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Back Bay Books, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men. Over.....
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1991. Trade Paperback.
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Doubleday, November 2008. Hardcover. Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, the acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer H. W. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and career, revealing the inner strengths as well as the unerring.....
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Harper Perennial, January 2023. Trade Paperback. "[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the "Enlighteners."... Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment's literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of this milieu." -- Wall Street.....
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Mariner Books, May 2008. Trade Paperback. An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers during the Golden Age of Piracy. In the early eighteenth century.....
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Harper Select, August 2024. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." -- Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their.....
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William Morrow Paperbacks, May 1999. Trade Paperback. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons.....
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Ecco, November 2015. Trade Paperback. A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England's most celebrated knight, William Marshal--providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it. Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to.....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2002. Trade Paperback. The New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical.....
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Back Bay Books, June 2015. Trade Paperback. The bestselling, "remarkable" (Marie Claire) memoir by the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world. "I come from a country that was created.....
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Countryman Press, September 2026. Trade Paperback. This immersive travelogue investigates the town that inspired Washington Irving's famous short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and dives into the storied history of the Headless Horseman's stomping grounds. Within the pages you'll visit the village's graveyard where Irving himself is buried and.....
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Anchor, October 2007. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West--"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West.....
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Penguin Group, June 1996. Trade Paperback. The Ottomans elude us, as mysterious now as they have been for four and a half centuries. Were they the bloodthirsty savages of one legend, spitting babies on their swords, and enslaving all who crossed their path? Or were they sybarites, with an eye.....
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St. Martin's Griffin, September 2013. Trade Paperback. "An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." --Daily Express (UK) In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the epic story of England itself. He takes us from the primeval forests.....
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Mariner Books, June 2001. Trade Paperback. Entertaining and informative, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists Dr. Plumb's impressive and provocative narrative is accompanied by contributions from leading historians, including Morris Bishop, J. Bronowski, Maria Bellonci, and many more, who have further.....
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Simon & Schuster, February 2020. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journal.
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Penguin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. This book is more than a chronicle of the facts of battle. It is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the men who fought at Verdun, and it also shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War--a key to the.....
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Basic Books, October 2016. Trade Paperback. An international bestseller An Economist Best Book of the Year The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East. "A page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival ... Remarkable." --Wall Street Journal.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, May 2006. Trade Paperback. For generations, Indian people suffered a grinding poverty and political and cultural suppression on the reservations. But tenacious and visionary tribal leaders refused to give in. They knew their rights and insisted that the treaties be honored. Against all odds, beginning.....
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Penguin Books, October 2015. Trade Paperback. cracked spine. cracked spine. The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America--winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York.....
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Vintage, October 2003. Trade Paperback. In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts.....
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Vintage, February 1988. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I've ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." --Los Angeles Times Digging deep.....
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Vintage, November 2015. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE - A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. "Masterly ... An astonishing achievement." --The New York Times.....
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Penguin Books, August 2010. Trade Paperback. "The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK) "A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary Review (UK) A unique and.....
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Harper Perennial, October 2007. Trade Paperback. "Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times." -- Publishers Weekly Paris 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst.....
