Category - History
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The Hour of Decision
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Reprint Edition. First published in 1934, the majority of this book was developed just prior to the Nazi seizure of power, with additional materi...
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A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe—a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as t...
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The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Early in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the ...
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Christianity and the New Age
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /First published in 1931, Christianity and the New Age offered a hard and inspired look at a world being torn apart by fascisms, communisms, mater...
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Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Released in 1969, the film Battle of Britain went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected Brit...
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Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the ten...
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Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Rembrandt's life coincided with what the Dutch refer to as their "golden age." This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic...
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Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires—vast states of territories and peoples united by forc...
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A National Book Award FinalistA "riveting" (New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empireOn January 30, 1889...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the 2019 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the 2018 American Academy of ...
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before…World War I was supposed to...
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle — a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of aff...
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lus...
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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 stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." — William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some th...
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Scotland: The Story of a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hailed as a “vast, superb history [that] relates Scotland’s past over a dozen millennia” ( Kirkus Reviews ), Magnusson draws on a great deal of m...
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Europe in the High Middle Ages
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."—New Statesman It was an age of hope and possibilit...
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The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Fall of France in 1940 is one of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. If the German invasion of France had failed, it is arguable th...
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The Anatomy of Fascism
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers ...
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The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, The Freedom Line is a page-turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Alli...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stun...
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation cha...
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (T...
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles...
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