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1.
The Bitter Road to Freedom
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
By: William I Hitchcock
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and...
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Globetrotting Brainiac
600 Historical Facts and Fun Trivia From Around the World (Part of Kaplan Brainiac)
By: Randy Howe
This edition: Flashcards, 1202 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
This fun and educational flashcard adventure includes: -600 color-coded flashcards covering every continent and countries all around the world, with questions, answers, and fun facts
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Rome 1960
The Olympics That Changed the World
By: David Maraniss
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2008
Bestselling author David Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a groundbreaking tour de forceThe athletes competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics included some of the most honored in Olympic history: decathlete Rafer...
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Unveiled
How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East
By: Deborah Kanafani
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in...
Other Formats: eBook
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The Great Experiment
The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
By: Strobe Talbott
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the "story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully --...
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Forge of Empires
Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
By: Michael Knox Beran
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: October 16, 2007
In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the...
Other Formats: eBook
7.
The Fated Sky
Astrology in History
By: Benson Bobrick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: November 14, 2006
From ancient times to the present day, astrology has captured the imagination -- is it possible that human fate is influenced by the stars? Astrologers throughout the ages have advised the powerful, from popes to presidents to...
Other Formats: eBook
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The Winds of Change
Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
By: Eugene Linden
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 7, 2006
The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context.Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor,...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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1215
The Year of Magna Carta
By: Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: May 17, 2005
Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this...
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The Measure of All Things
The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
By: Ken Alder
This edition: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publication date: September 23, 2003
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to...
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