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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge

Antony Beevor - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

The prize-winning historian and best-selling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account.On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his "last gamble" in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could...
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Josiah Ober - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses...
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The Art Of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History

Steven Jones - Applause; New Expanded edition
Format: Hardcover

This revised edition of The Art of Horror Movies includes more films, rare images, and in-depth explorations to bring this award-winning book completely up to date, cementing its position as the definitive and essential guide to horror movies. Through a series of informative chapters and fascinating...
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Country Music: An Illustrated History

Dayton Duncan - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019This gorgeously illustrated and hugely...
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII

John R Bruning - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback

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 of his youth to his fiery...
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World

Honor Cargill-Martin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The story of Messalina - third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken...
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Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution

D. Peter MacLeod - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

A huge, ambitious re-creation of the eighteenth-century Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) to win control of the trans-Appalachian region of North America, a battle consisting of the British and American colonists on one side and the French...
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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

Val Kilmer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade...
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Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England

Michael Livingston - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who'd come together to destroy them once and for all....
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In Levittown's Shadow: Poverty in America's Wealthiest Postwar Suburb (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Tim Keogh - University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback

Named one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly! There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs: after 1945, white residents left cities for leafy, affluent subdivisions and the prosperity they seemed to embody. In Levittown's Shadow tells us there's...
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