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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved into... |
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
Marie Arana - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, American Library Association BOOKLIST s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary... |
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The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
James Romm - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this... |
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The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
Philip Zelikow - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men, and supplies were running short on all sides. The German chancellor secretly sought President Woodrow Wilson's mediation to end the war,... |
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand - Delacorte
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, which is also a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, has now been adapted by the author for young adults. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this riveting biography includes more than 100 black-and-white photos, as well as exclusive content,... |
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Daniel James Brown - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese heritage and the ways of their American homeland. They faced bigotry, yet they believed in their bright futures as American citizens. But within days of Pearl Harbor, the FBI was ransacking... |
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Ian W. Toll - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas) .Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest... |
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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Charles J. Hanley - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secretsThe war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern... |
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
John Matteson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America.December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's... |
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire... |
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
Phil Keith - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A truly inspiring story of courage and triumph." - Nelson DeMilleThe incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American... |
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