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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Revolutionary War as never told before.

The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,...

 
 
The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) --a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book...

 
 
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America

Kinshasha Conwill · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present...
 
 
The three Churches of St. Joseph of Marksville: The story of the Three buildings to house St. Joseph Catholic Church of Marksville and the priests who built them

Rev. JULIUS JANEAU · Independently published
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback

THE DIARY OF REV. JANEAU WITH OTHER SKETCHES ABUT THE BUILDING OF THREE CHURCH BUILDINGS OVER THE YEARS
 
 
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Sarah Rose · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory

In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed Britain was locked in an existential...
 
 
Presidents of War

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS · Crown
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives

Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took...
 
 
100 Years of Air Power and Aviation

Robin Higham · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century Robin Higham, regarded by many as the dean of aviation historians, presents a critical history of British, American, Soviet, German, Italian, French, Japanese, and Israeli aviation. He moves easily from theory to concrete example and back...
 
 
These Truths: A History of the United States

JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.

The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political...
 
 
The Flood of 1912: 100th Anniversary Centennial Album of the Mississippi Valley Flood

Brian Costello · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

A gallery of photographs and headlines of the disastrous Mississippi River flood of 1912. Photographs from the upper Mississippi Valley to the parishes of Louisiana. Content March of 1912 Opening Timeline Map of valley Ohio: Freemont Indiana: Logansport Nebraska: Valley Illinois: Future...
 
 
Avoyelleans at Vicksburg: The story of Vicksburg and the men from Avoyelles Parish who served there during the Civil War

Randy DeCuir · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 68
Format: Paperback

Avoyelles Parish, with its location near the junction of the three main waterways of the Atchafalaya, Mississippi and Red Rivers, sat at the center of much activity during the Civil War. And with more than 1000 able bodies young men in its population, Avoyelles was a major supplier of troops...
 
 
The chosen wars : how Judaism became an American religion

Steven R Weisman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"The Chosen Wars tells the dramatic story of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the 18th and 19th centuries--the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, importantly, the force of the American dynamic that prevailed over an ancient religion. The struggles...
 
 
Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill · Anchor
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest...
 
 
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

Andrew Morton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne.

"You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance."...
 
 
Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends

William Guarnere · Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tom Hanks introduces the rousing story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army-members of an elite unit of the 101st...
 
 
"My brothers have my back": Inside the November 1969 Battle on the Vietnamese DMZ

Lou Pepi · McFarland & Company
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback

In November 1969, what Time Magazine called the "largest battle of the year" took place less than two miles from the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. Three companies of Task Force 1-61 met 2,000-3,000 North Vietnamese. American forces fought for two days, inflicting heavy casualties...