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First Women
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God Save Texas
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Castles of Steel
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“A thrilling action ride of a book” ( The New York Times Book Review )—from Jerry ...
Spain: A History
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Out of the division and strife of the Middle Ages, Spain emerged from behind the Pyrenee...
The Barbarians
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Here is the dramatic story of the barbarians, beginning with the epochal event that shoo...
Columbine
April 6, 2009
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EXPANDED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE "The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horr...
Undaunted Courage
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the definitiv...
The Devil in the White City
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On Grand Strategy
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A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author ha...
The Operator
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This instant New York Times bestseller—“a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account” ( New ...
Last Hope Island
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Killing England
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The Revolutionary War as never told before. The breathtaking latest installment in Bill ...
The Grandees
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Rise and Kill First
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
January 3, 2017
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NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal ...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
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Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Wash...
Killing the Rising Sun
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'...
Empire of the Summer Moon
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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account...
With the Old Breed
May 1, 2007
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“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed . He beca...
Isaac's Storm
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline w...
Meet You in Hell
May 10, 2005
United States
Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of A...
The Last Gunfight
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Rocket Men
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The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankin...
The Silk Roads
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“This is history on a grand scale, with a sweep and ambition that is rare… A pr...
The Stowaway
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who ...
The Radium Girls
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A New York Times , USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! " the glowing ghosts o...
In the Garden of Beasts
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Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a re...
Dead Wake
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes t...
13 Hours
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The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the ...
The Warmth of Other Suns
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wil...
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
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World
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his...
The Oregon Trail
June 30, 2015
History
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Aw...
The Warrior Ethos
April 26, 2013
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Wars Change, Warriors Don't We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to defin...
Lone Survivor
June 12, 2007
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On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afg...
Killing Kennedy
October 2, 2012
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
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“Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-y...
1776
May 24, 2005
United States
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking exci...
Band of Brothers
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Stephen E. Ambrose’s iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who becam...
The River of Doubt
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The R...
The Path Between the Seas
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The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a ...
The Proud Tower
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The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegr...
The Crusades
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Looking into the past, the Crusades seem incomprehensible. What combination of religious...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
March 7, 2017
History
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In thi...
The American Spirit
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United States
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the U...
White Rage
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Not...
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“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges...
The Good Years
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This New York Times bestseller by the author of A Night to Remember explores America in ...
The Wright Brothers
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-t...
Escape from Camp 14
March 29, 2012
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Hidden Figures
September 6, 2016
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The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathemati...
The Lost City of Z
February 24, 2009
History
The #1 New York Times bestseller - now a major motion picture starring&...
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
November 9, 2015
Ancient
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New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account...
The Residence
March 8, 2016
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The Last Stand of Fox Company
November 10, 2009
Military
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings an...
Washington's Spies
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original se...
Hiroshima
May 17, 2017
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Hiroshima is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories o...
The Templars
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“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one fin...
Endurance
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the Sou...
Ordinary Men
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Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged German...
Lost in Shangri-La
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A New York Times bestseller and the winner of the Winship/PEN New England Award, Lost in...
Killing Lincoln
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A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassinati...
Twelve Years a Slave
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Killing Reagan
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From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan , a pa...
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor o...
Outlaw Platoon
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A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s...
The Nazi Officer's Wife
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#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the ...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
September 26, 2011
Europe
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book...
Inside Delta Force
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Now the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, "The Unit." Delta Force. They are the ...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to cover up their ...
Thunderstruck
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A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.” In Thu...
The Only Thing Worth Dying For
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Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adven...
1491 (Second Edition)
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The Billion Dollar Spy
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting s...
Citizens of London
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Military
The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes ...
On Wings of Eagles
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United States
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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United States
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Shadow Divers
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Military
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect ...
American Heritage History of the United States
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United States
"Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book...
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D-Day
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Black Hearts
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17 Carnations
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A People's History of the United States
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Battle Cry of Freedom
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Prodigiously researched and engrossing."--- New York Times Book Rev...
The Lessons of History
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A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is t...
Clouds of Glory
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United States
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
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The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history ...
The Making of a Slave
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The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave written by Willie Lynch is widely cons...
Lucky 666
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“A fast-paced, well-researched…irresistible” ( USA TODAY ) World War II aviation a...
A Distant Mirror
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Europe
Barbara W. Tuchman—the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Gu...
The Gathering Storm
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The first volume of Winston Churchill's six-volume memoirs as a statesman and leader dur...
The Last Lion: Volume 2
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Europe
Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of W...
Blood in the Water
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United States
WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZE NAT...
Stamped from the Beginning
April 12, 2016
History
A searing history of how racist ideas were created, disseminated, and entrenched in Amer...
Eleanor and Hick
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United States
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hicko...
The Corporation
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“A mob saga that has it all—brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glitterin...
Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and ent...
The Rescue Artist
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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National ...
The Odyssey of Echo Company
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Military
A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author ...
In the Shadow of Statues
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important ...
Reflections of a Warrior
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PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reco...
Stasiland
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Europe
“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heart...
The Histories (Illustrated Edition)
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Ancient
Herodotus , also known as the “Father of History,” lived in the 5th century B.C...
Killer Elite
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Military
For the first time ever, the explosive truth behind the world's most secret Special Oper...
The Marshall Plan
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United States
The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history beh...
The Gilded Age
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"Rugoff's spirited and immensely beguiling book takes a joyful bite out of the nineteent...
The Terror Years
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Middle East
With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally ac...
The Minutemen and Their World
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United States
Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World , first published in 1976, is...
The Worst Journey in the World
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Only twenty-four when he joined the Scott expedition, an intellectual Englishman desirou...
Bruce Catton's America
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United States
No one has ever told America's story with more grace, clarity, and emotional power than ...
The Woman's Hour
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History
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the...
A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II
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History
The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary...
President McKinley
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United States
“A deft character study of a president.”— The New York Times Book Review “A valu...
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.
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United States
A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, ava...
Blood River
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Africa
A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. M. Stanley in this “...
