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from The new York Times-bestselling Author Of In harm's Way Comes A True-life Story Of American Soldiers Overcoming Great Odds To Achieve A Stunning Milit...

The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the t...

General George S. Patton, Jr. Died Under Mysterious Circumstances In The Months Following The End Of World War Ii. For Almost Seventy Years, There Has Been ...

Discusses The Works Of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, And Emily Dickinson. Pt. 1. Toward A Feminist Poetics: The Q...

On A Winter Day In 1903, In The Outer Banks Of North Carolina, Two Unknown Brothers From Ohio Changed History. But It Would Take The World Some Time To Beli...

Patrick Mcgilligan. Filmography: P. [751]-785. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference ...

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with...

This celebration of historic--and present-day--Native American cultures includes information on the contemporary lives of more than 149 Indian groups, from ...

Told by one of our country's greatest historians, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the extraordinary history of the birth of our countr...

In the year 2223, human-behavior scientists discover a small abandoned settlement nestled in the Rocky Mountains of North America. Among the ruins they find...

The first illustrated history of the Sierra Club, this stunning volume celebrates America's foremost environmental organization on its 100th birthday. Breat...

William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history. Examining all archival legal material for the period 1607-1776 and...

Criticizes Israel's spy agency, arguing it has helped drug traffickers in order to finance its operations, and acted in its own, rather than Israel's intere...

"You can't let people be treated in an inhuman way around you. . . . Otherwise you start to become inhuman." So speaks rescuer Hetty Voûte in The Heart ...

General Francisco Franco came to prominence during the days of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson and was able to cling to absolute political power unti...

The Popular Rock Singer Delivers Behind-the-scenes Stories From His Life In Music, From His Solo Career To His Decade-long Tenure As Lead Singer Of Van Hale...

Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance,...

A World History Of Photography Encompasses The Entire Range Of The Medium, From The Camera Lucida To The Latest Computer Technology, And From Europe And The...

A Long Shadow is a fascinating narrative account of the fall of the Confederacy told from the perspective of Jefferson Davis, his official entourage, and h...

Discover how a boy became devoted to the people who enslaved him, returned to their shores, and changed Ireland forever... He was taken from his home in En...

Autumn 1944. World War Ii Is Nearly Over In Europe But Is Escalating In The Pacific, Where American Soldiers Face An Opponent Who Will Go To Any Length To A...

Readers Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales - Just Think Of The Premature Burial - May Comfort Themselves With The Notion That Poe Must Have Exaggerated: Surely Peop...

in Celebration Of The Bsa's 100th Anniversary, Boy Scouts Of America: A Centennial History Is The Official And Definitive History Of One Of Our Nation's M...

Two Award-winning Political Scientists Provide The Psychological Key To America's Deadlocked Politics, Showing That We Are Divided Not By Ideologies But Som...

The writings presented in this volume shed tremendous light, both on the character of T. E. Lawrence and the current situation in the Middle East. Despite b...

No other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends and myths as Titanic. Unsinkable ...

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's...

Told with captivating images, an evocative text, and haunting music on a CD, here is the remarkable story of a courageous group of rural African people who...

From Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Rick Atkinson comes an eyewitness account of the war against Iraq and a vivid portrait of a remarkable gro...

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented a...

Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the family members of one hundred of the individuals lost on that terrible day look back-and forwa...

Culled From 7500 Columns And Spanning Four Decades, From His Early Days To His Last Dispatch, The Writings In This Collection Reflect A Radically Changing A...

Discusses the brutal Russian Civil War, which, after World War I, claimed more than twenty million lives, involved fourteen other nations, including the Uni...

When it was first published in 1939, oil historian James A. Clark called this book, "the most valuable collection of historical, biographical, and statistic...

Liberty : The Very Idea -- Liberty And Its Competitors -- Liberty And Rights -- Liberty Of The Mind -- Sex -- Back To Work -- The Spirit Of Liberty. Charles...

Picture a Crow Indian elder, his wizened eyes catching yours in the ancient flicker of firelight. His mesmerizing stories span the ages, from Custer to Wor...

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During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed reb...

Joyce Lee Malcolm. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History MilitaryUnited States

The First Narrative History Of Gambling, Spanning The Stone Age To The Internet Era, Examining How It Evolved With ? And Influenced ? Human Civilization -- ...

On The Night Of September 6, 2011, Terror Called At The Amish Home Of The Millers. Answering A Late-night Knock From What Appeared To Be An Amish Neighbor, ...

The enthralling true story of the greatest baseball team ever forgotten In a time when the country was divided into black and white, our soldier boys battl...

the Story Of The Bayeux Tapestry — From Its Origins And Creation To Its Long And Dramatic Afterlife.the Vivid Scenes On The Bayeux Tapestry Depict The Event...

From the night watchmen of the 17th century to the highly publicized Rodney King hearings, the history and development of police policy and the role of pol...

The First Vice Lord is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district-the Levee. For the first ti...

Leonard W. Levy's Legacy of Suppression so disturbed Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black that he called it "one of the mosts devastating blows that has been...

The 1971-72 Basketball Season Was One To Go Down In History. For The Los Angeles Lakers It Was A Season Of Records, An Incredible Championship, And Many Per...