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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison By Ben Macintyre Cover Image
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison (Hardcover) By Ben Macintyre $28.99
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania By Erik Larson Cover Image
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Paperback) By Erik Larson $18.00
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant By Brad Ricca Cover Image
True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant (Paperback) By Brad Ricca $18.99
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Fascism: A Warning By Madeleine Albright Cover Image
Fascism: A Warning (Hardcover) By Madeleine Albright $27.99
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II By Alex Kershaw Cover Image
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II (Hardcover) By Alex Kershaw $30.00
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong By James R. Hansen Cover Image
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback) By James R. Hansen $18.00
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Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars By Nancy F. Cott Cover Image
Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars (Hardcover) By Nancy F. Cott $32.00
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World By Jonathan Freedland Cover Image
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Hardcover) By Jonathan Freedland $28.99
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Cover Image
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback) By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin $25.00
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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom By Larry Loftis Cover Image
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom (Hardcover) By Larry Loftis $32.99
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder Cover Image
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback) By Timothy Snyder $9.99
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction By Lynne Olson Cover Image
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction (Hardcover) By Lynne Olson $32.00
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century By J. Bradford DeLong Cover Image
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) By J. Bradford DeLong $35.00
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin By Erik Larson Cover Image
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Paperback) By Erik Larson $18.00
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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire By Ryan Gingeras Cover Image
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover) By Ryan Gingeras $47.95 Email or call for price.
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World By Jonathan Freedland Cover Image
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Paperback) By Jonathan Freedland $19.99
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out By Jeremy Atherton Lin Cover Image
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (Paperback) By Jeremy Atherton Lin $18.99
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War By Ben Macintyre Cover Image
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia By Paul L. Williams Cover Image
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia (Paperback) By Paul L. Williams $18.00
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance By Alvin Hall Cover Image
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance (Hardcover) By Alvin Hall $29.99
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His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine By S. C. Gwynne Cover Image
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine (Hardcover) By S. C. Gwynne $32.00
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Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco By Stephan Talty Cover Image
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco (Hardcover) By Stephan Talty $35.00
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent By Dipo Faloyin Cover Image
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham Cover Image
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Thunderstruck By Erik Larson Cover Image
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic By Walter Lord, Nathaniel Philbrick (Introduction by) Cover Image
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age By Reid Mitenbuler Cover Image
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age (Hardcover) By Reid Mitenbuler $45.00
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The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy #2) By Robert Kagan Cover Image
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy #2) (Hardcover) By Robert Kagan $35.00
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution By Tania Branigan Cover Image
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution (Hardcover) By Tania Branigan $29.95
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Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the Legend By Preston Lerner Cover Image
Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the Legend (Hardcover) By Preston Lerner $44.10
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War By Nicholas Mulder Cover Image
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (Paperback) By Nicholas Mulder $24.00
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp By Simon Parkin Cover Image
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation By Justice Malala Cover Image
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I By Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Image
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I (Mass Market) By Barbara W. Tuchman $8.99
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs By Wes Davis Cover Image
American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs (Hardcover) By Wes Davis $30.00
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The Irish Boarding House: Completely heart-warming Irish historical fiction By Sandy Taylor Cover Image
The Irish Boarding House: Completely heart-warming Irish historical fiction (Paperback) By Sandy Taylor $12.75
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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World By Bryan Appleyard Cover Image
The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World (Hardcover) By Bryan Appleyard $28.95
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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag By Craig Seligman Cover Image
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Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War  II By Bruce Henderson, Gerald Yamada (Afterword by) Cover Image
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The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao's Court By Yuan-Tsung Chen Cover Image
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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance By Joseph Luzzi Cover Image
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Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 By David McCullough Cover Image
Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Paperback) By David McCullough $22.00
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum Cover Image
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa By Adam Hochschild Cover Image
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Bosnian St. Louis: Between Two Worlds By Patrick McCarthy, Akif Cogo, Aleksandar Hemon (Introduction by) Cover Image
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos By Judy Batalion Cover Image
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire By Caroline Elkins Cover Image
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Hardcover) By Caroline Elkins $37.50
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir By Séamas O'Reilly Cover Image
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir (Hardcover) By Séamas O'Reilly $28.00
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