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 First Years: Wellington |  PyramidsBest Price: $102.21 From the development of monumental architecture around 3,000 BC to the fabulous edifices that... |  Despatches From KargilBest Price: $6.54 This was the best book I've read on the Kargil war, which brought India and Pakistan close... |  The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Sixth Revised and Updated EditionBest Price: $3.99 Anyone who wants a truly honest vision of the Arab-Israeli conflict should consider this... |  Nuremberg (tie-in): TNT tie-in editionBest Price: $1.94 For me this volume functioned as a sequel to William L. Shirer's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE... |
 Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the WorldThis title tells the true story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story... |  This House Has Fallen'This is an example of a country that has fallen down; it has collapsed. This house has... |  Pearl Harbor Is Burning!: A Story of World War II (Once Upon America)Best Price: $2.59 The story "Pearl Harbor is Burning!" is about a friendship between two boys... |  The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (Novel)Best Price: $4.79 Orion Howe is a young boy who wants to put his drumming knowledge to good use. Disobeying his... |  The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms RaceBest Price: $2.84 Robert Oppenheimer led the country's World War II Manhattan Project to develop the atomic... |
 Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910Best Price: $12.49 The story of the great fires of 1910 that raged along the northern tier of the country from... |  The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First ComputerBest Price: $125.00 Charles Babbage's achievements were lost to history -- or at least lost to most of us -- for... |  The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American RevolutionBest Price: $26.98 Having lived in New York City all my life I am surprised it took so long for someone to write a... |  To Be A Slave (Puffin Modern Classics)Best Price: $2.09 Like "Island Girl" said, "...It moves you, it angers you, it amazes you..." ... |  The Falcon (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.52 In 1789 when he was a nine year-old boy, his mother already dead, John Tanner's family... |
 A Very Short History of the World"This," Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey writes in his preface, "as an... |  Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and AfghanistanBest Price: $132.34 |  From Jo'Burg to JoziBest Price: $17.26 Journalists Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts approached about 80 journalists and writers based in... |  Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of LoveBest Price: $3.48 I think what many of the previous reviewers found offensive was that the author turned the... |  The Truth of the MatterThe first reviewer in this list has a very skewed view of Australian History and the... |
 Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871Best Price: $11.92 ~Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871~ is an exploration of the... |  Stalin & His HangmenBest Price: $13.65 D. Rayfield's book gives us sharp portraits of Stalin himself as well as his hangmen... |  A Crack in the Edge of the World |  Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914. Robert GildeaBest Price: $10.38 Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its... |  Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War. Ian KershawBest Price: $21.00 Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique... |
 Alexander the GreatBest Price: $36.96 Alexander the Great, was born on or around July 20, 356 B.C.E., and is my favorite personality... |  Decision in NormandyBest Price: $14.06 It may not be the definitive account of Normandy that his two other books are but its definitely... |  The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the VikingsBest Price: $11.90 For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on... |  Descent Into Chaos: The World's Most Unstable Region and the Threat to Global Security. Ahmed RashidBest Price: $7.58 The war on terror is being lost - but not just in Iraq. As this devastating book shows, the real... |  TAo Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Life (Arkana S.)Best Price: $21.84 The title-page of my earlier Arkana (1985) edition of this book (which does not include the... |
 The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe (Arkana)Best Price: $514.56 Henryk Skolimowski postulates that in order to usher in a new society propagating peace,... |  England in the 20th Century, 1914-1979: Volume 9 (Hist of England, Penguin)In this account explains the continuity and significance of many important issues and events of... |  The Reformation to Industrial Revolution: 1530-1780; Volume 2 (Economic Hist of Britain) (v. 2) |  Che's Guerrilla War (Pelican)Best Price: $82.95 |  War on the Mind: Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology (Pelican) |
 Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938; Fifth Revised Edition (Pelican)Best Price: $4.25 This complete revision looks at American foreign policy from 1938 to, roughly, the end of the... |  Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (Penguin History) |  The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the Assassination, the Conspiracy, andBest Price: $89.00 Robert J. Groden's "The Killing Of A President" is a very good resource book for... |  Good Boatman: A Portrait of GandhiBest Price: $22.00 | The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race Best Price: $2.84 Robert Oppenheimer led the country's World War II Manhattan Project to develop the atomic... |
| Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 Best Price: $12.49 The story of the great fires of 1910 that raged along the northern tier of the country from... | The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer Best Price: $125.00 Charles Babbage's achievements were lost to history -- or at least lost to most of us -- for... | The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution Best Price: $26.98 Having lived in New York City all my life I am surprised it took so long for someone to write a... | To Be A Slave (Puffin Modern Classics) Best Price: $2.09 Like "Island Girl" said, "...It moves you, it angers you, it amazes you..." ... | The Falcon (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 In 1789 when he was a nine year-old boy, his mother already dead, John Tanner's family... |
| A Very Short History of the World "This," Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey writes in his preface, "as an... | Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan Best Price: $132.34 | From Jo'Burg to Jozi Best Price: $17.26 Journalists Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts approached about 80 journalists and writers based in... | Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love Best Price: $3.48 I think what many of the previous reviewers found offensive was that the author turned the... |  Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-1940 (Twentieth Century Classics)Best Price: $13.43 Russian Modernism began with the triumph of the symbolist style and survived until the Stalinist... |
 A Russian Journal (Modern Classics (Penguin))Best Price: $12.52 I read A Russian Journal upon returning home from a two-month stint of teaching in Moscow and... |  Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)Best Price: $5.77 I admire Gandhi so much for his emphasis on non-violence, on passive resistance. I read this... |  Eye-deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-1918 (Penguin Classic Military History) |  Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (Penguin Classic Biography) |  The Ascent of Man (Penguin Classic History)Nowadays many different books have been written to explain the unfolding of humans and... |
 Dictionary of the Third Reich (Penguin Classic Military)This accessible and authoritative dictionary provides a full background to the rise of Nazism... |  Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.52 This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. Alexis... |  The World Crisis 1911-1918 (Penguin Classics) |  New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (Penguin History of Britain)Best Price: $10.00 Susan Brigden, Reader in Modern History, Fellow, and Tutor at Oxford, has written New Worlds,... |  The Fall of Jerusalem (Penguin Epics)Best Price: $2.02 This is a concise (102 pages) excerpt of the writings of Josephus about the Jewish War in AD 70... |
 A Secret History of the IRABest Price: $14.61 Great to be the first to review this important, but very biased "History". I forgive... |  The Shipwrecked Men (Penguin Great Journeys)Best Price: $2.99 Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents... |  The IslamistEd Husain has written a highly informative, personal account of his experiences as a young man... |  In the Heart of the Amazon Forest (Penguin Great Journeys)Best Price: $0.65 Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents... |  The Classical World |
 Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus. Oliver BulloughBest Price: $13.04 The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have... |  Nature (Penguin Great Ideas)Best Price: $5.19 |  The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918. Sean McMeekinBest Price: $10.29 This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. "Sean McMeekin has written a... |  Common Sense (Classics)Best Price: $2.09 Presents the text with annotations of "the single most influential political pamphlet ever... |  Restoration Verse, The Penguin Book of (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $0.99 Arranged by theme, this volume selects poetry written between 1660 and 1700. The changes in this... |
 A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of WomenBest Price: $14.73 In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a... |  Selected Journalism: 1850-1870 (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.66 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was the greatest of the Victorian English novelists. He authored... |  Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.42 I stumbled on this book while I was a long-haired undergrad in college many years ago, and I... |  The Conquest of Gaul (Classics)The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs.... |  The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30)Best Price: $7.50 Livy prefaces book XXI as follows (in de Sélincourt's translation): "It was... |
 Cicero: Selected Political Speeches (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.56 In its last days, the Roman Republic was a wild and wooly place. Popular thugs like Lucius... |  DiscoursesBest Price: $5.89 The 16th century Florentine statesman Niccolò Machiavelli is mostly known for his... |  The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.98 Compared to well-written ancient histories by Tacitus, Suetonius or Ammianus Marcellinus,... |  Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.35 Philosophy has intrigued me since I was eighteen years old (never mind how long ago that was!) ... |  Agricola and the Germania (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.42 A newly revised edition of two seminal works on Imperial Rome Undeniably one of Rome's... |
 Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics (Reference)Best Price: $66.99 This book offers invaluable references for travel, literature art...heck, even songs by Sting! I... |  The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Penguin Dictionary)Best Price: $10.00 I think P. Grimal's dictionary(hardcovered one) is the best among many encyclopedias or... |  The Penguin Encyclopedia of Modern Warfare (Reference Books)Best Price: $137.07 This is a one-volume guide to the dramatic events and developments in warfare over the last 150... |  The Nuremberg Raid |  Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (Hist of Art)Best Price: $110.32 Presents an overall view of the history and changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine... |
 The Pastons: A Family in the War of the RosesBest Price: $5.95 Unmatched by any history book, these letters constitute a rich and intimate glimpse into the... |  Lord Hervey's Memoirs (Lives and Letters) |  Germany and the Germans: The United Germany in the Mid-1990s; New EditionBest Price: $26.87 If you're not planning to do it the hard way, i.e do some heavy reading on German history... |  Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful QueenBest Price: $12.50 Joyce Tyldesley's book, `Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen' is a fascinating study of a... |  Rituals of Retribution (Penguin history)The ideals of the Enlightenment transformed execution from a "barbarous" public... |
 Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China: Revised EditionThis is an excellent account of the numerous ascents and descents that characterized Deng... |  The Immortal Dinner : A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817 |  This Life-The Companion Guide (BBC)For anyone who just caught this series on BBC America and was blown away, this is a must have! I... |  1943: the Victory That Never WasBest Price: $86.26 They say hindsight is always 20/20. Whoever they are, they haven't read much alternate... |  The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999Best Price: $13.36 What has Ferguson NOT told us about the Rothschilds in his seemingly exhaustive two volume set?... |
 Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the PastBest Price: $1.95 "Motherland," Fern Schumer Chapman's extraordinary memoir of her mother's pre... | ||||
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