Nonfiction
Ike: An American Hero
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This ambitious work chronicles the life of Dwight D Eisenhower, from his roots in the rural poverty of Abilene, Kansas, to his quiet ...Read Review
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
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In 1519, when the ambitious Hernán Cortés landed on Mexican soil in the name of the Spanish monarch, he had three goals: ...Read Review
Full-Court Quest
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In the late 1800s, the United States government established boarding schools for Native American children with the intent of assimilating the children into ...Read Review
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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In 1860 in England, a middle-class family’s three-year-old son disappears. After a brief search, he is found dead in an outdoor privy with ...Read Review
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart
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“Jeb” Stuart was one of the most brilliant and colorful personalities in U.S. military history. Jeffrey Wert is one of America’s ...Read Review
Until Our Last Breath
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At his father’s funeral, Michael Bart is approached by a mourner who informs him that his parents belonged to a World War ...Read Review
Masters of Battle, Monty, Patton and Rommel at War
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In World War II, Great Britain, the United States and Germany each produced one land force commander who stood out from the rest. ...Read Review
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
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Like her masterwork, Etiquette, Post was truly a woman who changed with the times. Born into a wealthy Baltimore family, she was raised ...Read Review
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
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Christian Europe’s fate in the struggle against an aggressive and powerful Ottoman Empire was settled in the Mediterranean between the fall of ...Read Review
Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
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This is the latest paperback edition of a book originally published in 1992, and which neatly combines both guidebook and military history. Professor Holmes ...Read Review