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All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey
Betsy Mason - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic... |
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A J BAIME - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into... |
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII
ANTONY BEEVOR - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane... |
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America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Margaret E Wagner - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEARFrom August 1914 through... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Steven Ujifusa - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into... |
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Gladiators: Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
Christopher Epplett - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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A history of gladiators - with an added bite!It's hard for modern readers to truly grasp the spectacle that was arena sports in ancient Rome, which pitted man against man and man against beast in mortal combat. Our modern games of football and hockey, or even boxing and MMA, truly pale... |
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
IAN BLACK - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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From a long-time Guardian correspondent and editor, an expansive, authoritative, and balanced account of over a century of violent confrontation, war, and occupation in Palestine and Israel, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and 50th anniversary of the Six-Day... |
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly... |
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Mike Wallace - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving... |
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Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great
Richard A. Billows - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of Marathon, an enlightening look at the historical context behind Alexander the Great, his accomplishments, and his legacyIn the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe.... |
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Delaware in World War I
Brigadier General Kennard R. Wiggins Jr. (DE ANG Retired) - History Press (SC)
Format: Paperback
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Delawares experience in the Great War was that of an awakening. What had been a pastoral collection of farms and merchants was rapidly transformed into a dynamic, economically thriving society. From the immense munitions contribution of the DuPont Company to burgeoning shipbuilding on the Wilmington... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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Confederate Prisoners at Fort Delaware: The Legend of Mistreatment Reexamined
Joel D. Citron - McFarland
Format: Paperback
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During the Civil War, each side accused the other of mistreating prisoners of war. Today, most historians believe that there was systemic and deliberate abuse of POWs by both sides yet many base their conclusions on anecdotal evidence, much of it from postwar writings. Drawing on both contemporaneous... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
PETER WATSON - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between World War II allies--resulting in a threat of nuclear war that still haunts us today.Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War by building an atomic... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind... |
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No Access Washington, DC: The Capital's Hidden Treasures, Haunts, and Forgotten Places
Beth Kanter - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Paperback
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No Access Washington, DC tells a story of the nation's capital through places in, near, under, over, or around the city - a collection of spaces that most people don't see, can't see, rarely see, don't know how to see, or haven't seen. Come journey beneath DC's most... |
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Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
JULIO MACLENNAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original and innovative examination of the continent -- and its culture -- that was the epicenter of the world for almost five centuries. European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today's nations were... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookSHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time... |
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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart Van Es - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood... |
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
KEITH O'BRIEN - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and cities... |
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Book
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
MAX WALLACE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction "A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution." -- Kirkus starred review On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening... |
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Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
Jean R. Soderlund - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved... |
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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
PATRICK SPERO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution.In 1763, the Seven Years' War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing... |
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound... |
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured... |
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Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
Porter Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A quest to rediscover America's other border -- the fascinating but little-known northern one.America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries -- much of the early... |
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
Will Englund - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance... |
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The Hamilton Cookbook: Cooking, Eating, and Entertaining in Hamilton's World
LAURA KUMIN - Post Hill Press
Format: Paperback
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The Hamilton Cookbook takes you into Hamilton's home and to his table, with historical information, recipes, and tips on how you can prepare food and serve the food that our founding fathers enjoyed in their day.What was it like to eat with Alexander Hamilton, the Revolutionary War hero,... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
Arthur Herman - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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This is the story of two men and the two decisions that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilsons entry into World War I and Lenins Bolshevik Revolution.In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation, advocate for free trade... |
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Miracle in the Cave: The 12 Lost Boys, Their Coach, and the Heroes Who Rescued Them
Liam Cochrane - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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Featuring never-before-reported details and exclusive interviews with the boys, their families, and rescue workers, the inspiring true story of how twelve members of the Wild Boar Academy Football Club and their coach survived nine days in a labyrinthine cave in Northern Thailand, and of the incredible... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed biographer... |
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean -- all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasnt all that . . . [Catharine Arnolds] new biography focuses -- deliciously -- on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful... |
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G Calloway - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time--Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle--and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape,... |
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Kevin M. Kruse - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times." -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesWhen -- and how -- did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer... |
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Peter Ackroyd - St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today. --Daily Express UKIn Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the epic story of England itself. He takes us from the primeval forests of Englands prehistory to the death,... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution
ROBERT C COTTRELL - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural... |
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The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder King James I
BENJAMIN WOOLLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing account of the conspiracy to kill King James I by his handsome lover, the Duke of Buckingham, an historical crime that has remained hidden for 400 years.The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber... |
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A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
Jay Sexton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises--not unlike those of the present day--have determined our nation's course from the startIn A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress,... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
BRIAN VANDEMARK - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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King Edward VIII: An American Life
Ted Powell - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before he fell in love with Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII had fallen in love with America. As a young Prince of Wales, Edward witnessed the birth of the American century at the end of the First World War and, captivated by the energy, confidence, and raw power of the USA as it strode onto... |
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Presidents of War
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation... |
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September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series
Skip Desjardin - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series. This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle in France,... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
GEOFFREY WAWRO - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of America's decisive role in World War I The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic.... |
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A Little History of Archaeology
BRIAN FAGAN - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art.... |
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Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
Leslie Umberger - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A major new look at the work of one of Americas foremost self-taught artists. Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation,... |
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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Lucy Worsley - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman... |
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Amy S. Greenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk--a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk... |
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Lincoln and Churchill: Statesmen at War
LEWIS E LEHRMAN - Stackpole Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lewis E. Lehrman, renowned historian and National Humanities Medal winner, gives new perspective on great statesmen and their leadership in wars of national survivalAbraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, as commanders in chief, led their nations to victory in wars of national survival - Lincoln... |
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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
JOHN F LEHMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe,... |
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in government, based on a decade of original archival research, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn"This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have... |
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Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was -- again -- at war with France, a war that would end with... |
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun,... |
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Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate
Sally Fallon Morell - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Paperback
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Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions, debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate--and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished, todayThe Paleo craze has taken over the world. It asks curious dieters... |
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than... |
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age
Daniel Schönpflug - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the aftermath of World War I, a transformative time when a new world seemed possible -- told from the vantage of people, famous and ordinary, who lived through the turmoilNovember 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start... |
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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Laura Engelstein - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr... |
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1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
D Stevenson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War I David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows... |
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Ruthless Tide: The Tragic Epic of the Johnstown Flood
AL ROKER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times bestselling author, NBC Host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker.May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall - nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours - swelled the Little... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Holger Hoock - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best... |
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier... |
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The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
MALACHY TALLACK - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map.... |
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true. The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag... |
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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History
EDWARD BURMAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor,... |
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Prohibition: A Concise History
W J Rorabaugh - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states... |
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
Sean McMeekin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:... |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart... |
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Stephen R Platt - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Opium War--a vivid narrative of the earliest Western efforts to open China to trade and the resulting war that ensured the decline of imperial China.When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Sam Maggs - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fun and feminist celebration of the forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond - from the bestselling author of The Fangirls Guide to the Galaxy.You may think you know womens history pretty well. But have you ever heard of: * Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective... |
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Untold Stories of Polish Heroes from World War II
Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm - Hamilton Books
Format: Paperback
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A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based - but not just the "great" people. Biographies of "average"... |
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
Samantha Seiple - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her writing and her activism Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa... |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
R.G. Grant - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial... |
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Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
GEORGE C DAUGHAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution.George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much... |
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
Leanda De Lisle - PublicAffairs; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britains civil wars... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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The Story of Britain: A History of the Great Ages: From the Romans to the Present
Roy Strong - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and sweeping history of Britain from the Romans to the present day -- in a newly revised edition for the next generation of readers.The Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins -- and explain how the past shaped the nation's... |
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War
Marianne Monson - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Peter Stark - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of AstoriaTwo decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young... |
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The Family Tree Irish Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Ancestors in Ireland
CLAIRE SANTRY - FAMILY TREE Books
Format: Print book
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Discover your Irish roots! Trace your Irish ancestors from American shores back to the Emerald Isle. This in-depth guide from Irish genealogy expert Claire Santry will take you step-by-step through the exciting--and challenging--journey of discovering your Irish roots. You'll learn how to identify... |
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Congo Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed
John Prendergast - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling and award-winning NOT ON OUR WATCH, John Prendergast co-writes a compelling book with Fidel Bafilemba--with stunning photographs by Ryan Gosling--revealing the way in which the people and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo... |
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The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower
Yaakov Katz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense... |
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Noel Rae - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,... |
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