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Non-WWII History

Non-WWII History

  • 1939 Countdown to War PB

    1939 Countdown to War PB

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    1939: Countdown to War by Richard OveryPaperback176 Pages2010 A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the...
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  • A Lucky Life Interrupted HB

    A Lucky Life Interrupted HB

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    A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hopeby Tom BrokawHardcover240 Pages20155¾ x 8½ inches From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling...
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    A Short History of War PB

    A Short History of War PB

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    A Short History of War by Jeremy BlackPaperback272 PagesNovember 2022 An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future “Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the...
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  • Churchill Warrior HB

    Churchill Warrior HB

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    Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest HoursBy: Brian LaveryHardcover448 Pages 2017 On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, issued numerous memos to the...
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  • Decision at Sea PB - Signed Copy

    Decision at Sea PB - Signed Copy

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    Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American Historyby Craig L. SymondsPaperback400 Pages From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action...
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  • Empress of The Nile HC

    Empress of The Nile HC

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    Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destructionby Lynne OlsonHardcoverFebruary 2023448 PagesThe remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient...
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  • Freedom from Fear HB

    Freedom from Fear HB

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    Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945by David KennedyHardcover270 Pages2001 Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the...
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  • History Wars - Paperback History Wars - Paperback

    History Wars - Paperback

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    History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past by Edward T. LinenthalPaperback295 PagesAugust 1996 From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at...
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  • n Many A Strife PB

    In Many A Strife PB

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    In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps 1917-1956 Allan R. Millet Paperback 512 pages 1993 This book chronicles the career of the man who helped shape the Marine Corps in the twentieth century by transforming them into a...
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  • Inventing Japan PB

    Inventing Japan PB

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    Inventing Japan: 1853-1964by Ian BurumaPaperback208 Pages2004 In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has...
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  • Japan's Modern Myths PB

    Japan's Modern Myths PB

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    Japan's Modern Myths   by Carol GluckPaperback424 Pages1987   Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before...
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  • New Orleans And The World HB

    New Orleans And The World HB

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    New Orleans & The World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial AnthologyLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Richard Campanella, Walter Isaacson, Lawrence Powell, Sally Reeves, Nancy DixonHardcover2017 New Orleans celebrates the 300th anniversary of its...
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  • Objects of War PB Objects of War PB

    Objects of War PB

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    Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement by Leora Auslander & Tara ZahraPaperback348 Pages2018 Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet...
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  • On The Corps HC

    On The Corps HC

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    On the Corps: USMC Wisdom from the Pages of Leatherneck, Marines Corps Gazette, and ProceedingsLt. Col. Charles P. Neimeyer USMC (Ret.)Hardcover 280 pages 2008 The purpose of this anthology is to serve as a ready resource of material that defines the...
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  • Projecting Empire PB

    Projecting Empire PB

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    Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinemaby James Chapman and Nicholas CullPaperback256 PagesJuly 2009Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With "Projecting Empire", Chapman and Cull have written the first major study...
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    Quotes of Franklin D. Roosevelt HB

    Quotes of Franklin D. Roosevelt HB

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    Quotations of Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt Hardcover32 Pages2010 America's 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the country's top office four times, making him the only president to serve more than two terms. FDR led the...
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  • Robert E. Lee and Me HC Robert E. Lee and Me HC

    Robert E. Lee and Me HC

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    Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty SeiduleHardcover304 Pages2021 "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane...
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  • Savage Continent PB

    Savage Continent PB

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    Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith LowePaperback496 Pages2013 The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe,...
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  • Saving Freud HC - Signed Copy

    Saving Freud HC - Signed Copy

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    Saving Freudby Andrew NagorskiHardcover352 Pages2022 A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.In March 1938, German soldiers...
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  • Sex in The Heartland PB Sex in The Heartland PB

    Sex in The Heartland PB

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    Sex in the Heartland   by Beth BaileyPaperback265 Pages2002   Sex in the Heartland is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and...
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  • Targeted Beirut HC-Signed Copy

    Targeted Beirut HC-Signed Copy

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    Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror By James Scott and Jack Carr Hardcover 464 Pages 2024 The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that...
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  • The Age of Eisenhower PB

    The Age of Eisenhower PB

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    The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950sby William I. HitchcockPaperback672 Pages2019 A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s...
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  • The Four Freedoms HC

    The Four Freedoms HC

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    The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Ideaby Jeffrey EngelHardcover248 Pages2015 The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union...
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  • The Girls Next Door HC

    The Girls Next Door HC

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    The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Fron Lines by Kara Dixon VuicHardcoverFeb 2019392 Pages The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the...
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  • The Internationalists HB

    The Internationalists HB

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    The Internationalists: How A Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro Hardcover 608 Pages 2017 A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928...
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  • The Path to War HB

    The Path to War HB

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    The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America by Michael S. Neiberg  (Author) Hardcover 320 Pages 2016   When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of...
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    The Pope of Physics PB The Pope of Physics PB

    The Pope of Physics PB

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    The Pope of Physics Gino SegrèPaperback372 Pages2017 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world’s physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called “the Pope” by his peers, he was regarded as...
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    The Treaty of Versailles HB

    The Treaty of Versailles HB

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    The Treaty of  Versailles    By: Michael Neiberg Hardcover136 Pages2017   Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very...
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  • The Unknowns HC

    The Unknowns HC

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    The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home Patrick K. O'Donnell Hardcover 288 Pages 2018 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery...
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    The US Army Cooks Manual HB

    The US Army Cooks Manual HB

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    The U.S. Army Cooks' Manual: Rations, Preparation, Recipes, Camp Cooking R. Sheppard Hardcover 270 Pages 2008 An army marches on its stomach—so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army...
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  • Torchbearers of Democracy PB Torchbearers of Democracy PB

    Torchbearers of Democracy PB

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      Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)   by Chad L. Williams (Author) Paperback 470 Pages August 2013   For the 380,000...
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    U.S. Airborne Divisions 1942-2018 - Paperback

    U.S. Airborne Divisions 1942-2018 - Paperback

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    United States Airborne Divisions 1942-2018 (Images Of War)by Michael GreenPaperback216 Pages2019 In 1942 the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were formed and three more followed. 17th and 92nd (All American Division) and 101st (Screaming Eagles) fought...
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  • Vicksburg HC

    Vicksburg HC

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    Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacyby Donald L. MillerHardcover688 Pages2019 The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split...
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  • Vintage Wedding - Paperback

    Vintage Wedding - Paperback

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    Vintage Wedding: Simple Ideas for Creating a Romantic Vintage Wedding (Vintage Living) by Daniela TurudichPaperback176 Pages2013 Returning to print in an expanded edition, this informative guide to planning a period wedding provides brides and wedding...
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  • We Return Fighting HC-Signed Copy

    We Return Fighting HC-Signed Copy

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    We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity By Krewasky Salter Hardcover 160 pages 2019 A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their...
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