In war's dark shadow: The Russians before the Great War
Dial Press, January 1983. Hardcover. More
Dial Press, January 1983. Hardcover. More
South End Press, July 1999. Paper Back. "The great wars we have fought for the sake of liberty have been accompanied, without exception, by the most draconian assaults on individual rights. This is the theme of Michael Linfield's "Freedom Under Fire," and he documents it with examples from every war..... More
Fair Winds Press, December 2010. Oversize Softcover. Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of..... More
Knopf, March 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In this sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Been in the Storm So Long, " Leon F. Litwack constructs a searing, unforgettable account of life in the Jim Crow South. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary documents and first-person narratives from both blacks and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, August 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. Books XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 BC to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293..... More
Penguin, 1980. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavily worn mass market paperback. Creases & edgewear. Superficial vertical creasing along spine, Nevertheless spine remains sound. Hole-punched lower left corner of back cover. Moderate staining & marginal darkening of internal pages. Top textblock edge dust stained/darkened. [711 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. [7' x 9' & 1/4} Octavo in dustjacket with darkening at edges, discolored spine & heavy foxing. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Cotton's Map of New York end pages front and rear. Foxing/dust..... More
Award Books, January 1966. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. First/first. Paperback original. Scarce first novel. Well worn withtorn thumbnail sized bruise midway along fore-edge. Edgwear and darkening. Leaning spine. 160 pages. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2000. Trade Paperback. "In Lies Across America," James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning "Lies My Teacher Told Me," of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. "Lies Across America" is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts..... More
Gallery Books, November 2019. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist Florida Book Awards Silver Medalist Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today! Best Nonfiction Books to Read in 2019--Woman's Day The Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out This Year--BookBub "A..... More
Crown Publishers. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor chipping and some small closed tears on the jacket. Very lightly rubbed corners on the boards. More
Rutledge Hill Pr, July 2005. Book Club. Hardcover. As equally matched in skill as they were opposite in personality, the brash Union Gen. Joseph Hooker boasted of a sure defeat of the reserved Gen. Robert E. Lee. "I've got Robert E. Lee right where I want him, and even God..... More
University of California Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Jacket worn; book clean and tight. More
Halo Books, October 1991. Trade Paperback. This story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought guidance from this extraordinary group of intellectuals..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), October 2013. Hardcover. Wendy Lower's stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women's participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1915. Hardcover. Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1921. Hardcover. Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1913. Hardcover. Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late..... More
Random House, May 2023. Hardcover. A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification "Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson's..... More
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, March 2005. Cloth. Among the most accomplished historians of his generation, John Lukacs has written more than twenty books and hundreds of essays and reviews. His scholarship encompasses the history of the modern age, focusing especially on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military struggles of the twentieth..... More
Yale University Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback. The distinguished historian John Lukacs has been described as "one of the most powerful as well as one of the most learned minds [of the] century" by Conor Cruise O'Brien and as "one of the most original and profound of contemporary thinkers" by..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1962. Reprint. Paper Back. Revised Anchor mass market paperback edition with darkened, slightly slanted spine. Creased upper right corner of rear cover. [348 pages]. More
HarperSanFrancisco, February 1992. Trade Paperback. A beautiful gift edition of the most memorable and perhaps most inspiring speech given by one of our century's greatest civil rights leaders and orators. More
Harper & Brothers, January 1958. Hardcover. Early printing of Dr. King's first book, without jacket; Solid binding; Sturdy blue cloth boards heavily soiled and foxed w/ gilt at spine significantly faded, mild signs of moisture damage; Foxing present at paste-downs/end pages as well as outer edge text-block; Text free of..... More
Warner Books, January 2002. Paper Back. A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text..... More
John Murray, 1850. Reprint. Leather. Octavo. Two volume set,rebound, possibly using original leather because boards are heavily worn, stained, with considerabe flaking. Ribbed spine. Lettering worn down to the point of illegibility. Saddle brown end pages are not original and are in much better condition, and still have gold stickers..... More
Longman, May 1999. Paper Back. Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king', Louis XIV. For forty years from 1672, France was continuously at war and had one of the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. The campaigns secured little territory, but almost bankrupted..... More
The Easton Press, January 1965. Leather. More
Duell Sloan & Pearce / Little Brown & Company, January 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in heavily damp stained & foxing. Clipped flap. Green cloth covered boards with brown lettering on spine. Tanning of end papers. Darkened/dust stained top textblock edge. Heavy foxing on fore-edge. [376 pages]. More
St. Martin's Press, January 1974. Oversized Hardcover. Verso of jacket dampstained. More
J.S. Sanders & Co., April 1992. Reprint. Paper Back. This biography of the Confederacy's greatest cavalry leaders is considered by many to be the best. Southern Classics Series. Octavo with mild edgewear. Clean & sound without markings. [404 pages]. More
Penguin Classics, August 1997. Trade Paperback. In theatres now from Miramax, Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown is based on Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, April 1979. Trade Paperback. One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England won instantaneous..... More
Broadway, April 2011. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH - The "brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful--and certainly the strangest--deception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The..... More
Norton, January 1976. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, May 1982. Hardcover. More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" "[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually..... More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" "[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually..... More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" "[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually..... More
Oxford University Press, July 1995. Trade Paperback. On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross..... More
Yale University Press, September 1983. Paper Back. "MacMullen...has published several books in recent years which establish him, rightfully, as a leading social historian of the Roman Empire. The current volume exhibits many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the presentation of novel, revisionist points of view...; discrete set pieces of..... More
Gramercy Books, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Here is a fabulous and fun reference guide to the Latin and Greek origins of such words and expressions as 'windbag' and 'seize the day,' as well as a lively tour through the literature and life of ancient times. With fun black-and-white illustrations..... More
Little, Brown and Company, July 2014. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations..... More
Broadway, March 2013. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war..... More
Crown, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history..... More
Third World Press, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Here is the seminal and critical work that helped solidify Haki Madhubuti as an informed, passionate, and caring commentator on Black life, culture, relationships, and the development and stability of the Black community. In Black Men, an integral text for anyone with vested..... More
Presidio Press, Inc., May 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. A former editor for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mahoney describes how Communist fighting men lived and fought during the Korean War, noting that American combat soldiers were quickly disabused of their notion that their opponents were ignorant peasants who would be..... More
Doubleday, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider's access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and..... More
McFarland, May 2014. Trade Paperback. One of the most detailed books on the Lost Boys of Sudan since South Sudan became the world's newest nation in 2011, this is a memoir of Majok Marier, an Agar Dinka who was 7 when war came to his village in southern Sudan. During..... More
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Berkley Publishing Group, May 2014. Trade Paperback. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."--CNN - "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."--USA Today - "Oh, it's a good one!"--Fox News A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by..... More
Grove Press, 1965. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printing. Octavo in heavily edgeworn, chipped & torn dustjacket. Especially worn at top & bottom of spine. Darkened at jacket folds. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with light dust staining. Fading lettering along spine. Mild darkening to textblock top &..... More
Createspace, January 2014. Trade Paperback. No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality." Taken..... More
Bantam, 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bantam, September 1989. Trade Paperback. "The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new."--Newsweek In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler's..... More
Bantam, April 1984. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him."--People When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace..... More
Little Brown and Company, November 1983. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket a little chipped at edges; wrapped for further preservation. More
Little Brown and Company, April 1992. Hardcover. A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of..... More
Time Warner Books Uk, December 2004. Trade Paperback. This volume contains the speeches of Nelson Mandela. More
Back Bay Books, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his..... More
Steck-Vaughn, September 2000. Library Binding. Minor shelf wear. Very lightly bumped corners. More
Cambridge University Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of First In His Class, the definitive biography of Bill Clinton, and When Pride Still Mattered, the bestselling biography of Vince Lombardi, and They Marched Into Sunlight, the classic saga of the Vietnam era--a stunning new multigenerational biography of..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1998. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, regarded by his peers as the nation's leading expert on Bill Clinton, sat in a darkened television studio in New York on the night of August 17 and watched the president deliver his curious apologia confessing that he had..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2019. Hardcover. Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and The Washington Post. In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling..... More
The Historic New Orleans Collection, April 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition limited to 2,000 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. One lightly bumped corner. More
Crown, May 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelfwear on the jacket. Price Clipped. More
Fairplay, 1950. Hardcover. 2nd edition, 1950; Signed by George Marion at front free end-page; Solid binding w/ mild wear at spine, front hinge slightly loose; Grey cloth boards show mild age wear, navy lettering at front and spine is clear, mildly faded at spine; Rear board has approx. five inch..... More
Shama Books, 2012. Reprint. Soft Cover. Octavo. Clean, sound, without interior markings. [371 pages]. More
Zed Books, September 1998. Paper Back. The Taliban are yet another manifestation of the growth of radical Islam worldwide. This book explores what they stand for and the factors leading to their rapid rise to military and political dominance over Afghanistan. It considers the many influences within the country, the..... More
United States Govt Printing Office, June 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Amer Heritage Pub Co, June 1985. Trade Paperback. The assassination of the archduke of Austria-Hungary in 1914 triggered more than a monstrous war; it set off a revolution so violent that it reshaped the thoughts and affairs of mankind, perhaps for all time. Marshall's book is a clear one-volume history..... More
Free Press, October 1992. Hardcover. This biography of General William Tecumseh Sherman aims to reveal the motives underlying his often controversial actions. As well as Sherman's role in the Civil War, the book covers other aspects of his life - West Point, the Gold Rush, the construction of the transcontinental..... More
Free Press, November 1984. Book Club. Hardcover. Remainder mark. More
Cambridge University Press, November 1988. Paper Back. Michael Massey's thorough and provocative account is an ideal resource book for students following courses in classical studies and classical civilization. It draws on a wide range of contemporary quotations and is well illustrated with examples of original painting and sculpture. The book..... More
Random House Trade, October 1981. Trade Paperback. "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its..... More
Random House Trade, October 1996. Trade Paperback. A "masterful" (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great "Riveting . . . unfolds like a...... More
Hachette Books, March 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one..... More
Hachette Books, March 2023. Hardcover. The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted..... More
Da Capo Press, June 2005. Trade Paperback. Best-selling author Dary Matera sets the Dillinger record straight, seventy years after the outlaw's death. John Dillinger is an adrenaline-fueled narrative that reignites America's fascination with the suave but deadly desperado who was the FBI's first Public Enemy. Dubbed The Jackrabbit because of..... More
PELICAN / Jonathan Cape, January 1965. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. UK edition. Shelfwear, darkening to textblock edges & margins. Non-authorial inscription iniside first page. More
Anchor, January 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Darkened spine and margins. Moderate shelf wear. Lightly creased spine. [374 pages]. More
Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 2009. Hardcover. A trace of the unsolved mystery seems to follow all ship sinkings through history. This interest is especially keen in the case of the collision between Stockholm and Andrea Doria, two passenger liners that collided at the edge of the fogbank in 1956, even..... More
Meridian Books, Inc. / World Publishing Company, March 1966. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Soiling & dark stains to cover. Spine darkened mildly. Small sticker remnants front cover. Previous owner's name stamped to textbock edge and twice on verso. Internal text without markings. Gutter last page before rear cover verso is split..... More
Vintage, March 2000. Paper Back. An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." --The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph..... More
Harper Perennial, October 2009. Trade Paperback. "Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling." -- Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinegar The New York Times bestselling biography of the visionary young woman who built a champagne empire, became a legend, and showed the world how..... More
Riverhead Trade, February 2006. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a...... More
Harper Perennial, November 2017. Trade Paperback. From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister--soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. "He was speaking to the nation, the world, and..... More
Doubleday Canada, June 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Road to Valour" "is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest" "comeback in Tour de France history and, between his Tour victories, secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II. Gino Bartali is best known as..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2008. Trade Paperback. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1987. Trade Paperback. The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1987. Trade Paperback. The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1978. Trade Paperback. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the. More
Simon & Schuster, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Here at last is the first full-scale biography of Harry S. Truman, his life and times, by David McCullough, distinguished historian and prize-winning author. Huge, ambitious, ten years in the writing, and perfectly realized, "Truman" is an American masterpiece about that most American..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2016. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize--the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly--Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903. More
University of Tennessee Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket. Carmine colored cloth. Black and gold lettering on spine. First U.S. edition. Clean, unmarked interiors. No underlining. No notes. Signed by both authors, McDonough and Connelly on front free end page. James Lee McDonough also inscribed his signature..... More