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Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud Tower

Barbara W. Tuchman · Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly...
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Lost in Shangri-La

Mitchell Zuckoff · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A lost world man-eating tribesmen lush andimpenetrable jungles stranded American fliers one of them a dame withgreat gams for heavens sake a startling rescue mission This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff Whewwhat an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying...
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds Series)

DeAnne Blanton · Louisiana State University Press; 1st edition
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

“Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro....
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1776

David McCullough · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]

America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake...
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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Robert M. Edsel · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A poignant, fascinating story, bringing to life the soldier-scholars who saved Italys treasures.Evan Thomas, best-selling author of Ikes Bluff and Sea of Thunder When Hitlers armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankinds greatest cultural...
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings

Alison Weir · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Sister to Queen Anne Boleyn, she was seduced by two kings and was an intimate player in one of historys most gripping dramas. Yet much of what we know about Mary Boleyn has been fostered through garbled gossip, romantic fiction, and the misconceptions repeated by historians. Now, in her latest...
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