The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory 1864-1865
By: Allan Nevins
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
BRO-DART COVER. LIKE NEW DJ/ V/G to LIKE NEW BOOK. 1971 Scribner hardcover, Allan Nevins (The Emerg…
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1. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
2. Washington's Crossing
By: David Hackett Fischer
4.15
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A power… read more
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"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
3. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
4. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
5. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
6. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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7. Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
By: Roy A. Adkins
3.63
Format: None pages,
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8. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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9. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
10. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
By: Harrison E. Salisbury
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II… read more
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11. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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12. A Bridge Too Far
By: Cornelius Ryan , Yes
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Bridge Too Faris Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled th… read more
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13. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
By: William Manchester
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a … read more
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14. An American Tragedy
By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more
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15. Theodore Rex
By: Edmund Morris
4.18
Format: 772 pages, Paperback
Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biograph… read more
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"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
"Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his chara…"-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
16. The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era: The End of a Battleship Era?
By: Martin Middlebrook , Patrick Mahoney
4.15
Format: None pages,
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17. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
By: None
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rall… read more
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18. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
19. American Colonies: The Settling of North America
By: Alan Taylor
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
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20. The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)
By: Robert Ludlum
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason Bourne Reenter the s… read more
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21. 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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22. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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23. The Moor's Last Sigh
By: Salman Rushdie
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the… read more
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24. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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25. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
26. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
27. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
By: James Holland
4.45
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more
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28. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
29. Squeeze Me (Skink #8)
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.03
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era … read more
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30. The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory 1864-1865
By: Allan Nevins
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
BRO-DART COVER. LIKE NEW DJ/ V/G to LIKE NEW BOOK. 1971 Scribner hardcover, Allan Nevins (The Emerg… read more
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