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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright Publisher Comments Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia — the country where she was born — the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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1776 by David McCullough Publisher Comments In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he was able... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Americans call the Second World War The Good War.” But before it even began, Americas wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How Can One Sell the Air?: Chief Seattle's Vision by Eli Gifford Publisher Comments Now in a new format including the history of Chief Seattle's tribe and the Puget Sound region with many images of 19th century village life. Chief Seattle's impassioned plea to respect "the Sacred Web of Life" has become an inspiration to many. But what... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger Publisher Comments He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States) by Gordon Wood Publisher Comments In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become “... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe Publisher Comments In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W Toll Publisher Comments On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit by Joyce E Chaplin Publisher Comments In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy Seal by Eric Greitens Publisher Comments THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one mans story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Staff Pick I'm rather sure that all three of Stacy Schiff's previous works have been nominated for some award or another. With a pedigree like that, you know that her latest biography is bound to be a must-read. Stripping away all the previous misconceptions about... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel Publisher Comments A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE SLATE.COM THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND) THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITORWINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM It was the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 by Barrett Tillman Publisher Comments October 24, 1944: Six young American torpedo bombers were sent on a search-and-destroy mission in the Sibuyan Sea. Their target: the superbattleship Musashi, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The pilots were tasked with preventing the immense... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wait for Me!: Memoirs by Duchess Deborah Mitford Publisher Comments Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, “How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts Publisher Comments Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war—the grand strategy and the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R Morris Publisher Comments In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller Publisher Comments He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer Publisher Comments The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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