

The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - f...

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Published: Nov 2012

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New...

Brian Kilmeade

Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, now with an afterword delving into Jackson's influence on later U.S. Presidents.The War of ...

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Published: Mar 2019

Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: T...

Brian Kilmeade

The heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In his now-trademark style, Brian Kilmeade brings alive one of the...

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Published: Nov 2019

Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Na...

David King

The Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and t...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys

Dean King

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and featur...

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Published: Aug 2013

D-Day with the Screaming Eagles

George Koskimaki

In the predawn darkness of D-Day, an elite fighting force struck the first blows against Hitler's Fortress Europe. Braving a hail of enemy gunfire and mortars, bold invaders from the sky descended into the hedgerow country and swarmed...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Go...

Herbert Krosney

This codex–one of the greatest discoveries in Judeo-Christian archaeology–did not head straight to a museum, or even to the library of a rich collector. The gospel's removal from its burial place was just the beginning of a bizarr...

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Published: May 2006

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apo...

Robert Kurson

The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers.“Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 ...

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Published: Apr 2018

James Madison and the Struggle for th...

Richard Labunski

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Vi...

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Published: Jun 2006

Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules That...

Penny Le Couteur

Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery ...

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Published: Oct 2011

Strong Men Armed: The United States M...

Robert Leckie

A classic, firsthand account of the U.S. Marines' relentless drive from Guadalcanal to Okinawa during World War II.

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Published: Jul 2010

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Jonah Lehrer

In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science...

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Published: Sep 2008

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Ci...

Nicholas Lemann

This history of the era of Reconstruction reveals a widespread campaign of violence and terror waged by dissatisfied whites who feared the participation of African Americans as equals in politics and life following the Civil War. Hist...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Abraham Lincoln

Complete texts for all 7 debates between the incumbent Democratic senator from Illinois and the 1858 nominee of the infant Republican party. Paving the way for modern debates between political candidates, the events brought Lincoln (w...

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Published: Jan 2009

Savage Continent: Europe in the After...

Keith Lowe

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembere...

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Published: Sep 2012
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