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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of littl...
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On ...
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Hannibal's War
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war h...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the dev...
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Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerHalf American is the history of World War II but including the events and actors that history books have long erased. T...
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle...
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Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943
HardcoverOriginal price $54.00Original price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00Current price $46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army f...
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African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's ...
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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilson's charge to make the world "safe for democracy" carried life-...
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Algeria: France's Undeclared War
HardcoverOriginal price $67.00 - Original price $67.00Original price $67.00$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other...
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In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Revealing never-before-told stories with the incisive thought and emotion of one who was there. "The author does not pull any punches...his story...
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"An utterly compelling account of the African Americans who played a crucial and dangerous role in the invasion of Europe. The story of their heroi...
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Ethiopia: A Captivating Guide to Ethiopian History and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Two manuscripts in one book: History of Ethiopia: A Captivating Guide to Ethiopian History The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia: A Captivating Guide t...
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The 600 m.o.l. - Black Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam: Tuskegee Glory - Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This book is aimed at sharing information about a population of men who engaged in military service to their country with duties involving aviation...
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Halgankii Gunnimadoonka
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /❝BUUGGANU WUXUU DULMARAYAA marxalad Soomaalida soo martay oo aan weli si buuxda loo soo tebin. Ibraahim Aadan Shire wuxuu si aqoon iyo xirfad leh ...
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We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /We the Young Fighters is at once a history of a nation, the story of a war, and the saga of downtrodden young people and three pop culture supersta...
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We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /We the Young Fighters is at once a history of a nation, the story of a war, and the saga of downtrodden young people and three pop culture supersta...
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Battling While Black: General Patton's Heroic African American WWII Battalions
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and yo...
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Battling While Black: General Patton's Heroic African American WWII Battalions
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and yo...
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The Soccer War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working prim...
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Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American po...
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review “Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”—W...
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Donald's War: The Diary of a Settler in the East Africa Campaign
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Donald Seth-Smith first came to British East Africa in 1904 as a young Oxford undergraduate to visit his older brother Martin, who had come to Keny...
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