1774: The Long Year of Revolution
By: Mary Beth Norton
3.74
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 Pres…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
By: Amy S. Greenberg
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring … read more
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3. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
4. A Lantern in Her Hand
By: Bess Streeter Aldrich
4.18
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 45 minutes Part of: Bison Book (4 titles) Perfect for fans of … read more
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"You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've …"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working…"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
"Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mus…"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
"Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college te…"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
5. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
By: Stacy Schiff
3.93
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to Fran… read more
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6. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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8. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
By: Antony Beevor
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more
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9. In Calabria
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Last Unicorncomes a new, exquisitely-told unicorn fable for the mo… read more
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10. The Witches: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more
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11. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
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12. The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
By: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Capta… read more
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13. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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14. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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15. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
By: Mike Duncan
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more
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16. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
17. The End and the Death: Volume II (The Siege of Terra)
By: Dan Abnett
4.15
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 2 Volume II picks up right where the first left off, with cataclysmi… read more
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18. Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs Trilogy)
By: Dan Jones
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The epic sequel to Essex Dogs, continuing the New York Times bestselling historian's trilogy of nov… read more
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19. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
By: Rick Atkinson
4.43
Format: 776 pages, Hardcover
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more
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20. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
By: John Oller
4.15
Format: 563 pages, Kindle Edition
A popular, comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," covering his famous engageme… read more
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21. The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
By: Brad Meltzer
3.81
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Was… read more
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22. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
By: Andrew Roberts
4.25
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more
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23. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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24. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.08
Format: 416 pages, ebook
New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more
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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
25. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
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26. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
By: Mary Beth Norton
3.74
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 Pres… read more
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27. The Boston Massacre: A Family History
By: Serena R. Zabin
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing pe… read more
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28. The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
4.20
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet--the delegates to the Constitutional C… read more
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29. India Moving: A History of Migration
By: Chinmay Tumbe
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala,… read more
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30. The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
By: Colin G. Calloway
4.06
Format: 620 pages, Hardcover
George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--fr… read more
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31. A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic
By: Francis D. Cogliano
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the relationship between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, counteri… read more
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