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  • The Year of Peril

    America in 1942

    A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War IIThe Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Watchmaker's Daughter

    The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

    by Larry Loftis ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Florida Book Awards Gold MedalNew 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sexuality in Europe

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Dagmar Herzog ...
    Series Book 45 - New Approaches to European History
    This original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • No Sacrifice Too Great

    The 1st Infantry Division in World War II

    Series series American Military Experience
    The U.S. 1st Infantry Division (1st ID), familiarly known as the Big Red One, adapted to dynamic battlefield conditions throughout the course of its deployment during World War II by innovating and altering behavior, including tactics, techniques, and procedures. Both the Division’s leaders and soldiers accomplished this by thinking critically about their experiences in combat and wasting little ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Endpapers

    A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

    “A powerfully told story of family, honor, love, and truth . . . the beautiful and haunting stories told in this book transcend policy and politics.” —Beto O’RourkeA literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stealth

    The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft

    On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

    A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban.Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbán’s illiberal ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A House in the Mountains

    The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

    Series Book 4 - The Resistance Quartet
    "Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." —Wall Street JournalThe acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet—the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy’s fascist regime during World War II.**In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shanghai Diary

    A Young Girl?s Journey from Hitler?s Hate to War-Torn China

    by Ursula Bacon ...
    By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as the last resort for tens of thousands of Jews desperate to escape Hitler's "Final Solution." Against this backdrop, 11-year-old Ursula Bacon and her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wizard and the Prophet

    Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

    **From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • Driving the Green Book

    A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

    by Alvin Hall ...
    Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers experienced locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent encounters almost everywhere, in both the South and the North. From 1936 to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kurt Vonnegut

    Letters

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNewsweek/The Daily Beast • The Huffington Post • Kansas City Star • Time Out New York • Kirkus ReviewsThis extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • DER FÜHRER

    Hitler’s Rise To Power

    by Konrad Heiden ...
    Konrad Heiden, the son of a union organizer, was born in Munich, Germany, on 7th August 1901. While at the University of Munich he led protests against Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). The historian, Richard Overy, has pointed out: "Heiden was a young socialist student in Munich when he first saw Hitler speak. It was 1923, the year of inflation and political ... Read more

    $3.29 USD

  • Budapest 1900

    A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture

    by John Lukacs ...
    A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers of the world, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Mother, a Serial Killer

    by Hazel Baron ...
    A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice.Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kindand caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and looked forward to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Sand and Steel

    The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France

    Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the ... Read more

    $24.99 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

  • The China Mirage

    The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia

    by James Bradley ...
    From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engagement in Asia. Now comes his most engrossing work yet. Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Spy and the Traitor

    The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction**If anyone could be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Only in Asheville

    An Eclectic History

    A unique blend of visionaries, risk takers and creative souls lends energy to Asheville's historic streets. Today, bohemian street performers, funky shops, exquisite art galleries, restaurants and craft breweries blend in among some of the most revered vintage architecture in the country. Discover quirky figures like a "nun" named Sister Bad Habit, who entertains passengers on the LaZoom bus; the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence and Crime in Latin America

    Representations and Politics

    According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Written by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl Girls

    The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

    by Lydia Reeder ...
    **“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyThe Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.**In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • India

    De onzichtbare gigant

    by Gie Goris ...
    India wordt de volgende wereldmacht, hoor je vaak. Dat klopt niet. India is al een wereldmacht. Het land is cruciaal voor een stabiele wereldpolitiek, de mondiale economie en de aanpak van milieu- en klimaatuitdagingen. Met 945 miljoen stemgerechtigden is het de grootste democratie ter wereld. India is een kernmacht - alleen de VS en China besteden meer aan defensie - en doet volop mee in de space ... Read more

    $16.89 USD

  • Hidden History

    An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics

    The US government has spent as much time covering up conspiracies as it has helping the American people. In Hidden History, you will see the amount of effort that our government has dedicated over the past fifty years to lying and covering up the truth to the world.Starting with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don Jeffries chronicles a wide variety of issues that have plagued our ... Read more

    $16.99 USD