History Books


Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book) Best Price: $10.50 this masterpiece is a most objective observation of early classic diplomacy to now-days ultra...	Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Best Price: $10.79 Tony Judt's book is a lively and contentious narrative of Postwar Europe from the...	Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda Best Price: $3.84 The book is about one of the major battles in the fight against Al Qaida in Afghanistan done by...	Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Best Price: $25.71 This is a unique piece of literature that gives you a sense of pride for those unsung heroes of...	The 48 Laws of Power No mattter if you find the subject of the acquisition, use and maintenance of power to be...



'Tis: A Memoir Best Price: $0.59 Frank McCourt has a wonderful style of writing that ties the reader to the pages. He writes in a...	Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam Best Price: $7.88 “We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.” —Reda...	Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History Best Price: $8.44 This is a marvelous effort. If the author focused only on the pennant races of a century ago...	Profiles in Courage (slipcased edition): Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americans Best Price: $5.00 John F. Kennedy, in a lucid manner, details the political life of eight U.S. Senators. Kennedy...	The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World Best Price: $25.20 I just read few pages of this wonderful book. I've always been fascinated about the origins and...



The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Best Price: $8.00 This book is good, let's be fair about that. Well-researched and thorough, it is packed on every...	Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 Best Price: $12.10 This well written and well organized book is a careful synthesis of the enormous secondary...	Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women Best Price: $4.31 I was lent this book, but had to buy so I could read it again and again.Geraldine Brooks reaally...	Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know Best Price: $15.57 There is a huge amount of information in this book. It is very clearly and logically laid out...	Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises Best Price: $21.92 I think this is an inspiring book for any designer or architect who is interested in learning...

The Battle for God Best Price: $1.89 This is the Go-To text on Fundamentalism in religions. Very insightful, very well written, very...	The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 Best Price: $8.44 As someone who is interested in all forms of military special forces, I love all books I can...	There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children Best Price: $8.90 Author Melissa Fay Greene, who is the adoptive mother of two Ethiopian children, relates the...	AP United States History (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the AP Exam: 7th Edition (Test Preps) Best Price: $11.90 The REA AP US History review was the book that I used to review for the AP test today. It's very...	The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Best Price: $10.13 Great book. Heinberg boils down many complex issues into clear concise explanations. His...

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History Best Price: $11.98 I am a History Professor at a small, Christian, liberal arts college on the outskirts of...	The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Best Price: $7.55 Nanking is the capital of my home province. I have been told what terrible things Japan Army did...	War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier Best Price: $4.84 I found that Butler's sentiment in this book is not exactly "anti-war" in the sense...	A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) Best Price: $16.00 The topic of this thrilling book, 20 years in the making, is nothing less than the history of...	Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission Best Price: $4.10 Review Summary: Ghost Soldiers once again proves that truth is stranger and more dramatic than...

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations Best Price: $8.36 Much has been said about the book's contents in previous reviews. What I would like to add is...	A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century Best Price: $21.93 This splendid book gives us the flavour of Western historians from the Ancient Greeks to the...	Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East Best Price: $4.39 For three decades Robin Wright has worked in the Middle East as the best kind of reporter -- a...	The Discovery of France Best Price: $12.21 Less a history, more a biography, informed by Robb's extraordinary on-the-ground research in...	The Discovery of France Less a history, more a biography, informed by Robb's extraordinary on-the-ground research in...

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $7.35 This is a great account of perhaps the most important set of decisions of the 20th century by a...	Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Best Price: $5.98 I first read this book last summer and have been thinking about the similarities between the two...	America: A Concise History, 3rd Edition Best Price: $50.17 Over the past year I have had the opportunity to compare this book with Roark's The American...	The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it Best Price: $7.88 It was pretty tedious to read, but there were many points well taken and it was overall a very...	A Rumor of War Best Price: $8.46 This is a powerful book about a war most want to forget. Vietnam has entered the collective...

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror Best Price: $7.89 Many of the most intractible flashpoints in the world today arise where the Islamic and...	Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War Best Price: $4.00 I must admit, at the risk of losing my status in the AH world, that I wascompletely unaware of...	Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Best Price: $4.89 The thesis is darkness lurks in the hearts of men. But I'm not sure it is that much. Remember...	The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Vol. 1: To 1877, 13th Edition Best Price: $93.71	Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies Best Price: $12.00 Blacklisted exceeded my expectations. I had been looking forward to reading a thoroughly...

War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier Best Price: $4.84 I found that Butler's sentiment in this book is not exactly "anti-war" in the sense...	The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Best Price: $12.00 Pico Iyer's new book subtitled "The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" takes...	Civil Disobedience and Other Essays Best Price: $13.11 Possibly the best exemplar of what America truly stands for is Henry David Thoreau. The above...	All But My Life Best Price: $5.69 This is one of the first Holocaust survival stories that I read. It is by far one that has...	The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR Best Price: $20.49 To everyone who is whining that this book is not geared for younger children: IT'S NOT SUPPOSED...

The Richest Man in Babylon Best Price: $1.90 There is a song popular today: You Gotta Be by Desiree. Says: "read the books your father...	Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy Best Price: $12.40 This is the latest offering from one of the most insightful analysts of national and global...	The Prince (Special Student Edition) Best Price: $3.54 I have not yet finished reading this wonderful book, but I about doing it...It has been a...	The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-in Edition) : Notes on a Latin American Journey Best Price: $4.73 One of the most exiting, brilliant, humourous, moving and honest accounts of a 22 year old's...	The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave Best Price: $2.15 We know that this book is a hoax. And while some may say "even if it is not true it is a...

The Early Church (The Penguin History of the Church) Best Price: $8.29 Henry Chadwick has produced a masterpiece. I have just finished a course on the Beginnings of...	Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War Best Price: $3.95 This book was almost written by accident, as the author didn't experience the events....	Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Best Price: $8.91 This is one of the best biographies I have ever read - replete with information about Arabia (a...	Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) Best Price: $6.98 Armstrong's book not only offers a good and detailed overview, but also provides us with a sound...

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