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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

MAX HASTINGS · Harper
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United...
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The White Darkness

DAVID GRANN · Doubleday
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed...
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

Roland Philipps · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The first full biography of one of the twentieth century's most notorious spies.Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man's betrayal...
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

KARA COONEY · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient...
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Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past

Paul Bahn · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux...
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII

ANTONY BEEVOR · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane...
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Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality

Brooks D. Simpson · Library of America
Pages: 675
Format: Hardcover

The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing There are few periods in American history more consquential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appomattox, when the battered nation...
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John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821

John Quincy Adams · Library of America
Pages: 741
Format: Hardcover

For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary...
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John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848

John Quincy Adams · Library of America
Pages: 775
Format: Hardcover

For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary...
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including...
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