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Valley Forge

BOB DRURY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter...
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Sent to Hell from Ann Arbor: A College Student's World War One

Carl E.W.L. Dahlstrom · Quaker Abbey Press, LLC
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Joining the Army in his junior year at the University of Michigan, 21 year old Carl Dahlstrom was assigned to a truck convoy taking artillery shells to the front and hauling wounded to the rear at WWI battles on the Western Front.
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Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth

William E. Connolly · Duke University Press Books
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

In this new installation of his work, William E. Connolly examines entanglements between volatile earth processes and emerging cultural practices, highlighting relays among extractive capitalism, self-amplifying climate processes, migrations, democratic aspirations, and fascist dangers....
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation

John Sedgwick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.

Blood Moon is the story of the century-long...
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

CATHERINE KERRISON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers.
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

H. W. Brands · Basic Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas...
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

LYNN VINCENT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, thanks to years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II - and the fifty-year...
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII

John R Bruning · Hachette Books
Pages: 523
Format: Hardcover

In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.

From the knife fights and smuggling runs...
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

Lawrence Goldstone · Ballantine Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss,...
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The Red River Campaign and Its Toll : 69 Bloody Days in Louisiana, March-May 1864

Henry O Robertson · McFarland & Company
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

"This book takes a fresh look at the fierce battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, the Union army's escape from Monett's Ferry and the burning of Alexandria, and explains the causes and consequences of the war in Central Louisiana"--
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history - the historical backdrop for Game of ThronesThe crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought...
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

Doug Stanton · Pocket Books
Pages: 576
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The New York Times bestselling "spellbinding true-life story" (USA TODAY) of a United States Special Forces team deployed to the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains in the weeks immediately following 9/11, overcoming great odds to become heroes of our era - now a major motion...
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Sam Kean · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been...
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US Prisoners of War in the Korean War

Arden A Rowley · Turner
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Dedicated to all 1.3 million U.S. service Men and Women who served in Korea during the Korean War - 1950-1953: 103,000 who were wounded 36,000 who were killed 7,140 who became POWs 8,100 who are still missing in action ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL.
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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

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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