Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
By: Roy A. Adkins
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged an…
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3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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By: Rick Atkinson
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Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
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4.07
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By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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4.83
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7. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
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4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
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3.38
Format: None pages,
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4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
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3.92
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3.40
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4.21
Format: 391 pages, ebook
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16. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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4.90
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17. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
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"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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31. Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
By: Roy A. Adkins
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged an… read more
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