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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
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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
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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
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“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]
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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
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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
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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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