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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

Bill O'Reilly · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction...
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Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans (American War Heroes)

James D. Hornfischer · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

From James D. Hornfischer, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers, a riveting account of the life of WWII hero Commander Ernest E. Evans and his heroics and sacrifice during the Leyte Gulf Battle of Samar.For the first time ever, acclaimed naval historian...
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History

Anthony E. Kaye · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion -- and the new definitive account. . In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived...
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Yukikaze's War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific

Brett L. Walker · Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover

Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for Yukikaze...
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Project Eagle: The Top-Secret OSS Operation That Sent Polish Spies behind Enemy Lines in World War II

John S. Micgiel · Stackpole Books
Format: Hardcover

After the Battle of the Bulge - which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate - the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) , forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe. Confronted with staff shortages and needing native language...
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan · Viking
Format: Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time...
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