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  • The Wise Men

    Six Friends and the World They Made

    This “engrossing narrative” examines the six American statesmen who rebuilt the world after WWII—with a new introduction by the authors (The New York Times).Blending personal biography and geopolitical history*, Wise Men* introduces six close friends who used their power and influence to shape the role their country would play in the dangerous years following the Second World War. They were the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Code Girls

    The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

    by Liza Mundy ...
    The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The War Below

    The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

    by James Scott ...
    A “beautifully researched and masterfully told” account of the US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific (New York Times–bestselling author Alex Kershaw).Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s top submarines—Silversides, Drum, and Tang—The War Below vividly re-creates the camaraderie, exhilaration, and fear of the brave volunteers who took the fight to the enemy ... Read more

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  • Alexander the Great

    An accessible yet authoritative biography of the Macedonian king and legendary conqueror—“as racy and pacey as any novel . . . a rollicking read” (Wall Street Journal).Alexander the Great is one of the most enduring figures in history. His military mastery was of such renown that future leaders from Hannibal to Napoleon studied his strategy and tactics. In the brief spa of his life—crowned at age ... Read more

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  • Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy

    Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935–1961

    The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award"IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) • "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) •****"CAPTIVATING" (Missourian)A riveting international cloak-and-dagger epic r... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • And Still I Rise

    Black America Since MLK

    The companion book to the PBS series—a timeline and chronicle of the fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise explores a half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has had a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Master Slave Husband Wife

    An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

    by Ilyon Woo ...
    One of The New York Times’s10 Best Books of 2023New York Times BestsellerNamed a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, and PeopleThe remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wager

    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    by David Grann ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Think on These Things

    ‘The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Half American

    The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

    **• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction• A New York Times Notable Book• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont“Matthew F. Delmont’s book is filled ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Noble Ruin

    Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

    A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and mortal enemy of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), Antony played a leading role in the transformation of the Roman world. Ever since his and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Lena Horne

    Goddess Reclaimed

    by Donald Bogle ...
    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood’s first African American movie goddess.Lena Horne’s life and career are truly remarkable in American film history. She was the first Black performer to become a true star—to receive the kind of glamour treatment at ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Les grandes erreurs de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

    Series series Tempus
    Dans la lignée des Mythes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, vingt erreurs stratégiques d'envergure expliquées par une équipe d'historiens et la rédaction de Guerres & Histoire, dirigées par Jean Lopez et Olivier Wieviorka.La Seconde Guerre mondiale a duré près de six années, aussi longues que terribles. Cette durée s'explique, bien entendu, par les formidables moyens que les belligérants déployèrent ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

    In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The History of the Peloponnesian War (Complete Edition)

    Historical Account of the War between Sparta and Athens

    by Thucydides ...
    Translated by Richard Crawley ...
    This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les grandes histoires navales de la seconde guerre mondiale

    Series series Tribune libre
    La Seconde Guerre mondiale comme vous ne l'avez jamais vue, parcourue au gré des flots et d'aventures humaines hors du commun.Stalingrad, El Alamein... toutes ces batailles et opérations terrestres sont connues, ont été analysées et disséquées.La Seconde Guerre mondiale fit rage aussi sur les mers. Ce sont les combats et histoires navales les plus épiques, et les moins chroniqués, que l'auteur ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Achilles Trap

    Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

    by Steve Coll ...
    **“Excellent . . . A more intimate picture of the dictator’s thinking about world politics, local power and his relationship to the United States than has been seen before.” —The New York Times“Another triumph from one of our best journalists.” —The Washington Post"Voluminously researched and compulsively readable." —Air MailFrom bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Never Caught

    The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

    A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Watchmaker's Daughter

    The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

    by Larry Loftis ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFlorida Book Awards Gold MedalistNew York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Special Forces Berlin

    Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990

    The previously untold story of a Cold War spy unit, “one of the best examples of applied unconventional warfare in special operations history” (Small Wars Journal).It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two US Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Devil's Guard

    Condemned to death for the bloodbaths of World War II, they served their sentence—on the killing fields of Vietnam. The fascinating, true story of the French Foreign Legion’s Nazi battalionWHAT THEY DID IN WORLD WAS II WAS HITORY’S BLOODIEST NIGHTMARE.The ashes of World War II were still cooling when France went to war in the jungles of Southeast Asia. In that struggle, its frontline troops were ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

    by Ilan Pappe ...
    The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMANBetween 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ordinary Men

    Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

    “A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."—NewsweekChristopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.Ordinary Men is ... Read more

    $10.99 USD