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The Guns of August
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why... Read more >
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Engineers of Victory
The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
Written by Paul Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied... Read more >
The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
Written by Paul Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Life of Elizabeth I
Written by Alison Weir
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $13.99
Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new... Read more >
Written by Alison Weir
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $13.99
Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Citizens of London
The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Written by Lynne Olson
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $13.99
The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s... Read more >
The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Written by Lynne Olson
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $13.99
The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases... Read more >
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Written by The Countess of Carnarvon
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
Full-color photographs included throughout.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of... Read more >
The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Written by The Countess of Carnarvon
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
Full-color photographs included throughout.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Embers of War
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Written by Fredrik Logevall
Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.99
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • A GLOBE AND MAIL “BEST READS” SELECTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades... Read more >
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Written by Fredrik Logevall
Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.99
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • A GLOBE AND MAIL “BEST READS” SELECTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Written by Candice Millard
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2009
Price: $11.99
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most... Read more >
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Written by Candice Millard
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2009
Price: $11.99
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Citizens of London
The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Written by Lynne Olson
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $17.00
The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who... Read more >
The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Written by Lynne Olson
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $17.00
The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
