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Sea of Glory Best Price: $118.02 It was a review of this book in the National Geographic Adventure magazine which first caught my...	Jem Sultan Jem, son of Mehmet II, sacker of Constantinople in 1453, and Cicek is the central historical...	Scott Of The Antarctic	Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal (P.S.) Best Price: $7.92 Since I retired four years ago I have had the time to read a LOT of books, at least a lot for...	Ambassadors



Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism Best Price: $15.93 Sassoon's "Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism" is pretty much summed up in its...	Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History Best Price: $17.98 Drawing upon on a wealth of knowledge, discovery, research, and technical advances, this...	The Suicide Factory Best Price: $0.01	The Way We Were Remembering Diana I understand that Paul was approached by the publishing company to write a book for the ten year...	Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 So much has been written about World War II that one is astonished to find new material and a...



Dictionary of Jewish Biography Best Price: $8.00 This is an informative and useful volume. It contains the biographies of one - thousand well-...	Chronology of the Expanding World 1492-1762 Best Price: $55.33	Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume I Best Price: $7.19 okay, this book is totally awesome because it has a lot of useful information, but occasionally...	A History of the Human Community: Prehistory to 1500	American Journey, The, Concise Edition, Volume 1 Best Price: $38.00 For history books, this book is short and concise enough to grab my attention, and keep it for...

American Journey, The, Concise Edition, Volume 2 Best Price: $35.99 I will certainly return to Amazon for future textbook needs. This was the quickest response...	Europe in the Twentieth Century (4th Edition) Best Price: $89.00 For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual...	The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler's "Final Solution" Laqueur's new introduction, written for this paperback edition of his classic work, revives...	To the Promised Land (Penguin Politics) Best Price: $7.50 This book deserves 5 stars for bias and no stars for truth. It not only distorts the facts, it...	The Use and Abuse of History I am perhaps the wrong person to be saying this - anyone who browses through my reviews will...

Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned Best Price: $6.48 Grigorii Rasputin has entered the symbology of Western civilization as shorthand example of the...	Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat Best Price: $3.37 One of the rallying cries in the localvore movement is that shipping food out of the area its...	The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology And The Myth Of Israel (British Commonwealth, United States, United Nations, 1993) Best Price: $7.99 Thompson's book is rather poorly organised, yet it is possible to detect certain recurrent...	Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power Best Price: $68.70 About a decade ago Niall Ferguson wrote an economic history of early 20th century Hamburg. This...	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Best Price: $23.49 It should be the easiest subject to have universal agreement on; Genocide is reprehensible and...

Power of Paper Best Price: $22.86	Icons of the 20th Century: Women	The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth	The Bronski House: A Return to The Borderlands A book about the re birth of Poland and the borderlands.	The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher Best Price: $1,790.00 Following the worldwide success of her memoirs "The Downing Street Years" and...

The Western Heritage: Since 1300 (7th Edition) Best Price: $94.90 Up until now, I have been completely infatuated in anything European and anything to do with...	The World's History, Volume I: To 1500 (2nd Edition) Best Price: $45.00	Native American Voices: A Reader (2nd Edition) Best Price: $84.99 The book got here real fast and it looks BRAND NEW. I will definitely order from here again.	The Western Heritage, Volume I: To 1715 (Brief 3rd Edition) Best Price: $0.99 The book looked brand new. It arrived in about a week. I would recommend to anyone!	Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History Best Price: $29.98

The West: Culture and Ideas, Prentice Hall Portfolio Edition, Volume Two: 1400 to the Present Best Price: $4.99 This book interprets Western civilization broadly?continuing to discuss the Middle East beyond...	A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilation Best Price: $3.85 The deeds committed during the Holocaust were horrid and lacked any form of human decency....	Chronicle of the 20th Century Best Price: $38.84 Didn't receive the first order. A second order was sent. Didn't receive that one, plus...	A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilation (3rd Edition) Best Price: $22.47 A History of the Holocaust by Bostwinick is a well-written, extremely informative book. While...	Love and War in the Apennines

Castles Bring the Middle Ages back to life with this sumptuous, action-packed tie-in book to Dan...	The Heritage of World Civilizations: Vol a Through the Middle Ages	Encyclopedia of the Holocaust	Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Japan Best Price: $22.00 In short, Harries and Harries do an excellent job of writing works of popular history, but at...	A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood Best Price: $29.75 Raymond P. Scheindlin has managed to write, in 263 pages, an accurate, secular and very readable...

At Home With the Royal Family Best Price: $4.95	Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 : An Oral History Best Price: $7.66 I am glad to say I own a copy; an autographed one at that! This book is a collection of oral...	The Holy Grail Best Price: $39.23 The final volume of a comprehensive Camelot tetralogy chronicles the events surrounding the...	Document Set to accompany the Heritage of World Civilizations, Vol. 2 Best Price: $10.00 The first volume in this world history survey, this book provides a global scope, with...	The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine Best Price: $21.95 Thi is a very good book, hard to put down. Although at times structurally rather muddled, the...

Spain's Road to Empire Best Price: $884.30 In this seminal work the Spanish empire is re-examined from its roots in the 15th century to its...	Irving Judgment (Law) This reprints the verdict in a famous libel trial in London in 2000. David Irving had sued...	The History of Mary Prince (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.73 The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in...	In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust Best Price: $6.84 I remember reading about this real-life story a number of years before this book was actually...	Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai Best Price: $14.97 Lots of history here but at the expense of a good story. I wish it had been a biography of...

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq	Sold as a Slave (Penguin Great Journeys) In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic...	Ascent of Money A Financial History of the World (Paperback, 2009) Best Price: $8.15 Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In...	Waugh in Abyssinia	AN Introduction to Contemporary History Best Price: $81.44

Will the Soviet Union Survive to 1984? (Pelican)	History of the World, The Pelican Best Price: $45.00 This is one of the finest one- volume surveys of world- history. Its is divided into eight...	Pelican Book of the Renaissance	History of the World, The Pelican I would compare the excellence in quality of the book to the 11 volume "Story of...	Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685 Best Price: $13.20 The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in...

Pleasures of the Past	This Sceptred Isle (BBC) Written to accompany the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, this readable history looks back on...	Yellow Cross Best Price: $11.48 In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious...	Naked Heart (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4) (v. 4) The 19th century was intensely preoccupied with the self, to the point of neurosis. During the...	The Design of the Aeroplane Summarizes both aeronautical theory and historical performance data for many of the tasks...

Jane's Tank & Combat Vehicle Recognition Guide (Jane's Recognition Guides) Best Price: $23.98 Let's face it, a full-sized Jane's book is too large, too heavy and too expensive for...	Twopence to Cross the Mersey Best Price: $10.22 This book was recommended to me by my sister-in-law. Since I like biographies and my husband is...	Empires of the Monsoon Best Price: $39.76 Empires of the Monsoon is clearly a very fascinating book, telling a story that is both...	The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval history of Britain Volume One 660-1649	Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire Best Price: $91.66 Following his great trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the Soviet...

Voyages of Delusion Best Price: $3.32 Voyages of Delusion in the Age of Reason: Williams's book charts the 18th-century's...	Sea Kingdoms Best Price: $192.31 I found this to be a completely enjoyable survey of history from the Celtic perspective. I...	From the Land of Green Ghosts	The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine Best Price: $21.95 Thi is a very good book, hard to put down. Although at times structurally rather muddled, the...	Spain's Road to Empire Best Price: $884.30 In this seminal work the Spanish empire is re-examined from its roots in the 15th century to its...

Irving Judgment (Law) This reprints the verdict in a famous libel trial in London in 2000. David Irving had sued...	The History of Mary Prince (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.73 The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in...	In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust Best Price: $6.84 I remember reading about this real-life story a number of years before this book was actually...	Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai Best Price: $14.97 Lots of history here but at the expense of a good story. I wish it had been a biography of...	Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Sold as a Slave (Penguin Great Journeys) In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic...	Ascent of Money A Financial History of the World (Paperback, 2009) Best Price: $8.15 Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In...	Waugh in Abyssinia	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.00 Burckhardt's 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' is fundamental to our...	The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History Best Price: $21.15 There are essentially four separate threads in this book: 1)An explanation of the pathology of...

The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism Best Price: $0.24 Johnson's Age of Anxiety is two books, one fascinating and suspenseful, the other a trite...	Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 Best Price: $4.98 The annals of maritime exploration are filled with great names. Magellan! Columbus! Cook!...	The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $3.78 After searching some time for a short history of the Cold War, this little gem virtually fell...	Madness: A Brief History Best Price: $63.85 Roy Porter died recently at the age of 55, but produced over eighty books on a wide range of...	Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition Best Price: $7.94 Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition was the primary text used in my 3000-level Latin American...

Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series) Best Price: $11.35 As you can tell from the title this book is the definitive book on the making of the atomic bomb...

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