1.
Series:
Every Drop of Blood
The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
Hardcover
Edward Achorn
9780802148742
$41.95
HISTORY
Mar 13, 2020
A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story—Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington’s Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the gre...
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Series:
The Quiet Americans
Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts
Hardcover
Scott Anderson
9780385540452
$30.00 USD
HISTORY
Sep 01, 2020
“Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as skilled as Anderson.” —The New York Times Book Review A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts...
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3.
Series:
The History of the Panzerwaffe
Volume 3: The Panzer Division
Hardcover
Thomas Anderson
9781472833891
$54.50
HISTORY
Jan 21, 2020
The first two volumes of the History of the Panzerwaffe covered the story of this legendary fighting force throughout World War II: this third title details the organization and development of some of its most famous units--the German Panzer Divisions.The first two volumes of the History of the Panzerwaffe have described how the Germans transformed armored warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts, and how the legendary Panzerwaffe overran Western Europe and reache...
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4.
Series:
Pandemic 1918
Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Hardcover
Catharine Arnold
9781250139436
$38.50
HISTORY
Aug 28, 2018
Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu — Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history. In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but world-wide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish Flu”. Nowhere ...
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5.
Series: Truth to Power
Friendly Fire
How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future
Hardcover
Ami Ayalon
9781586422585
$36.00
HISTORY
Sep 08, 2020
FINALIST—The National Jewish Book AwardIn this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for “the enemy” and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian public will support violence, because they have nothing to lose. Researching and writing Friendly Fire, he came to understand that his patriotic life had blin...
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11.
Series:
Fallout
The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
Hardcover
Lesley M.M. Blume
9781982128517
$36.00
HISTORY
Aug 04, 2020
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating ...
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12.
Series:
The Panzer Killers
The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
Hardcover
Daniel P. Bolger
9780593183717
$40.00
HISTORY
May 25, 2021
A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler’s panzer crewsTwo months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton needed an officer who knew ...
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13.
Series:
Blood Runs Coal
The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
Hardcover
Mark A. Bradley
9780393652536
$36.95
HISTORY
Oct 13, 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime
The shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal.
In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months earlier, Yablonski had announced his campaign to oust the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embez...
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14.
Series:
The Zealot and the Emancipator
John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
Hardcover
H. W. Brands
9780385544009
$40.00
HISTORY
Oct 06, 2020
From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and ...
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15.
Series:
Humankind
A Hopeful History
Hardcover
Rutger Bregman
9780316418539
$38.00
HISTORY
Jun 02, 2020
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that ...
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16.
Series:
Assassination in Vichy
Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France
Paperback
Gayle Brunelle
9781487588366
$31.95
HISTORY
Oct 07, 2020
During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the following morning launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy’s murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the “Cagoule,” a violent right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy’s murder and...
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17.
Series:
The Moth and the Mountain
A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Hardcover
Ed Caesar
9781501143373
$37.00
HISTORY
Nov 17, 2020
“An outstanding book.” —The Wall Street Journal * “Gripping at every turn.” —Outside * “A gem of a book.” —The Guardian * “A hell of a ride.” —The Times (London) An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its...
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18.
Series:
Oh Happy Day
Those Times and These Times
Hardcover
Carmen Callil
9780224090308
$41.00
HISTORY
Dec 22, 2020
Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger – a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century EnglandIn this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Sary Lacey, born illegitimate in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker in Leicestershire. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet Georg...
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19.
Series:
Bound by War
How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
Hardcover
Christopher Capozzola
9781541618275
$44.00
HISTORY
Jul 28, 2020
A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfareEver since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by War, historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos.As the US military expanded in Asia, American forces confronted their Pacific rivals from Philippine ba...
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20.
Series:
Who Ate the First Oyster?
The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
Paperback
Cody Cassidy
9780143132752
$23.00
HISTORY
May 05, 2020
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire—and most critically, who was the first to brave the slimy, pale oyster?In this book, writer Co...
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22.
Series:
The Virginia Dynasty
Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
Hardcover
Lynne Cheney
9781101980040
$48.00
HISTORY
Sep 22, 2020
A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe—from the bestselling historian and author of James Madison.From a small expanse of land on the North American continent came four of the nation’s first five presidents—a geographic dynasty whose members led a revolution, created a nation, and ultimately changed the world. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were born, grew to manhood, and made their homes within a sixt...
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23.
Series:
Searching for Stonewall Jackson
A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America
Hardcover
Ben Cleary
9781455535804
$39.00
HISTORY
Jul 16, 2019
Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He was a slave owner who fought and died, at least in part, to perpetuate slavery, yet he founded an African-American Sunday School and personally taught classes for almost a decade. For all his sternness and rigidity, Jackson was a deeply thoughtful and incredibly ...
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24.
Series:
The Great Secret
The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Hardcover
Jennet Conant
9781324002505
$36.95
HISTORY
Sep 08, 2020
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germ...
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25.
Series:
The Fight for History
75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
Hardcover
Tim Cook
9780735238336
$35.00
HISTORY
Sep 08, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country’s emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian n...
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26.
Series:
Magdalena
River of Dreams
Hardcover
Wade Davis
9780735278929
$39.95
HISTORY
Sep 15, 2020
A captivating new book from Wade Davis—award-winning, bestselling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade—that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterful new book, the bestselling author tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nat...
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27.
Series:
The Cubans
Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Hardcover
Anthony DePalma
9780525522447
$37.00
HISTORY
May 26, 2020
"[DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see . . . You won't forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma's bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island . . . A remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor."--The New York TimesModern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesit...
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29.
Series:
Best of Enemies
The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Hardcover
Eric Dezenhall
9781538761311
$36.50
HISTORY
Oct 02, 2018
The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent...
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30.
Series:
The Unidentified
Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
Hardcover
Colin Dickey
9780525557562
$36.00
HISTORY
Jul 21, 2020
"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --BuzzfeedAmerica's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomenaIn a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures.Ente...
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31.
Series:
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor
Hardcover
Paul Dickson
9780802147677
$44.95
HISTORY
Jul 17, 2020
In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and Marines were fully engaged with Japan in the Pacific.The story of America’s astounding i...
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32.
Series:
A Furious Sky
The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Hardcover
Eric Jay Dolin
9781631495274
$39.95
HISTORY
Aug 04, 2020
Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV spectacles, unaware of how far-ranging their impact can be. As best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin contends, we must look to our nation’s past if we hope to comprehend the consequences of the hurricanes of the future.
With A Furious Sky, Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounter...
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33.
Series:
Café Europa Revisited
How to Survive Post-Communism
Paperback
Slavenka Drakulic
9780143134176
$23.00
HISTORY
Jan 05, 2021
An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism.An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europa and A Guided Tour of the Museum Of Communism, takes a look at what has chang...
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34.
Series:
The Taste of Longing
Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook
Paperback
Suzanne Evans
9781771134897
$28.95
HISTORY
Sep 21, 2020
Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit – the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the e...
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35.
Series:
Rome - City in Terror
The Nazi Occupation 1943-44
Hardcover
Victor Failmezger
9781472841285
$47.50
HISTORY
Sep 22, 2020
From the street fighting that heralded the German occupation to the Gestapo repression that followed, this is the gripping story of the German occupation of Rome from the Italian armistice in September 1943 until the Allied liberation of the city on June 5, 1944.In September 1943, following wave upon wave of Allied bombing, Italy announced an armistice with the Allies. Shortly afterwards, the German Army disarmed Italian forces and, despite military and partisan resistance, quickly overran Rome. Rome – City in Terror is a comprehensive history ...
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36.
Series:
Carville's Cure
Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice
Hardcover
Pam Fessler
9781631495038
$38.95
HISTORY
Jul 14, 2020
The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shameful” disease.The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America’s most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated—often against their will and until their deaths.
Following the trail of an une...
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37.
Series:
A Traitor to His Species
Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
1st edition
Hardcover
Ernest Freeberg
9780465093861
$38.00
HISTORY
Sep 22, 2020
From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these debates, Henry Bergh launched a shocking campaign to grant rights to animals.A Traitor to His Species is revelatory social history, awash with colorful characters. C...
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38.
Series:
The Naughty Nineties
The Triumph of the American Libido
Hardcover
David Friend
9780446556293
$42.00
HISTORY
Sep 12, 2017
THE NAUGHTY NINETIES: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed age when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality TV, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend--an editor at Vanity Fair--combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade’s signal personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to...
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39.
Series:
America and Iran
A History, 1720 to the Present
Hardcover
John Ghazvinian
9780307271815
$50.00
HISTORY
Jan 26, 2021
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America—two powers who were once allies and now adversaries—by an admired historian and former journalist.In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth century—the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams—...
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40.
Series:
The Year of Dangerous Days
Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
Hardcover
Nicholas Griffin
9781501191022
$35.99
HISTORY
Jul 14, 2020
In the tradition of The Wire, the harrowing story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s most bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutality—from journalist and award-winning author Nicholas GriffinMiami, Florida, famed for its blue skies and sandy beaches, is one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations, with nearly twenty-three million tourists visiting annually. But few people have any idea how this unofficial capital of Latin America came to be. The Year of Dangerous...
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41.
Series:
Ten Days in Harlem
Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
Main
Hardcover
Simon Hall
9780571353064
$37.50
HISTORY
Sep 18, 2020
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionized the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary – arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage. Fidel’s shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the ico...
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42.
Series:
The Year 1000
When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Hardcover
Valerie Hansen
9781501194108
$39.99
HISTORY
Apr 14, 2020
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world’s great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, the...
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44.
Series:
Sex with Presidents
The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House
Hardcover
Eleanor Herman
9780062970565
$34.99
HISTORY
Sep 22, 2020
In this fascinating work of popular history, the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings and The Royal Art of Poison uncovers the bedroom secrets of American presidents and explores the surprising ways voters have reacted to their leaders’ sex scandals.While Americans have a reputation for being strait-laced, many of the nation’s leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. John F. Kennedy swam nude with female staff in the White House swimming pool. Is it possibl...
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45.
Series:
Ravenna
Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Hardcover
Judith Herrin
9781846144660
$53.95
HISTORY
Oct 27, 2020
WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE, 2020Shortlisted for THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE, 2021Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, 2020A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ’Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light on one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.’ Peter Frankopan ’A wonderful new history of the Mediterranean from the fifth to eighth centuries through a lens focussed on Ravenna, gracefully and clearly written, which reconceptualizes what was “East” a...
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49.
Series:
Brit(ish)
On Race, Identity and Belonging
Paperback
Afua Hirsch
9781784705039
$21.99
HISTORY
Nov 27, 2018
From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson’s major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You’re British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.So why do people keep asking where you’re from?We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch’s personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for cha...
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50.
Series:
Sicily '43
The First Assault on Fortress Europe
Hardcover
James Holland
9780802157188
$44.95
HISTORY
Nov 13, 2020
A major new history of one of World War II’s most crucial campaigns—the first Allied attack on European soil—by the acclaimed author of Normandy ’44 and a rising star in military historyOn July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, inv...
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53.
Series:
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
Hardcover
Steven Johnson
9780735211605
$37.00
HISTORY
May 12, 2020
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.”Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift...
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54.
Series:
The Organ Thieves
The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Hardcover
Chip Jones
9781982107529
$37.00
HISTORY
Aug 18, 2020
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without ...
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55.
Series:
Vanguard
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Hardcover
Martha S. Jones
9781541618619
$38.00
HISTORY
Sep 08, 2020
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own.In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied b...
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56.
Series:
The Good American
The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian
Hardcover
Robert D. Kaplan
9780525512301
$40.00
HISTORY
Jan 26, 2021
The sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of—Bob Gersony, who’s spent four decades in crisis zones around the world—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography.The Good American is a story about courage, intense loneliness, and the State Department’s golden age during the late Cold War and post-Cold War. It is also a celebration of ground level reporting and getting a worm’s eye view of crisis zones. Robert Gersony, a high-school dropout later awarded a bronze star in Viet...
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58.
Series:
The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
Hardcover
Jonathan Kaufman
9780735224414
$37.00
HISTORY
Jun 02, 2020
“In vivid detail…examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties.”—The Boston Globe“Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China’s past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China’s modern history.”—LA Review of BooksAn epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistShanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city’s famous wa...
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59.
Series:
Saving Stalin
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
Hardcover
John Kelly
9780306902772
$38.00
HISTORY
Oct 06, 2020
During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world.In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. Unofficially, he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin--the man who had killed over six million Ukrainians during the 1930s--was worth saving.In this riveting and sweeping narrative, author John Kelly chronicles the turbulent wartime relationship be...
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60.
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Mad and Bad
Real Heroines of the Regency
Paperback
Bea Koch
9781538701010
$23.99
HISTORY
Sep 01, 2020
Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history -- until now.Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white, Christian members of the upper classes.But there are hundreds of fascinating women who don't fit...
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