Category - History
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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
HardcoverOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In the tradition of Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic ...
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Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy'...
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Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book do...
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Samurai: A Concise History
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of th...
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Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities, but the first and most valuable treasures they l...
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya. This is imperial history at its very best."—John Hope Franklin In "a gripping narrative t...
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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, ...
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Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Yasutaro Soga’s Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai‘i Japanese during ...
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1938: Hitler's Gamble
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this masterful narrative, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh chronicles Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power over the course of one year. Un...
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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"In every way, A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the...
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The Long War for Britannia, 367-664: Arthur and the History of Post-Roman Britain
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"For those interested in the history and myths from the Dark Ages, then this book will provide some fresh new ideas that are worth reading about....
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one ...
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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilizatio...
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The Gallic Wars
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Julius Caesar's firsthand account of wars he fought in Gaul between 58 and 52 BC, in seven books one for each year. This edition is NOT a "mass m...
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The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and The Making of Rome
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the fri...
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The Protestant Reformation: Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Originally published more than forty years ago, this important collection—now revised and updated—brings together the works and writings of the r...
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The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian Kershaw Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the...
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight — and keep fighting — for a lost cause in World War IIIn The German War, acclaimed hi...
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Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In October 1941 Hitler launched Operation Typhoon the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chanc...
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The Discovery of Guiana
PaperbackOriginal price $6.35 - Original price $6.35Original price $6.35$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "Guiana", the Venezuelan regio...
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We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /From pre-Hitler Germany to Kristallnacht, a lastminute escape from the Holocaust, and on to a life on three continents, this book catalogs the ex...
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Gender and the Politics of History
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and...
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To The Bitter End
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /When on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly placed inside the Wolf's Lair (Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia) by the German Anti-Nazi Resistance—exp...
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The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Smith argues ...
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