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The Age of Empires by Robert Aldrich Publisher Comments The story of thirteen modern empires told with a rich profusion of illustrations drawn from a wide range of vivid, authentic sources. Images of empire are extraordinarily potent. Spanish memories of the Conquistadors; Camöes' saga of the Portuguese "... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $12.97 Sale - Hardcover 
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons by Al Ventner Publisher Comments It is called the "Club of Nine," the exclusive group of nations that have detonated nuclear weapons. Apart from the major powers, its membership also includes, India, Pakistan, and Israel. More recently, its membership was blighted by North Korea. Based... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara by Andrew Sinclair Publisher Comments These features, which are fully complemented with posters, intimate photographs and other ephemera, will ensure that this is an essential purchase for anyone interested in this enduring icon, and the legacy he left behind.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice by Malalai Joya Publisher Comments Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T Kryza Publisher Comments In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers– – and fortune hunters– – than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments A Day in the Life is the story of how the ideal marriage between two young and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class fell apart as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way to the harsh, hard-rock reality of the seventies. A... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Rhyming History of Britain: 55 B.C.- 1966 A.D. by James Muirden Publisher Comments This cheerful poem has been written To tell the history of Britain; For People puzzled by the Past— If this means YOU, heres help at last! From Celts to Churchill, it relates (With all the most Important Dates) Our countrys convoluted course... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis Francia Publisher Comments The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land by Frank Welsh Synopsis Acclaimed historian Welsh traces the history of Australia from scattered convict settlements to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, and on to today's thriving independent nation, exposing many national myths in the process.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay Publisher Comments First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins Publisher Comments “An extraordinary act of historical recovery.”The New Yorker As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb Publisher Comments This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A History of Russia by Nichola Riasanovsky Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond... (read more) List Price $56.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp Publisher Comments To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now... (read more) List Price $93.50 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To the author,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Life of Columba: An Abridged Translation of Adamnan's Vita by Adamnan Publisher Comments The great sixth century saint and founder-abbot of Iona, St. Columba, left a mark on history that endures to this day far beyond Celtic lands. An account of his life and deeds has come down to us in the writings of Adamnan, ninth abbot of Iona, who drew... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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