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The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than... -
The Informers - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
SUMMARY: A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today. When Gabriel Santoros biography is scath... -
The House of Rothschild_ . Mone - Niall Ferguson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynastyIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusi... -
The History of The Decline and - Edward Gibbon
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Geneva, Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">In this third of volume, readers will discover the rules of... -
The History of History - Ida Hattemer-Higgins
From Publishers WeeklyA promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins's overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September ... -
The Hindus - Wendy Doniger
From one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its historyAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers ... -
The Heretic Queen - Michelle Moran
In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÇÖs past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed th... -
The Happiness Myth_ An Expose - Jennifer Hecht
From Publishers WeeklyHistory teaches us, contrary to popular belief, that money can buy happiness, drugs are mostly good, low-fat diets may not prevent cancer or heart disease. Fo... -
The Guns of August - Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Review “Fascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.” –_The New York Times _ “MORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . ... -
The Gun - C. J. Chivers
FromThis superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian...