Popular History Books
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
Rating: 537 customer reviews
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely…
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D-Day
Rating: 784 customer reviews
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight the youngsters brought up in the Boy Scouts.…
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The Rape of Nanking
Rating: 740 customer reviews
In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient…
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Rating: 409 customer reviews
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the 19th century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the 20th. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the…
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Rating: 466 customer reviews
The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a…
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The Greatest Generation
Rating: 539 customer reviews
In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation. America's citizen heroes…
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Rating: 594 customer reviews
This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me…
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Band of Brothers
Rating: 736 customer reviews
In the summer of 1942, a band of citizen soldiers were brought together by the desire to be better than the other guy. At its peak, Easy Company, 506th Parachute…
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Rating: 2530 customer reviews
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental…
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The Federalist Papers
Rating: 773 customer reviews
The U.S. Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. It was to become law only if it was ratified by nine of the 13 states. New…
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Black Hawk Down
Rating: 1382 customer reviews
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Black Hawk Down…
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Rating: 443 customer reviews
Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West. In 1803, Lewis and his partner William Clark led an…
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
Rating: 497 customer reviews
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines,…
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The Forgotten Man
Rating: 439 customer reviews
It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really…
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Undaunted Courage
Rating: 837 customer reviews
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies,…
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What's so Great About America
Rating: 507 customer reviews
America is under attack as never before - not only from terrorists, but from people who provide a rationale for terrorism. Best selling author Dinesh D'Souza takes on…
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Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War
Rating: 435 customer reviews
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred…
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Rating: 1759 customer reviews
In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less…
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Ghost Soldiers
Rating: 528 customer reviews
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite US Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty…
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Rating: 1293 customer reviews
Two men embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the 20th century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham the brilliant…
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1776
Rating: 1298 customer reviews
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of…
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Columbine
Rating: 664 customer reviews
Over the course of this gripping narrative, Dave Cullen approaches his subjects with unrivaled care and insight. What emerges are shattering portraits of the killers,…
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Rating: 488 customer reviews
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Few people realize that the Comanche Indians were the…
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Rating: 799 customer reviews
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history, the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the…
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Rating: 801 customer reviews
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises…
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A Patriot's History of the United States
Rating: 506 customer reviews
Since the liberal revolution of the '60s and '70s, American history books have been biased toward the negative. They overemphasize America's racism, sexism, and…
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Zeitoun
Rating: 401 customer reviews
In his new nonfiction book Zeitoun, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers tells a Hurricane Katrina story unlike any written before. When HurricaneKatrina…
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Rating: 400 customer reviews
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the…
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The City of Falling Angels
Rating: 519 customer reviews
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on The New York Times best seller list. John Berendt's…
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In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents In the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Rating: 615 customer reviews
Secret Service agents, acting as human surveillance cameras, observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the president's inner circle. Ronald Kessler reveals…
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