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A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-best...

In April 1994 Up To A Million People Were Slaughtered In Rwanda During A Murderous Campaign Of Horrifying Efficiency. The Ferocity Of The Killing And The Cr...

Fourth in the Kennel Club Books’ Classics series, The Golden Retriever recognizes the ever-popular all-American breed in this one spectacular volume. Writ...

William C. Wicken. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [281]-293) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I ...

"My beloved friends," writes Anna Briggs Bentley, "How often do I wish that you could peep in at us and hear the sound of cheerful voices issuing from our ...

Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winni...

"When I think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, some words Gorky used about Tolstoy come into my mind -- 'Look what a wonderful man is living on the earth!' Reading [...

[edited By] Mike Parker. Includes Bibliographical References: P. [239].Categories: HistoryAmericas

Roger Crowley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 381-390) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

Christie Blatchford. Includes Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Cultural & Ethnic Studi...

The Author Of Reclaiming The Gods And The Isle Of Avalon Now Details The Fascinating Significance Of The Design Of The U.s. Capital. Nicholas R. Mann. Inclu...

Raising Royalty Examines The Struggles And Successes Of Thirty Sets Of Royal Parents Over The Past Thousand Years As They Raised Their Children In The Publi...

See the Collector's Edition of Spoken from the Heart In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private...

In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and...

The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization synthesizes the latest research and information from a range of disciplines to tell the compelling story, from t...

By Charles Mackay ; With A Foreword By Andrew Tobias. Originally Published As: Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London : R. Bentley, 1841. Includ...

The Received Idea Of Native American History--as Promulgated By Books Like Dee Brown's Mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee--has Been That Am...

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of S...

"Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." --John le Carré From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street: A tale of Nazi l...

THIS IS THE BOOK THATCHANGED AMERICA Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after he...

The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new repo...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

The Exacerbation Of Arab-israeli Conflict At The Time Of The Six-day War In 1967 Gave Birth In Some Quarters To A Radical Revision Of Jewish-arab History. A...

Many books on the Luftwaffe in World War II have been published over the years, although the Night Fighter´s branch has been studied less often. In our Gui...

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from ...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting...

The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American ...

The Authors Of This First Full-length Biography Of Maharaja Ranjit Singh In English Make Use Of A Variety Of Eye-witness Accounts, From Reports By Maratha S...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevar...

This guide to the 20th century uses newspaper-style presentations to reveal the stories behind the heroes and villains of recent times, the major events tha...

Introduction -- In The Beginning -- Booth Finds His Destiny -- William And Catherine -- An Army Is Formed -- The Sounds Of Music -- Early Persecution -- Wom...

Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid--the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837--was forged • Includes evidence from ...

"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—sin...

The second volume of Branch's trilogy on the civil rights era. Jeff Shesol Branch spins an intricate, seamless web of politics and personalities, ambition ...

The women pilots profiled in this book have flown from British Columbia to Newfoundland and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Right from the beginni...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

"Wilson . . . does a tremendous job here of not only examining all that is known about Paul's life but also putting it into context with what was happening...

From The Publisher: A Gripping, Groundbreaking Biography Of The Combative Man Whose Genius And Force Of Will Created Modern Capitalism. Founder Of A Dynasty...

Napoleon And Russia Tells, For The First Time, The Full Story Of Napoleon And His Crucial Relationship With Russia, From The 1790s And Bonaparte's Rise To P...

Combining In-depth Research With His Personal Experiences As The Bbc Moscow Correspondent For Almost Twenty Years, Sixsmith Tells Russia's Full And Fascinat...

Confederate Williamsburg. A Line Of Defense -- Sickly Season -- Rumors Of War -- The Battle Of Williamsburg. Sunday Skirmish -- Pandemonium Broke Loose -- A...

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, co...

This book begins with an introductory overview of the socio-political climate of the state of Mississippi during the 1850s and ends with a treatment of its ...

In Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation, Joseph Bobik interprets the doctrines put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On ...

In 1880, the California woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the Pacific state won full...

This historic narrative, written by cousins who are descendants of the Low and Stiles families, spans two centuries of the intertwined families of the House...

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and h...