Oxford University Press, USA, May 1992. Trade Paperback. James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest..... More

Henry Holt & Company, April 2001. Hardcover. A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America's worst naval disaster -- and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived. On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men..... More

Random House Value Publishing, August 1987. First Thus. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Previous owner inscription present at front free-end page, pages/text otherwise free of markings; Dust jacket shows extrememly mild edge-wear, now housed in protective mylar for further preservation. More

Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback reprint. Especially heavy wear and chipping along edges of spine with superficial creasing of surface of that spine. Creased lower left corner of rear panel. 2nd edition with new introduction by Albright. [432 pages]. More

HarperOne, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. This riveting history explores the annihilation of more than seven million women of spirit and intelligence under the guise of the 'witch hunts' of Europe and traces the current backlash against women to its European origins. Illus. First printing w/ full number line; Tight..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Hardcover. Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next--a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform--borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought over. In The Edge of the Plain, James Crawford skillfully blends history..... More

Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2019. Reprint. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS..... More

Penguin Books, March 2013. Trade Paperback. With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long..... More

Princeton University Press, August 1990. Hardcover. "Two things are certain about the future of politics and international relations," writes Gene Sharp. "Conflict is inevitable, and effective defense will be required against internal usurpers and international aggressors." The crucial issue is how to deter and defend against such attacks. Sharp has..... More

Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1989. Soft Cover. Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For..... More

Published by Grahame Hardy, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. Quarto in heavily worn jacket with large chips, some scuff marks & tears. There is triangular cut out from DJ front flap. Brown cloth covered boards with edgewear with white lettering along spine. Likewise white stamped illustration front board lower right corner..... More

The Passenger, September 2021. Paper Back. Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Out of the Shadows by Tash Aw?Against the Stars by Tommaso Melilli?Afraid of Being Free by Samar Yazbek?plus: the Champs-Elysées between luxury and riots, the..... More