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Series: The Cowboys How the West Was Won Paperback Bruce Wexler 9781510756458 $33.99 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022

Relive the Old West with illustrated biographies of Western luminaries like “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Charles Goodnight, Bill Pickett, William and George Calloway, Joseph McCoy, and more! The glory days of the Old West cowboy lasted for only a couple of decades, but during this short time the cowboy's reputation became a fundamental part of the American mythos. The Cowboys delves deep into the world of these iconic men. It gives an intimate insight into the tough working conditions of the cowboy's working kit, which has now achieved iconic status. T... + Read More
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Series: The Crossroads of Civilization A History of Vienna Hardcover Angus Robertson 9781639361953 $39.95 HISTORY Aug 02, 2022

A rich and illuminating history of the world capital that has transformed art, culture, and politics.Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe in the wake of Napoleon's downfall, to bridge-building summits during the Cold War, Vienna has been the scene of key moments in world history. Scores of pivotal figures were influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria... + Read More
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Series: The Failed Promise Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Paperback Robert S. Levine 9781324021797 $22.95 HISTORY Aug 02, 2022

Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast himself as a “Moses” for the Black community, and African Americans were optimistic that he would pur... + Read More
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Series: The Fifth Act America's End in Afghanistan Hardcover Elliot Ackerman 9780593492048 $36.00 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacyElliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had worked closely with the American military and intelligence co... + Read More
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Series: The Golden Brigade The Untold Story of the 82nd Airborne in Vietnam and Beyond Hardcover Robert J. Dvorchak 9781637584699 $54.00 HISTORY Aug 23, 2022

An epic tale of a brotherhood forged by war—masterfully told by a lifelong journalist, war correspondent, and U.S. Army veteran.“A must-read by military historians who follow the 82nd Airborne Division. It is a compilation of fascinating stories by brave soldiers who found themselves in the crucible of fierce combat.” —LTG (Retired) James H. Johnson, 82nd Airborne Division Commander, Panama and Desert Storm “This book is the best I have ever read about the real situation experienced by infantrymen in the Vietnam War. The stories honor the Amer... + Read More
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Series: The Great Battles of All Time Paperback Jeremy Black 9780500286531 $25.95 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022

Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BCE to the present.Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Covering the past twenty-five centuries, editor Jeremy Black analyzes the effects these events have had on the development of states and civilizations. Organized chronologically in seven parts, the chapters feature ancient and medieval worlds as we... + Read More
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Series: The Greatest Evil is War Hardcover Chris Hedges 9781644212936 $28.95 HISTORY Sep 20, 2022

An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents.Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, this book looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities and nations.In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to g... + Read More
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Series: The Immeasurable Wilds Travellers to the Far North of Scotland, 1600–1900 Paperback Alastair Mitchell 9781849954921 $31.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2022

Provides an illuminating and entertaining account of how the Far North in Scotland was revealed through early travellers.
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Series: The Invention of Medicine From Homer to Hippocrates Paperback Robin Lane Fox 9780141983967 $16.99 HISTORY Oct 25, 2022

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox’s remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been ac... + Read More
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Series: The Irish Assassins Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England Paperback Julie Kavanagh 9780802149374 $25.50 HISTORY Aug 26, 2022

Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger Award for NonfictionA brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in the l9th century, the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, that gripped the world and forever altered the course of Irish history, from renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, and Costa Biography Award finalist Julie Kavanagh.Ireland, 1879–1882. After 700 years of British rule, the post-Famine generation of Irish tenant farmers began to push back against the reigning feudal system of landownership. The charisma... + Read More
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Series: The Kelly Hunters Paperback Grantlee Kieza 9780733341496 $24.99 HISTORY Nov 15, 2022

The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlawWhen Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train before waging their final bloody gun battle with police in the small Victorian town of Glenrowan.In the 20 months between those shootouts and aided by a network of informers, hundr... + Read More
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Series: The Longest Story How humans have loved, hated and misunderstood other species Paperback Richard Girling 9780861543533 $27.95 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022

Why do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon?‘Lucid, informed and persuasive’ Evening Standard ‘Thought-provoking’ Daily Mail ‘An extraordinary book’ Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history of humanity’s relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals there would be no us. We are all fellow travellers on the same evolutionary journey. By charting the love–hate story of people and animals, from their first acquaintance in deep prehistory to the present and beyond, Richard Girling reveals how and wher... + Read More
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Series: The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China Hardcover Anthony J. Barbieri-Low 9780295750224 $82.95 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Aug 09, 2022

Ying Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments include conquest of the warring states of ancient China, creation of an imperial system that endured for two millennia, and unification of Chinese culture through the promotion of a single writing system.Only one biased historical account, written a century after his death in 210 BCE, narrates his biography. Recently, however, archaeologist... + Read More
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Series: The Red Arrows The Story of Britain's Iconic Display Team Hardcover David Montenegro 9781529135527 $42.95 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERDAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE FIRST OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE RED ARROWS’Heart-pounding, exhilarating…A fascinating testimony of jeopardy, cool heads and the sheer exultant addiction of flying.’ SINCLAIR MCKAY’Fantastic…It was wonderful to read about so many old chums and truly legendary aviators. Highly recommended.’ JOHN NICHOL (Twitter)’An exhilarating read! The next-best thing to taking the controls of a Hawk fast-jet. And you’re much less likely to throw up.’ BEN MILLER’Inspirational…Precision, style and dedic... + Read More
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Series: The Shortest History of War From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers — A Retelling for Our Times Paperback Gwynne Dyer 9781770866812 $22.95 HISTORY Aug 02, 2022

Acclaimed historian and military expert Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its earliest origins up to the present age of atom bombs and algorithms. Dyer chronicles the advent of warfare in the first cities; the rise of inequality and tyranny as humans multiply; the thousand-year classical era of combat until the firearm and the Thirty Years’ War, which changed everything. He traces how the brief interlude of limited war before the popular revolutions of the eighteenth century ushered in “total war” — and how the devastation was halted by t... + Read More
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Series: The Spitfire Kids The generation who built, supported and flew Britain’s most beloved fighter Paperback Alasdair Cross 9781472281999 $19.99 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just twenty years old. Many of the men and women who de... + Read More
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Series: The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön A Woman of Power and Privilege Paperback Alison Melnick Dyer 9780295750361 $37.95 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Aug 23, 2022

Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699?1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurmé Ösel, to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how authoritative Buddhist women have nego... + Read More
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Series: The Waffen-SS The Third Reich's Most Infamous Military Organization Paperback Nigel Cawthorne 9781398815049 $16.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2022

Nigel Cawthorne provides a fascinating in-depth review of the history of the infamous Waffen-SS.Ideal for anyone interested in military history.
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Series: Under Our Skin Paperback Jethro Soutar 9781951213527 $36.95 HISTORY Dec 09, 2022

1570: A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black. Most are enslaved African people performing an array of duties, but there are free Africans too, and somebody else: a Black knight astride a horse. Four hundred and fifty years later, novelist and journalist Joaquim Arena stands in a museum, transfixed by the character depicted on this canvas by an anonymous Flemish painter. He doesn’t know it ... + Read More
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Series: Culture, Place, and Nature Upland Geopolitics Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush Paperback Michael B. Dwyer 9780295750491 $37.95 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Aug 30, 2022

In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, and regional and international trade. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Upland Geopolitics uses the case of Chinese agribusiness investment in northern Laos to study th... + Read More
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Series: Voices from the Confederacy True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South Hardcover Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. 9781637585177 $38.99 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

Read about the Civil War from those who were there.They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that’s largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. In it, you will read about the heroic, the scoundrels, the clever, the vanquished, and the hungry. Rich or poor, black or white, Voices from the Confederacy shares hundreds of poignant and revealing moments during the war between the states. From Voices from the Confederacy: Sara Pryor, the wife of ... + Read More
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Series: Voices from the Pandemic Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience Paperback Eli Saslow 9780593312797 $23.00 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from all across AmericaThe Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans to capture their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in... + Read More
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Series: Wheels of Courage How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation Paperback David Davis 9781546084631 $23.99 HISTORY Aug 23, 2022

Out of the carnage of World War II comes an unforgettable tale about defying the odds and finding hope in the most harrowing of circumstances. Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps-only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries. Doctors considered paraplegics to be "dead-enders" and "no-hopers," with the life expectancy of about a year. Soc... + Read More
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Series: Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody Plainsmen of the Legendary West Paperback Bill Markley 9781493048427 $31.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2022

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were considered heroes and the greatest plainsmen of their time. They were larger than life, legendary characters. They knew where to locate water, good grass for livestock, sheltered campsites, and game for hunting. They knew how to survive the blistering heat and terrific thunderstorms of summer and the subzero blizzards of winter. They could avoid Indians or act as trackers following the trails of Indians as well as desperados. They were expert marksmen and did not back down from a fight. They rushed in... + Read More
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Series: Words of War The story of the Second World War revealed in eye-witness letters, speeches and diaries Hardcover Imperial War Museum 9781472288110 $42.99 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated the great letters written through history, so Words of War allows the Imperial War Museum to showcase its incredible array of first-hand material to shine a light on how people journeyed through the 1939-45 conflict.Ten chapters take the reader chronologically through the key mom... + Read More
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Series: Young Bloomsbury How the Bright Young Things secured the Bloomsbury legacy Hardcover Nino Strachey 9781529306934 $42.99 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

'Entirely original and thrilling . . . this is Gatsby made real' JULIET NICOLSON'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYESIn the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to invigorate the Bloomsbury Group - creative young people who tantalised the original 'Bloomsberries' with their captivating looks and provocative ideas.YoungBloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, 'who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black ve... + Read More