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Series: 1945: Victory in the West Hardcover Peter Caddick-Adams 9781529151701 $63.95 HISTORY Jul 26, 2022

March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town.In Victory in the West 1945 acclaimed military historian Peter Caddick-Adams brings this closing stage of the Allies’ fight against Nazi Germany brilliantly to life. He explores the immense challenges they faced in cross... + Read More
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Series: 634 Maneras de matar a Fidel Planes de la CIA y la Mafia para asasinar a Fidel Castro Paperback Fabian Escalante 9781925756340 $24.95 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

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 Few Bad Men The True Story of U.S. Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America Hardcover Major Fred Galvin, USMC (Ret.) 9781637584132 $38.99 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of U.S. Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men.Ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed by their own leaders—these elite Marines fought for their lives again, back home. A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gun... + Read More
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Series: Above the Reich Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words Paperback Colin Heaton 9780593183892 $24.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

NOW IN PAPERBACK: Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War IIThey are voices lost to time. Beginning in the late 1970s, five veteran airmen sat for private interviews. Decades after the guns fell silent, they recounted in vivid detail the most dangerous missions that made the difference in the war. Ed Haydon dueled with the deadliest of German aces—and shot him out of the sky. Robert Johnson racked up 27 kills in his P-47 Thunderbolt, but nearly lost his life when his plane was shot to ri... + Read More
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Series: Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 The Winning of American Independence Hardcover Phillip Thomas Tucker 9781510769359 $35.99 HISTORY Jul 26, 2022

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: America at War World War I through the Tabloids Paperback Vincent Rospond 9780989692663 $42.00 HISTORY Jun 21, 2022

The first world war as seen in the US through gazettes and newspapers. At home and abroad. New and not usually found pictures and illustrations.Containing more than two-hundred and fifty photos and drawings, this volume examines the early months of the US entry into the first world war, what was shown and how it was shown – in the US and the allies around the world. Many of these photos have not seen the light of day for many decades. Each section is accompanied by a description and background to place the photos in context.
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Series: Americanon An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books Paperback Jess McHugh 9781524746643 $24.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

Now in paperback, the “illuminating, engaging and absorbing” (BookPage, starred review) history of thirteen books that defined a nation.Surprising and delightfully engrossing, Americanon explores the true history of thirteen of the nation’s most popular books. Overlooked for centuries, our simple dictionaries, spellers, almanacs, and how-to manuals are the unexamined touchstones for American cultures and customs. They sold tens of millions of copies and set out specific archetypes for the ideal American, from the self-made entrepreneur to the h... + Read More
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Series: Arab Indianapolis Hardcover Edward E. Curtis IV 9781953368270 $41.95 HISTORY Jun 17, 2022

An accessible, intimate look at the oft-neglected history of Arab Americans in Greater Indianapolis who have made a remarkable impact on the region since the late 1800s.From establishing local businesses to working in the fields of health care and education, Arab Americans have made indelible contributions to the cultural vitality, economic growth, and social fabric of central Indiana. Arab Indianapolis features the stories of Arab Americans—some famous, some not—who have shaped the Capital City’s past and will continue to define its future. It... + Read More
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Series: Battles of Conscience British Pacifists and the Second World War Hardcover Tobias Kelly 9781784743949 $42.95 HISTORY Jun 28, 2022

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitmentsAccounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten.Tobias Kelly invites us... + Read More
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Series: Broken Icarus The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism Hardcover David Hanna 9781633886766 $38.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2022

In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World’s Fair of 1933, as well as the field of flight’s more sinister ties to fascism domestic and abroad to present a unique history that is both riveting and revelatory.
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Series: Building That Bright Future Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans Paperback Samira Saramo 9781487523497 $34.95 HISTORY Jul 07, 2022

Building that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union.In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers’ society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finn... + Read More
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Series: Canada's Past and Future in Latin America Paperback Pablo Heidrich 9781487540432 $37.95 HISTORY Jun 09, 2022

Canada’s Past and Future in Latin America examines the evolution of political, economic, and social ties between Canada and Latin America.Many historians and political scientists argue that ties between Canada and Latin America have been weak and intermittent because of lack of mutual interest and common objectives. Has this record of diverging paths changed as Canada has attempted to expand its economic and diplomatic ties with the region? Has Canada become an imperialist power? Canada’s Past and Future in Latin America investigates the histor... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Spy Story Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police Hardcover David A. Wilson 9780228011170 $39.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2022

In the mid-nineteenth century a group of Irish revolutionaries, known as the Fenians, set out to destroy Britain’s North American empire. Between 1866 and 1871 they launched a series of armed raids into Canadian territory.In Canadian Spy Story David Wilson takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination, spanning Canada, the United States, Ireland, and Britain. In Canada there were Fenian secret societies in urban areas, including Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto... + Read More
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Series: Civil War Weapons An Illustrated Guide to the Wide Range of Weaponry Used on the Battlefield Paperback Graham Smith 9781510756434 $39.99 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

Learn about the evolution of weapons by studying the design of the Civil War weapons cataloged in this attractive, full-color reference book. More than three million Americans fought in the Civil War and over six hundred thousand men, or two percent of the population, died in this dreadful conflict. Its impact is still felt today, for the war shaped our nation, and our national character. Studying the weapons used by both the Union army and Confederate forces tells an intriguing story of its own.The well-equipped Union army had access to the be... + Read More
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Series: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History Converging Empires Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945 Hardcover Andrea Geiger 9781469659275 $128.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic le... + Read More
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Series: Corsets To Camouflage Women and War Paperback Kate Adie 9780340820605 $22.99 HISTORY Jun 21, 2022

'The paciest and most entertaining history book to come my way' Ian McIntyre, The Times'Riveting and beautifully illustrated' The Lady'Engrossing . . . far more than a sartorial survey' The Oldie* * * * * * A vivid history of ordinary women and their extraordinary deeds through two world wars and beyond, by From Our Own Correspondent presenter Kate Adie.Uniform is universally seen as both a stamp of authority and of official acceptance. But the sight of a woman in military uniform still provokes controversy. Although more women are now taking... + Read More
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Series: Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) An American History Paperback Dr. Ada Ferrer 9781501154560 $27.00 HISTORY Jun 28, 2022

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the st... + Read More
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Series: Damn' Rebel Bitches The Women of the '45 Paperback Maggie Craig 9781910948293 $21.99 HISTORY Jun 28, 2022

’A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account’ Scots MagazineToo many historians have ignored the role of women in the ’45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn’ Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Drawn from original documents and letters, Maggie Craig brings their stories to life in this often touching and always engrossing reframed history.’A modern classic’ The Herald ’Bold ... + Read More
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Series: Danger Close! A Vietnam Memoir Hardcover Phil Gioia 9780811771207 $35.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2022

Danger Close! recounts the Vietnam War from the unique boots-on-the-ground perspective of a young officer who served two tours in two different divisions. He tells his story thoughtfully, straightforwardly, and vividly, from the raw emotions of unearthing massacred human beings to the terrors of fighting in the dark, with tracers slicing the air.
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Series: Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War Hardcover Zhuqing Li 9780393541779 $36.95 HISTORY Jun 21, 2022

Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nat... + Read More
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Series: Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights Paperback Theresa Kaminski 9781493066421 $28.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2022

“History has long neglected the inspiring and incredible tale of Dr. Mary Walker, a pioneering Civil War surgeon who overcame rampant prejudice to save countless soldiers’ lives. In Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War, Theresa Kaminski has finally given this American hero her due. With impeccable research and engaging prose, Kaminski captures Walker’s outsized bravery and delicious swagger. The result is a vivid, eloquent portrait sure to thrill history buffs and anyone fascinated by the lives of audacious, before-their-time women.” — Karen Abbott, N... + Read More
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Series: Extraordinary Valor The Fight for Charlie Hill in Vietnam Hardcover William Reeder Jr. 9781493063673 $35.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2022

Extraordinary Valor is the true story of American Special Forces officer John Duffy, and South Vietnamese paratrooper, Le Van Me, as they fight to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central Highlands during North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive. The battalion has received the order to "Fight to the death" on Charlie Hill, and many of them do in fact die, as they make a last stand.
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Series: Fabric The Hidden History of the Material World Hardcover Victoria Finlay 9781639361632 $43.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us.How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relatio... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Feeding Istanbul The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning Paperback Candan Turkkan 9781642597721 $39.50 HISTORY Jun 17, 2022

How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of our conceptualisation of the relationship between the sovereign ... + Read More
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Series: Feeding Washington's Army Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 Hardcover Ricardo A. Herrera 9781469667317 $37.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

In this major new history of the Continental Army's Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and coldest days of the American Revolution: the Valley Forge winter. Here, the army launched its largest and riskiest operation—not a bloody battle against British forces but a campaign to feed itself and prevent starvation or dispersal during the long encampment. Herrera brings to light the army's herculean efforts to feed itself, support local and Conti... + Read More
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Series: Fire Island A Century in the Life of an American Paradise Original Hardcover Jack Parlett 9781335475183 $35.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

*AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022*A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past centuryFire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop.Now, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination—its histor... + Read More
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Series: First People The Lost History of the Khoisan Paperback Andrew Smith 9781776191840 $21.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

An illuminating exploration of early Southern African hunters and herders.In First People, archaeologist Andrew Smith examines what we know about Southern Africa's early people, drawing on evidence from archaeological sites and rock art, the observations of colonial-era travellers, linguistics, and the study of the human genome.Smith has studied the history and prehistory of the Khoisan throughout his long and distinguished career. These communities represent the early groups of hunter-gatherers and herders and the oldest human lineages of Afri... + Read More
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Series: W&N Military From the Ground Up Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII Paperback Edward Smithies 9781474625074 $19.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN'The horrors have not been suppressed. Everyone who speaks was very young then. You sense their wonder that they did the things they recall' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYWhen we remember the Second World War in the air, we think of fighter pilots and bomber crews. But what was it like for the men and women working as ground crew and in the aircraft factories who also played a crucial role in defeating Hitler? What ... + Read More
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Series: Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World Paperback Anna Procyk 9781487545734 $35.95 HISTORY Apr 29, 2022

This book explores the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1.Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the de... + Read More
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Series: Gold, Grit, Guns Miners on BC's Fraser River in 1858 Paperback Alexander Globe 9781553805847 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 15, 2022

Gold, Grit, Guns is the first book based on the only four surviving diaries written by miners who sought their golden fortunes on British Columbia?s Fraser River in 1858. What was life like for those adventurers? How did their actions impact the creation of British Columbia? George Beam, an Illinois-born settler on Whidbey Island in Washington State, brought hopes of American annexation and distrust of First Nations. He left with a thousand dollars. Otis Parsons of Connecticut made money as a California merchant, then volunteered to build new r... + Read More
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Series: Her Majesty The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album Hardcover Robert Jobson 9781906670955 $49.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

When Princess Elizabeth became Queen on 6 February 1952, following the death of her father, George VI, few could have anticipated that she would go on to become Britain's longest-reigning monarch; a figure revered around the world for her wisdom, dedication and sense of duty. Seventy years on, and Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee will see the nation come together to celebrate a truly historic landmark. Over a special, four-day bank holiday weekend in early June 2022, millions of well-wishers from the UK, the Commonwealth and beyond will take part... + Read More
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Series: How to Build an Aircraft Carrier The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain's Biggest Warship to Life Paperback Chris Terrill 9781405942522 $21.99 HISTORY Jul 26, 2022

The enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s largest ever warship’Fascinating, often funny and sometimes moving…Terrill takes us deep into the bowels of Britain’s biggest warship…Exhilarating’ The Times65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that’s home to up to fifty Aircraft. HMS Queen Elizabeth is the biggest ship in the Royal Navy’s history and one of the most ambitious and exacting engineering projects ever undertaken in the UK.But it’s ... + Read More
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Series: In Search of the Dark Ages Hardcover Michael Wood 9781785947766 $53.95 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022

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: In the Houses of Their Dead The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits Hardcover Terry Alford 9781631495601 $36.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination... + Read More
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Series: In the Shadow of the Gods The Emperor in World History Hardcover Dominic Lieven 9780735222199 $54.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven’s expansive book explores strengths and failings of the human beings who held those empires together (or let them crumble). ... + Read More
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Series: Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies Property & madness in eighteenth-century London Paperback Leo Hollis 9780861543045 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London‘Brilliant’ Financial Times ‘Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world’s greatest cities’ Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London June 1701, and a young widow wakes in a Paris hotel to find a man in her bed. Within hours they are married. Yet ... + Read More
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Series: Legacy of Empire Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel Paperback Gardner Thompson 9780863564826 $22.95 HISTORY Jun 17, 2022

It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire’s historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too as to the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. In Legacy of Empire, Gardner Thompson offers a clear-eyed review of political Zionism and Britain’s role in shaping the history of Palestine and Israel.Thompson explores why the British government adopted Zionism in the early twentieth century, issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and... + Read More
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Series: Let Me Take You by the Hand True Tales from London's Streets Paperback Jennifer Kavanagh 9780349144245 $19.99 HISTORY Jul 05, 2022

In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface, the streets of London in 1861 and in 2019 are entirely different places. But dig just a little and the similarities are striking and, in many cases, shocking. Taking Mayhew's book as inspiration, Jennifer Kavanagh explores the changes and continuities by collecting and mapping stories from today'... + Read More
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Series: Lion City Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia Hardcover Jeevan Vasagar 9781408713600 $34.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia's first globalised city.... + Read More
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Series: Lives Between The Lines A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant Hardcover Michael Vatikiotis 9781474613194 $36.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on the fringes of a turbulent Europe.The Middle East is understood today through the lens of unending conflict and violence. Lost in the litany of perpetual strife and struggle are the layers of culture and civilisation that accumulated over centuries, and which give the region its cosmopolitan identity. It was once a region known poetically as the Le... + Read More
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Series: Loot Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition) Paperback Barnaby Phillips 9780861543137 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 28, 2022

A tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of artA Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and an... + Read More
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Series: Mercury Rising John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War Paperback Jeff Shesol 9781324022114 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War—a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival—and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, ... + Read More
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Series: Miraflores San Antonio's Mexican Garden of Memory Paperback Anne Elise Urrutia 9781595349361 $45.95 HISTORY Jun 24, 2022

Aureliano Urrutia, a prominent physician in Mexico City, built Miraflores garden after immigrating to Texas during the Mexican Revolution. A man of science, he valued nature, art, literature, history, and community. The garden, whose name roughly translates to “behold the flowers,” was built primarily from 1921 to 1945. Its plants, architecture, sculpture, and artisanship formed a cultural landscape reflecting Urrutia’s love for and memory of his homeland. Though recent decades have rendered much of the garden decayed and barely recognizable, i... + Read More
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Series: Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic Essays for Catherine B. Shannon Hardcover Mary Kelly 9781782054993 $60.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2022

This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon?s scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished scholars and social-justice activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays illuminate the historical relationship between Ireland and North America over past centuries. They offer new readings of the transatlantic crosscurrents that shape our understanding of Irish emigration and North American settlement, and constructions of e... + Read More
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Series: Night Boat to New York Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815–1931 Hardcover Erik Hesselberg 9781493044498 $51.95 HISTORY Jul 15, 2022

Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers,... + Read More
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Series: Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day Hardcover Brian Groom 9780008471200 $34.99 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2022’The definitive history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants.
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Series: O Say Can You Hear? A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner" Hardcover Mark Clague 9780393651386 $38.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

The fascinating story of America’s national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today.Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light, he was inspired to pen his famous lyric. What Americans don’t know is the story of how this everyday “broadside ballad,” one of thousands of such topical songs that captured the events and emotions of earl... + Read More
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Series: Oh Happy Day Those Times and These Times Paperback Carmen Callil 9780099548560 $21.99 HISTORY Jun 28, 2022

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... + Read More