History

As U.s. Troops Prepare To Withdraw, The Shocking Tale Of How The American Military Had Triumph In Sight In Afghanistan--and Then Brought The Taliban Back Fr...

In the End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical to...

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for ...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

An Examination Of Cuban Society Through The Music Of The 1920s-30s When It Began To Embrace Afro-cuban Culture. Traces How The African Element Of Cuban Soci...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scub...

OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING & EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. CURLING AT OUTER EDGE OF BOTH COVERS. CREASING AT BOTTOM OUT...

Product Description Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, ...

Product Description In Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, Ben M. Freeman, inspired by his experiences with LGBTQ+ pride, aims to educate, inspire and e...

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that convert...

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married anoth...

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Includi...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

in This Angry, Funny, Smart, Contentious Book, Jonah Goldberg Offers A Startling New Perspective On The Theories And Practices That Define Fascist Politic...

#1 Bestselling Author And Radio Host Glenn Beck Exposes The Real Truth Behind The Roots Of Islamic Extremism In Muslim Teachings In This Sharply Insightful ...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids fro...

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

A Non-fiction Analysis Of The Persian Gulf War And The Nature Of War And Command As Seen Through The Actions Of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., Commander ...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....

Since the Declaration of Independence, equality has been America's primary moral commitment. But equality of what? and for whom? In this completely revised ...

In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled measure of ...

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons ...

New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American...

Winner, 2017 Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States * From the historian who has been acclaimed as "doing for the Navy what po...

Eleanor Herman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-274) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psychology & Interactions

A Never-before-told World War Ii Story Of Jewish Soldiers On A Dangerous Mission Within The Third Reich--a Tale Of Adventure, Espionage, Love, And Revenge.C...

Provides supplementary instruction and increases students' chances for academic success by helping them get the most out of their textbooks.Categories: Hist...

The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and preven...

The Murder Of Abraham Lincoln Set Off The Greatest Manhunt In American History. From April 14 To April 26, 1865, The Assassin Led Union Cavalry And Detectiv...

The six daughters of the eccentric Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney have inspired many books, but this group biography is widely considered to be the fine...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

What Does It Take, Both Physically And Mentally, To Join The World’s Most Respected—and Feared—military Units? Lewis Looks At The Origins, Training, T...

Traces The Events Surrounding The Final American Bombing Mission Of World War Ii, Identifying A Japanese Rebel Plot For A Massive Coup That Would Have Kept ...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming ...

A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years lat...

Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., A Late-eighteenth-century Financial Pioneer-turned-confidence Man, Describing How He Took Advantage Of Suspicions About Paper M...

Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring HeistCategories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeEspionage

America, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to d...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me share the stories behind the five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination—al...

From the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report comes the definitive history of Air Force One. From FDR's prop-driv...

Includes Discussion Of Contemporary Economic And Demographic Forces, In Addition To Standard Physical And Historical Geographic Material, Bone (geography, U...

"I'm not a scratch golfer. I don't know how to bowl. I can't read the stock market. Hell, I have a hard time remembering my wife's cell phone number. But I...

Michael Holley.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Did Jesus of Nazareth really rise from the dead? Of the many world religions, only one claims that its founder returned from the grave. The resurrection o...

The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church MurdersCategories:Politics & Social Sciences

Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest EnemyCategories: HistoryMilitary

A graphic narrative describes what happens to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. Includes a brief chronology of the Holocaust...