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Tears in the Darkness
Michael Norman
From Publishers Weekly
This grimly absorbing history revisits the worst ordeal Americans experienced during WWII. Michael Norman,...
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D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Antony Beevor
The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945
From critica...
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Beyond Band of Brothers
Cole C. Kingseed, Dick Winters
Publisher's Summary
In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.
They were called Easy Company, but th...
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A History of the Middle East
Peter Mansfield
Over the centuries, the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. In this classic work, Peter Man...
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Peoples And Empires
Anthony Pagden
Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
This addition t...
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Anthology of Mythology
Mythology has provided an intellectual foundation for the modern world, and has provided inspiration for story tellers and scienti...
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The Young Lions
Irwin Shaw
A Great WWII Novel on Par with The Red Badge of Courage, A Farewell to Arms, The Naked and the Dead, and Catch-22.
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The Devil Came on Horseback
Brian Steidle
Though Cummings seems younger and more nae than the narrator of this appalling history, he does convey the growing disbelief and r...
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Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing...
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American Conspiracies
Dick Russell, Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura tells it like it is, and this time he tackles our government's biggest secrets.
In this explosive account of wrongf...
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This Sceptred Isle
Christopher Lee
To form a view of where Britain is at today, and indeed when it has been here before, take a look at This Sceptred Isle--Twentieth...
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Within The Hollow Crown
Margaret Campbell Barnes
Set against the backdrop of a country racked by revolt and class warfare, Within the Hollow Crown showcases the true spirit of a k...
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Mosby's Rangers
Jeffry D. Wert
No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than Mosby's Rangers, the elite guerrilla until that operated with stunni...
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The Nightmare Years
William L. Shirer
Shirer tells of his own experiences as a foreign correspondent in Europe during Hitler's domain....
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The Pacific
Hugh Ambrose
In this follow-up to his late father's Band of Brothers, which tracked a single army unit from Georgia to the battlefields of Euro...
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History of the World
J. M. Roberts
This scholarly resource has much to offer researchers. Roberts begins with a discussion of the prehuman past and continues up unti...
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The Imperial Cruise
James Bradley
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congress...
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The Dream of Reason
Anthony Gottlieb
Publisher's Summary
In this landmark new study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thi...
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