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Series: 634 Maneras de matar a FidelPlanes de la CIA y la Mafia para asasinar a Fidel CastroPaperback
Fabian Escalante9781925756340
$24.95HISTORY
Jul 11, 2023
Expansivo recuento de los diversos, creativos, frecuentemente extraños y sin embargo increíblemente inquietantes intentos de asesinar a Fidel Castro.Fabián Escalante, el fundador de los servicios de seguridad cubanos y jefe del Departamento de Seguridad del Estado Cubano provee un lúcido recuento en primera persona de sus experiencias defendiendo a Castro contra extraordinarios intentos de homicidio. Escrito en el estilo de una novela de suspenso político, pero lleno de detalles históricos sobre Fidel, Cuba, el movimiento comunista y los intent... + Read More
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Series: A Continent EruptsDecolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955Hardcover
Ronald H. Spector9780393254655
$54.00HISTORY
Aug 23, 2022
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022
A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II—and determined the fate of the continent.
The end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled “the long peace.” Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya—the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to c... + Read More
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Series: A History of WarFrom Ancient Warfare to the Global Conflicts of the 21st CenturyPaperback
Chris McNab9781398814981
$16.95HISTORY
Aug 30, 2022
A superb introduction to the history of warfare.Ideal for anyone interested in reading about military history.
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Series: A History of the WindHardcover
Alain Corbin9781509552054
$23.95HISTORY
Jan 24, 2023
Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly original volume, Alain Corbin sets out to illuminate the wind’s storied history. He shows how, before the nineteenth century, the noisy emptiness of wi... + Read More
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Series: A Short History of RussiaHow the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to PutinFirst Time TradePaperback
Mark Galeotti9781335475213
$21.99HISTORY
Aug 23, 2022
A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk RoadsRussia’s epic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to help us understand its actions today and what the future might hold A country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity, Russia has mythologized its past to unite its people, to justify its military decision... + Read More
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Series: About TimeA History of Civilization in Twelve ClocksPaperback
David Rooney9781324021957
$24.95HISTORY
Aug 09, 2022
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best History Books of 2021
A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world.
For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since... + Read More
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Series: Nature | History | SocietyAgainst the TidesReshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime MarshlandsPaperback
Ronald Rudin9780774866767
$32.95HISTORY
Aug 15, 2022
For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of... + Read More
Discover the little-known role Alexander Hamilton played in the decisive battle of the American Revolution: Yorktown.Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 is the first book in nearly two and a half centuries that has ever been devoted to the story of Alexander Hamilton’s key contributions in winning the most decisive victory the of the American Revolutionary war at Yorktown. Past biographies of Hamilton, including the most respected ones, have minimized the overall importance of the young lieutenant colonel’s role and batt... + Read More
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Series: All Roads Led to GettysburgA New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal BattleHardcover
Troy D. Harman9780811770637
$38.95HISTORY
Aug 15, 2022
It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart rode and raided incommunicado. Meanwhile, General Meade, in command only a few days, gave uncertain chase to an enemy whose exact positions he did not know. And so these ignorant armies clashed by first light at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. In the spirit of his iconoclastic Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg, Troy D. Harman argues for a new interpretation:... + Read More
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Series: American StoriesWashington’s Cherry Tree, Lincoln’s Log Cabin, and Other Tales—True and Not-So-True—and How They Spread Throughout the LandPaperback
Paul Aron9781493069200
$25.95HISTORY
Aug 01, 2022
American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. The story of the cherry tree, for example, tells us nothing about George Washington’s actual childhood, but surely it tells us something about what Americans wanted in the father of their country—an incorruptible leader of the people. Along the same lines, the story of Betsy Ross’s flag tells us nothing about how the Stars and Stripes came to be, but does tell us something about what Americans wanted in a founding ... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern StudiesAtiqputInuit Oral History and Project NamingHardcover
Carol Payne9780228011057
$45.95HISTORY
Sep 16, 2022
"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inu... + Read More
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Series: Bad SexTruth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished RevolutionHardcover
Nona Willis Aronowitz9780593182765
$37.00HISTORY
Aug 09, 2022
From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that probes the meaning of desire and sexual freedom today.At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona Willis Aronowitz’s life, and in America, was in disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were both in overdrive. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning, and reimagining, her assumptions of what “sexual liberation” meant were suddenly up for debate.In the thick of per... + Read More
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Series: 9781472848901
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Series: 9781250277503
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Series: Birth of a RegimentThe 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Sicily and SalernoPaperback
Frank van Lunteren9781637583807
$33.00HISTORY
Sep 06, 2022
Book I in the campaign history of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Birth of a Regiment is an authoritative, action-packed account of the 504th’s seminal role in Sicily and Italy, the first two U.S. airborne drops in the European Theater of Operations. Drawing on hundreds of eye-witness testimonies, Frank van Lunteren puts readers at the scene of historic battles as described in the words of the men who fought them. New archival sources in English, German, and Italian further enrich the narrative, along with fresh maps and previously unpub... + Read More
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Series: Brady's Civil War JournalPhotographing the War 1861–65Paperback
Theodore P. Savas9781510756427
$39.99HISTORY
Aug 02, 2022
“My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.” —Mathew Brady Mathew Brady and his team of assistants risked their lives to capture up-close images of the fury of the American Civil War and its aftermath. Brady actually got so close to the action during the First Battle of Bull Run that he only narrowly avoided capture. Brady's Civil War Journal chronicles the events of the war by showcasing a selection of Brady's moving, one-of-a-kind images and describing... + Read More
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Series: 9781472848826
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military HistoryBuilding the Army’s BackboneCanadian Non-Commissioned Officers in the Second World WarPaperback
Andrew L. Brown9780774866972
$34.95HISTORY
Aug 15, 2022
In September 1939, Canada’s tiny army began its remarkable expansion into a wartime force of almost half a million soldiers. Building the Army’s Backbone tells the story of how senior leadership created a corps of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) that helped the burgeoning force train, fight, and win. This innovative book uncovers the army’s two-track NCO production system: locally organized training programs were run by units and formations, while centralized training and talent-distribution programs were overseen by the army. Ultimately, this... + Read More
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Series: 9781472849045
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Series: ChernobylThe Devastation, Destruction and Consequences of the World's Worst Radiation AccidentPaperback
Ian Fitzgerald9781398814967
$16.95HISTORY
Aug 01, 2022
The Emmy-winning HBO series, Chernobyl (2019) follows the aftermath of the nuclear disaster and its popularity has encouraged curious tourists to visit the area.Chernobyl is due to become a UNESCO heritage site, reinforcing its historical significance and cultural importance.Nuclear disasters and their consequences spark the interest of not only environmental scientists but also of the general population.
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Series: CivilizationFrom Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian HistoryPaperback
E.A. Heaman9780228011675
$44.95HISTORY
Aug 15, 2022
Colonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check on state violence, only to be reversed and undone over the next century. Civilization was hegemony, a contradictory theory of unrestrained power and restraints on that power. Occupying a middle ground between British and American hegemonies, all the diff... + Read More
The untold story of a British institution‘Brilliant.’ Alan Johnson‘Compelling.’ David Kynaston‘The beer drinkers’ Bill Bryson.’ Times Literary SupplementFerment Magazine’s Best Beer Book of the YearPete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating history of the working men’s clubs. From the movement’s founding by teetotaller social reformer the Reverend Henry Solly to the booze-soaked mid-century heyday, when more than 7 million Brits were members, this warm-hearted and entertaining book reveals how and why the clubs bec... + Read More
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Series: Come to This Court and CryHow the Holocaust EndsHardcover
Linda Kinstler9781541702592
$38.00HISTORY
Aug 23, 2022
In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: “After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’” Years later... + Read More
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Series: David StirlingThe Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SASPaperback
Gavin Mortimer9781472134585
$26.99HISTORY
Aug 30, 2022
Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military genius or in fact a shameless self-publicist who manipulated people, and the truth, for this own ends? In this gripping and controversial biography Gavin Mortimer analyses Stirling's complex character: the childhood speech impediment that shaped h... + Read More
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Series: David StirlingThe Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SASHardcover
Gavin Mortimer9781472134592
$42.99HISTORY
Nov 22, 2022
Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military genius or in fact a shameless self-publicist who manipulated people, and the truth, for this own ends? In this gripping and controversial biography Gavin Mortimer analyses Stirling's complex character: the childhood speech impediment that shaped h... + Read More
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Series: Debunking the 1619 ProjectExposing the Plan to Divide AmericaPaperback
Mary Grabar9781684513062
$21.99HISTORY
Aug 23, 2022
A resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times' infamous "1619 Project," labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears into the inaccuracies and misrepresentations, and brings actual American history back into focus. Essential ammunition for concerned parents and educators everywhere!It’s the New "Big Lie" According the New York Times’s "1619 Project," America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduct... + Read More
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Series: 9780374602543
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Series: Escape From the GhettoThe Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the NazisPaperback
John Carr9781529381597
$17.99HISTORY
Aug 02, 2022
'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett'This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has done an extraordinary and riveting job uncovering the real father behind the dad he thought he knew.' - Lord Tony Hall'Utterly Compelling. It is an extraordinary tale, brilliantly written' - Alastair Stewart'Extraordinary. An adventure story in the most terrible circumstances, a kid facing the most desperate dangers but taking fantastic risks with great boldness' - Fiona MacTaggart'The ... + Read More
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Series: 9781472850355
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Series: 9781472846211
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Series: Faces in the CrowdThe Jews of CanadaPaperback
Franklin Bialystok9781442604414
$62.95HISTORY
Jun 29, 2022
Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.The Jews were the first ethno-cultural minority to arrive in Canada, settling in Quebec in 1759. Their story is analogous to the experiences of subsequent immigrants as they arrived and settled into their new homes. Faces in the Crowd sheds light on the unique immigrant experience of the Jews in Canada by focusing on three processes: settlement, adaptation, and diversity. Drawing on case studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, Franklin Bialysto... + Read More
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Series: Fighting Techniques of the Elite ForcesHow to Train and Fight Like the Special Operations Forces of the WorldPaperback
Leroy Thompson9781510754485
$22.99HISTORY
May 09, 2023
Learn the trade secrets of special operatives. It is easy to visualize special operations troops as men in camouflage with painted faces, lurking in the shadows of modern warfare. But the truth is far more complex—and enthralling. A wide array of skills, both physical and cerebral, combines to make up the modern elite soldier. Fighting Techniques of the Elite Forces not only shows the road down which the specialist must travel to reach his place as one of the world's fighting elite, it details the equipment he uses to carry out his missions and... + Read More
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Series: FormidableAmerican Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020Hardcover
Elisabeth Griffith9781639361892
$47.00HISTORY
Aug 02, 2022
“An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.”—Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advan... + Read More
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Series: 9781472850928
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Series: 9781472853417
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Series: Governing Water in IndiaInequality, Reform, and the StatePaperback
Leela Fernandes9780295750439
$44.00HISTORY Grade (US) from 17
Oct 04, 2022
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy."Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the... + Read More
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Series: Great HatredThe Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MPMainHardcover
Ronan McGreevy9780571372805
$44.95HISTORY
Aug 23, 2022
THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil.'Heart-stopping . . . The book is both forensic and a page-turner, and ultimately deeply tragic, for Ireland as much as for the murder victim.'MICHAEL PORTILLO'Gripping from start to finish. McGreevy turns a forensic mind to a political assassination that changed the course of history, uncovering a trove of u... + Read More
New from the Smithsonian, the ultimate reference book on Native American communities and their past, present, and futureHandbook of North American Indians Volume 1 is the definitive introduction to Native American history and culture. The book provides a much-anticipated opening volume to the Smithsonian’s 20-volume series, the largest collection of knowledge on Indigenous peoples of the US, Canada, and Northern Mexico. The Smithsonian’s Handbook of North American Indians series spans decades, but this introductory volume includes updates on th... + Read More
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Series: Healing a Divided NationHow the American Civil War Revolutionized Western MedicineHardcover
Carole Adrienne9781639361854
$38.95HISTORY
Aug 09, 2022
"An exceptional look at the growth of health care spurred by the Civil War?"—David J Kent, award-winning scientist and author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America was rudimentary, unsanitary, and woefully underprepared to address what would become the bloodiest conflict on U.S. soil. However, in this historic moment of pivotal social and political change, medicine was also fast evolving to meet the needs of... + Read More
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Series: Hold the WestwallThe History of Panzer Brigade 105, September 19442022 EditionPaperback
Timm Haasler9780811739368
$34.95HISTORY
Aug 01, 2022
First book in English on Germany's failed experiment with independent armored brigades in World War II.
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Series: Hollywood in the KlondikeDawson City’s Great Film FindHardcover
Michael Gates9781550179965
$34.95HISTORY
Aug 27, 2022
In this exciting first-hand account of an unexpected cinematic discovery, Michael Gates delves into the history behind a hoard of silent films found buried beneath the permafrost of an Arctic gold rush town. In 1978, hundreds of reels of silent films were unearthed from beneath the demolished site of an old hockey arena in Dawson City, Yukon. Author Michael Gates witnessed the cinematic discovery of these once-lost films—and in this book excavates and illuminates the history of a gold rush town like no other. An event in the most unlikely of p... + Read More
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Series: HomewatersA Human and Natural History of Puget SoundPaperback
David B. Williams9780295751009
$26.99HISTORY Grade (US) from 17
Sep 27, 2022
Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region?s ecological complexities.Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and betwe... + Read More
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Series: In Defense of German ColonialismAnd How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the WestHardcover
Bruce Gilley9781684512379
$38.99HISTORY
Aug 02, 2022
Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished.Historian and university professor, Bruce Gilley, delves into the history of German colonialism from its earliest roots through the 20th century, demonstrating that contrary to modern presuppositions, it served as a global force for good—eleva... + Read More
This edition of Michael Wood’s groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans, and King Arthur, the ’once and future king’, for whose riddle Wood proposes a new and surprising solution. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of En... + Read More
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Series: John Stonehouse, My FatherThe True Story of the Runaway MPPaperback
Julia Stonehouse9781785788192
$24.95HISTORY
Aug 16, 2022
'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin Bell** The authoritative account of the infamous runaway MP, by his daughter **On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his i... + Read More
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Series: Labor under SiegeBig Bob McEllrath and the ILWU?s Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union EraPaperback
Harvey Schwartz9780295750330
$41.00HISTORY Grade (US) from 17
Oct 18, 2022
Big Bob?six-feet-four Robert McEllrath's waterfront handle?was heralded for his powerful speaking style, charisma, unifying vision, and negotiating prowess. President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for twelve eventful years, McEllrath retired in 2018 after nearly forty years as a union officer. More than just a telling of a storied career, Labor under Siege explores how the influential union persisted in an era when the US labor movement was under attack and seemingly in retreat.In the face of grave dangers since the ... + Read More
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Series: Life on the MississippiAn Epic American AdventureHardcover
Rinker Buck9781501106378
$44.00HISTORY
Aug 09, 2022
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails... + Read More
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Series: My Name Is SelmaThe Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück SurvivorPaperback
Selma van de Perre9781982164683
$24.99HISTORY
Aug 16, 2022
An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift).Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and event... + Read More
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Series: NapoleonThe Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821Hardcover
Michael Broers9781639361779
$53.95HISTORY
Aug 30, 2022
*A KIRKUS BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2022* An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life—from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile—as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811, Napoleon stood at his zenith. He had defeated all his continental rivals, come to an entente with Russia, and his blockade of Britain seemed, at long last, to be a success. The emperor had an heir on the way with his new wife, Marie-Louise, the young daughter of... + Read More
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Series: Operation Pineapple ExpressThe Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in AfghanistanHardcover
Lt. Col. Scott Mann9781668003534
$38.99HISTORY
Aug 30, 2022
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade—and 500 other Afghans—being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos. He passed through Fort Bragg’s legendary Q course and served alongside the U... + Read More
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.
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Series: Panzer Aces IIMore Battle Stories of German Tank Commanders in WWII2022 editionPaperback
Franz Kurowski9780811739252
$31.95HISTORY
Aug 01, 2022
Sequel to the well-regarded Panzer Aces. Chapters on Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Kurt Knispel, Karl Nicolussi-Leck, and other great commanders.
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Series: PartisansThe Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990sHardcover
Nicole Hemmer9781541646889
$40.00HISTORY
Aug 30, 2022
A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained by an optimistic vision of American exceptionalism, small government, and free markets. But as historian Nicole Hemmer reveals, the Reagan coalition was short-lived; it fell apart as soon as its charismatic leader left office. In the 1990s — a decade that has yet to be recognized as the breeding ground for today’s polarizing politics — changing dem... + Read More
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Series: Rise of the Cajun MarinersThe Race for Big OilPaperback
Woody Falgoux9781510769908
$26.99HISTORY
Sep 27, 2022
The story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history—the beginnings of what is now the global, multibillion-dollar marine oil and gas industry. In addition, it gives an insightful insider account of one of America’s only truly distinctive cultures—the Cajuns.The book tells the story through the Cajun boatmen who drive the boats that supply and move the men who work the offshore platforms. The book follows four of these... + Read More
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Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographySeattle from the MarginsExclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast CityHardcover
Megan Asaka9780295750675
$41.00HISTORY Grade (US) from 17
Sep 20, 2022
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force?consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants?municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears l... + Read More
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Series: SinkableObsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the TitanicHardcover
Daniel Stone9780593329375
$37.00HISTORY
Aug 16, 2022
From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS TitanicOn a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was fou... + Read More
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Series: Storied & Scandalous CharlestonA History of Piracy and Prohibition, Rebellion and RevolutionPaperback
Leigh Jones Handal9781493061853
$25.95HISTORY
Aug 01, 2022
Quaker William Penn once described "Charles Town" as “a hotbed of piracy,” full of wayward women “who frequented a tap room on The Bay and infected a goodly number of the militia with the pox.” Since the Carolina Colony was founded and named for Charles II, the Merry Monarch, it’s no surprise that Charlestonians have always had a flair for flouting the rules. In the 18th century, Bostonian Josiah Quincy complained that Charlestonians, “are devoted to debauchery and probably carry it to a greater length than any other people.” In Storied & Scan... + Read More
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Series: The Afghanistan PapersA Secret History of the WarPaperback
Craig Whitlock9781982159016
$25.99HISTORY
Aug 30, 2022
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock.Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a ... + Read More
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Series: The American CharacterForty Lives that Define Our National SpiritPaperback
Scott Ruesterholz9781637584712
$25.00HISTORY
Aug 16, 2022
In this fast-paced exploration of America’s ideals, readers will discover new insights about the pivotal moments in our nation’s history by learning about forty icons and the truly American values they embodied.America is the most powerful, influential nation on the planet today. However, its history has undergone significant debate and revision in recent years. This book provides a unique vantage point into our past by exploring the lives of key Americans and the role they played during pivotal moments. While our union has been imperfect, Amer... + Read More
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were against them. But a devastating victory was won and Japan's hopes of regaining the initiative in New Guinea destroyed. More importantly for Australians, the victory decisively removed any possibility that Australia might be invaded by Japanese forces... + Read More
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A Continent Erupts Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 Hardcover 9780393254655 $54.00 HISTORY Aug 23, 2022
About Time A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks Paperback 9781324021957 $24.95 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022
Bad Sex Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution Hardcover 9780593182765 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022
Governing Water in India Inequality, Reform, and the State Paperback 9780295750439 $44.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Oct 04, 2022
Series: Handbook of North American Indians Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1 Introduction Hardcover 9781944466534 $168.00 HISTORY May 02, 2023
Labor under Siege Big Bob McEllrath and the ILWU?s Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union Era Paperback 9780295750330 $41.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Oct 18, 2022
Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography Seattle from the Margins Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City Hardcover 9780295750675 $41.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Sep 20, 2022
Sinkable Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic Hardcover 9780593329375 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022