The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy (Civil War America)
By: Lorien Foote
4.17
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison…
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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more
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- military history
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2. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.12
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more
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"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
3. The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.32
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death … read more
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4. Napoleon: A Concise Biography
By: David A. Bell
3.98
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and c… read more
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5. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
By: Charles B. Dew
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more
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6. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
7. Turning Points in Modern History
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Audio CD
This series contains 24 lectures, each one focusing on a different "turning point" since 1400. read more
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8. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story Of A Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm and an Untold Rescue
By: Bob Drury , Tom Clavin
4.19
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Flags of Our Fathers , Halsey’s Typhoon chronicles the ep… read more
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9. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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10. Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1676
By: James Lincoln Collier , Christopher Collier
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincol… read more
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11. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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12. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
By: John Keegan
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more
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13. A Century of Immigration: 1820-1924
By: James Lincoln Collier , Christopher Collier
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincol… read more
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14. Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
By: Rana Mitter
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of T… read more
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15. Icy Clutches (Gideon Oliver, #6)
By: Aaron Elkins
3.91
Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On a trip to Alaska, Gideon Oliver becomes involved in a tantalizing mystery. Everyone finds it for… read more
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16. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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17. We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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18. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
By: Gregg Jones
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find … read more
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19. The Dispatcher
By: John Scalzi , Zachary Quinto
4.57
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible t… read more
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20. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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21. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By: Jon Krakauer
4.08
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a s… read more
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22. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
23. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
By: Russell D. Moore
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more
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24. The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)
By: John Scalzi
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has … read more
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25. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
26. The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
By: Mark Galeotti
3.85
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new realit… read more
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27. American Monsters
By: Adam Jortner
3.99
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 55 minutes Cackling witches in Puritan communities calling forth Satan. Sea serpents… read more
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28. Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
By: David K. Randall
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His p… read more
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29. Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
By: Roger Crowley
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the… read more
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30. The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy (Civil War America)
By: Lorien Foote
4.17
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison… read more
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