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Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Jacqueline Riding · Bloomsbury
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell · Amazon Publishing
Pages: 570
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert... |
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Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
Michael Knox Beran · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Arguing that it is "less the quality of the crimes than the attitude of the age which determines the gruesomeness of its murders," Michael Beran brings to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, and gives us a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility... |
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Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo · Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history—the most intimate and richly readable account we have had—of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg July 13, 1863, which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier,... |
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Carlotta Gall · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover
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Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government... |
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Sylviane A. Diouf · New York Univ. Press
Pages: 403
Format: Hardcover
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Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves... |
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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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