The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
By: Dominic Hoffman , Steve Sheinkin
4.35
Format: None pages, Audio CD
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve …
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1. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
By: Gareth Hinds , Pamela S. Turner
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.… read more
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3. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
By: Siegfried Sassoon
3.80
Format: 384 pages,
An irreverent look at British military leaders during WW1, written by the Hawthornden-Prize winning… read more
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4. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
By: Dominic Hoffman , Steve Sheinkin
4.35
Format: None pages, Audio CD
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve … read more
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5. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
By: Frederick Downs
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zonetells the story of the plato… read more
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6. Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
By: Albert Marrin
4.22
Format: 224 pages,
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7. Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
By: Kevin Maurer , None
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before.Lions of Kandaha… read more
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9. Strange Meeting
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was af… read more
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10. It Was the War of the Trenches
By: Jacques Tardi , Kim Thompson
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacqu… read more
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11. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
By: H.R. McMaster
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York T… read more
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12. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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13. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
14. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
15. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
16. The Miracle of Dunkirk (Wordsworth Collection)
By: Walter Lord
3.99
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by t… read more
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17. I'll Be Waiting for You
By: Mariko Turk
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of the buzzworthy tearjerker You've Reached Sam , this emotional will-they-won't-… read more
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18. Looking for Smoke
By: K.A. Cobell
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more
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19. The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
By: Candace Fleming
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicate… read more
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20. Another First Chance
By: Robbie Couch
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult n… read more
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21. The Calculation of You and Me
By: Serena Kaylor
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate’s help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks st… read more
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