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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson Publisher Comments A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history — the Arab Revolt, and the secret game to control the Middle East. The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer Publisher Comments Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end on the walls of Constantinople... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett Publisher Comments The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia — a story of courage... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass Publisher Comments US... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings Publisher Comments From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as “freedom’s swift-winged angels.” In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Pacific Northwest Cheese: A History by Tami J. Parr Synopsis In this rich and engaging history, Tami Parr shows how regional cheesemaking found its way back to the farm. It’s a lively story that begins with the first fur traders in the Pacific Northwest and ends with modern-day small farmers in Oregon... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Story of the Holy Land: A Visual History by Peter Walker Publisher Comments A visual tour of the promised land, from the stark vistas of the Judean wilderness to the lush banks of Jordan, for those who want to see the places of the Bible from the comfort of their own homes—and from the best angles Laid out in a... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Che on My Mind by Margaret Randall Publisher Comments Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England 1216 by Sean Mcglynn Publisher Comments The first book on the important but overlooked French invasion of England in 1216, which was almost a second Norman Conquest History came within a hair's breadth of repeating itself, 150 years after the Norman Conquest. In 1216, taking advantage of the... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Mary Beard Publisher Comments Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand Publisher Comments To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time--a "collaboration... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America (Civil War America) by David T. Gleeson Publisher Comments Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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Hunters: U.S. Snipers in the War on Terror by Milo S. Afong Publisher Comments In the War on Terror, there are no set battles. The fanatical enemy adheres to no warrior code or international law. Their only desire is to killor be killed. Thats where the snipers of the U.S. Marines, Army, and Navy SEALs come in . .... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Mass Market
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The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-roper Publisher Comments The classic account of Hitler's fall from power, first published in 1947, reissued with a striking new cover In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe by Jo Roberts Publisher Comments 1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are. After... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past by Louis A. Perez Publisher Comments In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh Synopsis Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochets September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos by Robert Bauval Publisher Comments In this ground-breaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, and ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their research... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection (Images of Nature) by Judith Magee Publisher Comments A unique collection of botanical, zoological, and entomological drawings depicting the natural history of China This collection is a selection of some of the finest examples of Chinese natural history drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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