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Series: First Light Original Edition Paperback Geoffrey Wellum 9780241987841 $21.99 HISTORY Jun 23, 2020

In 1918, the RAF was established as the world’s first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughout its first century.Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF…Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pi... + Read More
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Series: Hiroshima Paperback John Hersey 9780593082362 $16.00 HISTORY Jun 23, 2020

In trade paperback for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey’s seminal work of narrative nonfiction, which has sold more than 3 million copies and defined the way we think about Hiroshima.Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid prose, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945,... + Read More
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Series: Sandakan Paperback Paul Ham 9781784164348 $21.99 HISTORY Jun 23, 2020

The brilliantly told but harrowing story of the Borneo Death Marches of 1944-5. After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. There they were beaten, broken, worked to death, thrown into bamboo cages on the slightest pretext and subjected to tortures so ingenious and hideous that the victims were driven to the brink of madness. But it was only to be the beginning of the nightmare. In late 1944 whe... + Read More
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Series: Ladybird Expert Series The Bomber War Book 7 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War Hardcover James Holland 9780718186531 $19.99 HISTORY Jan 19, 2021

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight against Nazi Germany.- How did aeroplane technology change the theatre of war?- How did the Blitz affect Britain’s ability to fight?- How did the Allies finally triumph?DISCOVER how the complex impact of bomber technology shaped the outcome of World War II. From the Blitz to the Battle of the Ruhr, the Bomber War transformed the state of warfare in the twentieth century. GERMANY’S DEADLY TACTICS, THE AL... + Read More
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Series: The Autobiography Paperback Sir Alastair Cook 9780241401446 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 14, 2020

Get to know England legend Alastair Cook in his fascinating and remarkably honest autobiographyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR_________’He is England’s greatest ever batsman…a hugely enjoyable book’ Daily Mail, SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR _________________Watch. The. Ball.It’s just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155 grams of cork, string and leather - is hurled at you. At 90 mph it travels 22 yards in under half a second. You can barely see it and you’ve got to be... + Read More
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Series: Last Witnesses An Oral History of the Children of World War II Paperback Svetlana Alexievich 9780399588761 $24.00 HISTORY Jun 16, 2020

From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children’s experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich’s collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded in them—a trauma that would forever ch... + Read More
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Series: Oceans Ventured Winning the Cold War at Sea Paperback John Lehman 9780393367881 $23.95 HISTORY Jun 16, 2020

“Engrossing and illuminating.” —Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and it had embarked on a massive program to gain naval preeminence. But Reagan already had a plan to end the Cold War without armed conflict. In this landmark narrative, former navy secretary John Lehman reveals the untold story of the naval operations that played a major role in winning the Cold War.
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Series: Exercise of Power American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World Hardcover Robert M. Gates 9781524731885 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 16, 2020

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 bestselling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world. Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its expansive... + Read More
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Series: Why We Serve Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces Hardcover NMAI 9781588346971 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

Rare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans’ service in the militaryWhy We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American Indians’ history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. Why We Serve explores the range of reasons why, from love of their home to an... + Read More
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Series: Why We Serve, Deluxe Edition Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces Hardcover NMAI 9781588346995 $66.00 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

Rare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans’ service in the militaryWhy We Serve, Deluxe Edition, limited to 500 copies, is a stunning keepsake or gift. The lavish cloth cover with a beautiful 4-color image tipped on is encased in a translucent jacket. Illustrations celebrating Native American service in the armed forces pop on 100# matte art stock.Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington,... + Read More
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Series: Places and Names On War, Revolution, and Returning Paperback Elliot Ackerman 9780525559986 $23.00 HISTORY Jun 09, 2020

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.“War hath determined us…” - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. After establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, Ackerman takes a risk by revealin... + Read More
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Series: Code Name Madeleine A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris Hardcover Arthur J Magida 9780393635188 $36.95 HISTORY Jun 09, 2020

A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020 The captivating story of the valiant Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and unlikely World War II heroine. Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of Nazi violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and tra... + Read More
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Series: Appeasement Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War Paperback Tim Bouverie 9780451499851 $24.99 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

An “eye-opening” (Antonia Fraser) new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War IIOn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, “peace for our time.” Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and p... + Read More
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Series: Scholars of Mayhem My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France Paperback Daniel C. Guiet 9780735225220 $23.00 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

The astonishing untold story of the author’s father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn’t resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; ... + Read More
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Series: How to Win 36 Ancient Strategies for Success Paperback Eva Wong 9781611808278 $22.95 PHILOSOPHY Jun 02, 2020

Potent advice on how to think and act strategically in business, politics, and relationships—drawn from classic Chinese military and political expertise.The ancient strategies of war and politics have much to offer us in navigating the complicated challenges we face today—and to help us wisely and effectively meet our business, political, and relational goals. Here, eminent Chinese scholar and Taoist teacher Eva Wong unpacks the wisdom of The Thirty-Six Strategies, a collection of advice encoded in sayings, steeped in Chinese history and cultur... + Read More
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Series: The Grassling Paperback Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 9780141989624 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 26, 2020

’A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness…The Grassling brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books. Burnett stretches the limits of prose, infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original voice’ PD Smith, GuardianWhat fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing.Spurred on by her father’s declining health and ... + Read More
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Series: 1939 A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War Hardcover Frederick Taylor 9781324006794 $40.00 HISTORY May 26, 2020

A best-selling historian’s chronicle of the dramatic months from the Munich Agreement to Hitler’s invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II.In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to a massive world war. Drawing on contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspapers, as well as recorded interviews, 1939 is a narrative account of what the coming of the Second World War felt like to those who lived through it. Frederick Taylor, author ... + Read More
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Series: Gods of War History's Greatest Military Rivals Hardcover James Lacey 9780345547552 $42.00 HISTORY May 19, 2020

Hannibal vs. Scipio. Grant vs. Lee. Rommel vs. Patton. The greatest battles, commanders, and rivalries of all time come to life in this engrossing guide to the geniuses of military history.Gods of War is the first single-volume, in-depth examination of the most celebrated military rivalries of all time, and of the rare, world-changing battles in which the greatest commanders in history matched themselves against true equals.Any meeting of genius may create sparks, but when martial geniuses meet, their confrontations are fought out upon the vast... + Read More
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Series: Spearhead An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II Paperback Adam Makos 9780804176743 $27.00 HISTORY May 19, 2020

The New York Times bestselling World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel—and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner’s seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that he has a hidden talent: He’s a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division—“Spearhead”—thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murd... + Read More
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Series: The Golden Thirteen How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold Hardcover Dan Goldberg 9780807021583 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 19, 2020

The story of the 13 courageous black men who integrated the officer corps of the US Navy during World War II—leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movementThrough oral histories and original interviews with surviving family members, Dan Goldberg brings 13 forgotten heroes away from the margins of history and into the spotlight. He reveals the opposition these men faced: the racist pseudo-science, the regular condescension, the repeated epithets, the verbal abuse and even violence. Despite these immense c... + Read More
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Series: The Ghost Ships of Archangel The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis Paperback William Geroux 9780525557487 $24.00 HISTORY May 12, 2020

An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic split from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole. They were seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the many risks of their chosen route, the four vessels had a better chanc... + Read More
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Series: Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War Hardcover Barton C. Hacker 9781944466350 $53.95 HISTORY May 12, 2020

Scholars in recent decades have begun to pay a great deal of attention to the mobilization of women in the Great War, but why so many women, civilian and military alike, wore uniforms is a question that has scarcely been asked, much less answered. The contributors to Cutting a New Pattern bring this question to the fore and show why it matters. Of the many ways the Great War divided the past from the future, few were more significant than the reordered place of women in society. Although women’s new status clearly had prewar roots, it just as c... + Read More
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Series: Nuking the Moon And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board Paperback Vince Houghton 9780143133407 $24.00 HISTORY May 05, 2020

The International Spy Museum’s Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane“Compulsively readable laugh out loud history.”-Mary RoachIn 1958, the U.S. Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military force. In 1967, the CIA sent live cats to spy on the Soviet government. In 1942, the British built a torpedo-proof aircraft carrier out of an iceberg. Of course, none of these things ever actually happened. But in Nu... + Read More
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Series: The Washington War FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II Paperback James Lacey 9780345547606 $27.00 HISTORY Apr 15, 2020

A Team of Rivals for World War II—the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital’s halls of power. Three-quarters of a century after World War II, the terrifying, razor-thin calculus on which so many critical decisions turned has been forgotten—but had any of these debates gone the other way, the outcome of the... + Read More
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Series: The First Wave The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II Paperback Alex Kershaw 9780451490070 $24.00 HISTORY May 05, 2020

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with a thrilling, action-heavy account of D-Day combat.Beginning in the pre-dawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day’s most critical missions. Their actions would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe.The ten make a charismatic, unforgettable cast. They include the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the only British soldier that day to earn a Vict... + Read More
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Series: Churchill's Shadow Raiders The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon Hardcover Damien Lewis 9780806540634 $36.00 HISTORY Apr 28, 2020

From bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen’s The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw’s The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII…the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history. “One of the most readable World War 2 history books I have read in years” —We Are the Mighty In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking ... + Read More
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Series: The Women with Silver Wings The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II Hardcover Katherine Sharp Landdeck 9781524762810 $37.00 HISTORY Apr 21, 2020

The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II—only to be forgotten by the country they served.When Japanese planes executed a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Cornelia had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air ... + Read More
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Series: Eyewitness Memoirs War of Numbers An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy Paperback Sam Adams 9781586422516 $25.95 HISTORY Apr 14, 2020

In the fall of 1967, political and military leaders in Washington said the Vietnam War was approaching “the crossover point”: More Vietcong soldiers were dying in battle each week than could be recruited. CIA analyst Sam Adams, however, was insisting the good news was an illusion. His estimates of enemy ranks and morale varied wildly from those being released by military intelligence for public consumption, and for use by commanders in the field. Adams’ findings indicated the war was unwinnable, and when US leaders failed to acknowledge basic f... + Read More
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Series: Square Haunting Five Writers in London Between the Wars Hardcover Francesca Wade 9780451497796 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London’s Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in their lives and work.“I like this London life…the street-sauntering and square-haunting.”—Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square—a hidden architectural gem in the heart of London—was a radical address. On the outskirts of Bloomsbury, known for the eponymous group who “lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles,” the square was home to student... + Read More
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Series: Defying Hitler The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule Paperback Gordon Thomas 9780451489067 $27.00 HISTORY Apr 07, 2020

Now in paperback, an enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule.Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple as writing a letter denouncing the rigidity of Nazi law. No matter how small the act, the danger was the same—any display of defianc... + Read More
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Series: In the Waves My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine Hardcover Rachel Lance 9781524744151 $37.00 HISTORY Apr 07, 2020

How an inventive female scientist cracked the case of the first successful—and disastrous—submarine attack.On the night of February 17, 1864, a tiny Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside the Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours, the Union ship’s stern was blown open in a spray of wood planks. The explosion sank the ship, killing many of its crew. And the submarine, the first ever to be successful in combat, disappeared without a trace.For 131 years the eight-man crew of the H.L. Hunle... + Read More
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Series: Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World (LOA#329) Hardcover Jonathan Schell 9781598536584 $54.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2020

75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a collected edition of three classic accounts of our nuclear predicament and the way forward to a peaceful world, by the Rachel Carson of the antiwar movement.Brave, eloquent, and controversial, these classic works by Jonathan Schell illuminate the nuclear threat to our civilization, and envision a way forward to peace. In The Fate of the Earth—an international bestseller that inspired the nuclear freeze movement—Schell distills the best available scientific and technical information to imagine the apocaly... + Read More
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Series: The Allies Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II Paperback Winston Groom 9781426220876 $21.99 HISTORY Apr 03, 2020
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Series: I Want You to Know We're Still Here A Post-Holocaust Memoir Hardcover Esther Safran Foer 9780525575986 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 31, 2020

A woman unearths family secrets and gives voice to things unspoken in this poignant memoir that traces her parents’ escape from the Holocaust.Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, E... + Read More
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Series: Letters of Note Letters of Note: War Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771049552 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 31, 2020

A powerful collection of letters on the theme of War, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first... + Read More
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Series: Blaze of Light The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient Hardcover Marcus Brotherton 9780525653783 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

From one of the fiercest skirmishes of the Vietnam War to years of seclusion in a mountain cave, Medal of Honor recipient, Gary Beikirch has faced more than his fair share of battles and overcome each of them through perseverance and faith. He inspires readers to do the same. On April 1, 1970, Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch knew the odds were stacked against his survival. Some 10,000 enemy soldiers sought to obliterate the twelve American Special Forces troops and five hundred South Vietnamese fighters who stood fast to defend the women a... + Read More
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Series: The Vietnam War Paperback Geoffrey Ward 9781984897749 $27.00 HISTORY Mar 24, 2020

A text-only edition of the riveting companion volume to the epic ten-part PBS documentary from the award-winning historian and filmmakers behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its ghosts remain. In this magisterial work, historian Geoffrey C. Ward and filmmaker Ken Burns have crafted a fresh and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and ... + Read More
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Series: Honorable Exit How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War Paperback Thurston Clarke 9781101872345 $23.00 HISTORY Mar 24, 2020

A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revengeIn 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. By early April in 1975, the South was on the brink of a defeat that threatened execution or years in a concentration camp for the untold number of South Vietnamese who ... + Read More
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Series: D-Day Girls The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II Paperback Sarah Rose 9780451495099 $24.00 HISTORY Mar 17, 2020

Now in paperback, the dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victoryIn 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Believing that Britain was locked in an existential battle, Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting. Their job, he declared, was to “set Europe ablaze.” But with most ... + Read More
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Series: American Cipher Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan Paperback Matt Farwell 9780735221062 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 10, 2020

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America’s foundering war in Afghanistan“A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl’s disastrous—and weirdly poignant—choice to walk off his military base in Afghanistan…. A spectacularly good book about an incredibly painful and important topic.”—Sebastian Junger, author of Tribe and WarPrivate First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon’s base in eastern Afghanistan in the early... + Read More
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Series: Madame Fourcade's Secret War The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler Paperback Lynne Olson 9780812985030 $27.00 HISTORY Mar 03, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island“Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to be called a hero.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for he... + Read More
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Series: Tower of Skulls A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937?May 1942 Hardcover Richard Frank 9781324002109 $54.00 HISTORY Mar 03, 2020

An eye-opening, pathbreaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. From just two nation states with real sovereignty, Thailand and Japan, and two with compromise... + Read More
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Series: A Company of Heroes Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us Paperback Marcus Brotherton 9781524745806 $12.99 HISTORY Mar 03, 2020

The author of We Who Are Alive and Remain presents remembrances from the families of the soldiers of World War II’s Easy Company.A Company of Heroes is an intimate, revealing portrait of the lives of the men who fought for our freedom during some of the darkest days the world has ever known—men who returned home with a newfound wisdom and honor that they passed on to their families and who continue to inspire new generations of Americans.Compiled from the veterans’ notes, journals, letters, photographs, and the author’s personally conducted int... + Read More
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Series: The Second Most Powerful Man in the World The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff Paperback Phillips Payson O'Brien 9780399584824 $27.00 HISTORY Mar 03, 2020

Now in paperback, the life of Franklin Roosevelt’s most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-ChiefAside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II than Admiral William D. Leahy—not Douglas MacArthur, not Dwight Eisenhower, and not even the legendary George Marshall. No man, including Harry Hopkins, was closer to Roosevelt, nor had earned his blind faith, like Leahy. Through the course of the war, constantly at the president’s side and advising him on daily decisions, Leahy became t... + Read More
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Series: The Splendid and the Vile A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Hardcover Erik Larson 9780385348713 $40.00 HISTORY Feb 25, 2020

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the BlitzOn Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Frankli... + Read More
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Series: Sabre Squadron Six Weeks Behind Enemy Lines Paperback Cameron Spence 9781405943888 $16.99 HISTORY Feb 25, 2020

With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy’s backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety.Sabre Squadron recounts in graphic detail their scud-busting operations deep inside Iraq. They were operating alone and out of reach of reinforcements, with the threat of detection and its fatal consequences ever present. Yet their determination to wreak havoc behind enemy lines remained undimmed, culminating in an attack that decisively reconfirmed the re... + Read More
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Series: When the Irish Invaded Canada The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom Paperback Christopher Klein 9780525434016 $23.95 HISTORY Feb 18, 2020

Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish Americans and their chapter in Ireland’s centuries-long fight for independence—a story of fighting for what’s right in the face of impossible odds.Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military histo... + Read More
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Series: Mengele Unmasking the Angel of Death Hardcover David G Marwell 9780393609530 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

A gripping biography of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice. Whether as the demonic doctor who direct... + Read More
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Series: Ladybird Expert Series The Pacific 1941-43 Book 6 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War Hardcover James Holland 9780718186524 $16.99 HISTORY Jan 28, 2020

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?- How did the Americans underestimate the Japanese?- What were 'banzai charges,' and how did the discipline of the Japanese lead to their downfall?FOLLOW the lethal turns of World War II through the theatre of the Pacific War. From the devastating attack on Pearl Harbour to the decisive triumph of the Allies at Guadalcanal, the entry of Japan and America to the fighting changed the course of World War II completely.JAPAN'S DEADLY OFFENSIVE, AMERICA'S DECISIVE VICTORY... + Read More
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Series: Summoned at Midnight A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth Paperback Richard A. Serrano 9780807028353 $22.00 HISTORY Jan 28, 2020

Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second chance and whose did not. Between 1955 and 1961, a group of white and black condemned soldiers lived together on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison. Although convicted of equally heinous crimes, all the white soldiers were eventually paroled and... + Read More
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Series: Lord of All the Dead A nonfiction novel Hardcover Javier Cercas 9780525520900 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 14, 2020

In this deeply personal work of historical interrogation, Javier Cercas—“the bard of [the] movement for the recovery of Spain’s suppressed memory” (The New York Times Book Review)—unpacks the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by way of his own family’s history. Growing up, Cercas was inculcated with the legend of his beloved great-uncle, Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War—while fighting for Franco. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is now an embarrassment or a committed idealist wh... + Read More
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Series: The Art of War A New Translation by Michael Nylan Hardcover Sun Tzu 9781324004899 $33.95 HISTORY Jan 07, 2020

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War. Sun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and unexpected lessons to be learned from The Art of War—in business ventures, relationships, games of skill, academ... + Read More
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Series: 999 The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Hardcover Heather Dune Macadam 9780806539362 $37.00 HISTORY Dec 31, 2019

A Pen America Literary Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeAn Amazon Best of the Year Selection The untold story of some of WW2’s most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all. Readers of Born Survivors and A Train Near Magdeburg will devour the tragic tale of the first 999 women in Auschwitz concentration camp. This is the hauntingly resonant true story that everyone should know. On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of a... + Read More
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Series: Trump and His Generals The Cost of Chaos Hardcover Peter Bergen 9780525522416 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 10, 2019

From one of America’s preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump’s collision with the American national security establishment, and with the worldIt is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. The real estate developer from Queens promised to bring his brash, zero-sum swagger to bear to cut through America’s most complex national security issues, and he did. If the cost of his “America First” agenda was b... + Read More
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Series: The Battle of Arnhem The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II Paperback Antony Beevor 9780143128830 $24.00 HISTORY Oct 29, 2019

The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany’s parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division.Operation Market Garden, the pl... + Read More
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Series: Leadership in War Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History Hardcover Andrew Roberts 9780525522386 $36.00 HISTORY Oct 29, 2019

A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths—and weaknesses—shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill and Napoleon“Has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table conversation with an opinionated guest.” —The New York Times Book ReviewTaking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonapart... + Read More
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Series: The Secret History of Soldiers How Canadians Survived the Great War Paperback Tim Cook 9780735235281 $25.00 HISTORY Oct 22, 2019

There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines how those who survived trench warfare on the Western Front found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter. These ta... + Read More
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Series: Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA Hardcover Amaryllis Fox 9780385692410 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2019

Amaryllis Fox’s riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world’s most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while falling in love and giving birth to a daughter.Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying ancient languages and theoretical physics when her writing mentor, Daniel Pearl, was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, she applied to a Master’s program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service,... + Read More
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Series: Sailing True North Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character Hardcover Admiral James Stavridis USN 9780525559931 $37.00 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

From one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrious naval commanders in historyIn his acclaimed book Sea Power, James Stavridis reckoned with the history and geopolitics of the world’s great bodies of water. Now in Sailing True North, he offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history’s most significant naval com... + Read More
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Series: Shambhala Pocket Library The Art of War Paperback Sun Tzu 9781611806977 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY Sep 24, 2019

The most prestigious and influential book on strategy and dealing with conflict, beautifully translated for clear, accessible reading.In the words of Sun Tzu, "To win without fighting is best." This timeless Chinese classic captures the essence of military strategy used in ancient East Asia, with lessons on how to handle conflict confidently, efficiently, and successfully. The techniques and instructions discussed in The Art of War apply to competition and conflict on every level, from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincib... + Read More