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Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
Ed West - Skyhorse
Format: eBook
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A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father's death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety.... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
David L. Roll - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World... |
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When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World
Alexandra Allred - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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An unapologetically candid and illuminating history of women and their fight for equality, told through the influential world of sports.From early Amazons to modern-day athletes, women have been fighting for their rightful place in the world. The history of these female athletes - whether... |
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
Katja Hoyer - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans?... |
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Buster: The Military Dog Who Saved a Thousand Lives
Will Barrow - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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"With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would... |
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Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
Ramachandra Guha - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence - the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule.Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country... |
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Martyn Rady - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An essential new history of Central Europe,the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history... |
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