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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe · Picador
Pages: 352 Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Kinshasha Conwill · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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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... |
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Presidents of War
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS · Crown
Pages: 752 Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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100 Years of Air Power and Aviation
Robin Higham · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960 Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Flood of 1912: 100th Anniversary Centennial Album of the Mississippi Valley Flood
Brian Costello · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 184 Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The chosen wars : how Judaism became an American religion
Steven R Weisman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"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... |
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Plagues and Peoples
William McNeill · Anchor
Pages: 368 Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends
William Guarnere · Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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"My brothers have my back": Inside the November 1969 Battle on the Vietnamese DMZ
Lou Pepi · McFarland & Company
Pages: 225 Format: Paperback
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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... |
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