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Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

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Latest review by texas-swede Sep 29, 2011
"Who would have thought that the private thoughts of a young girl could have so impacted the lives of..." Read full review

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Katharine Graham - Personal History

Katharine Graham - Personal History

In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a ...
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Latest review by blunt Jan 30, 2006
"This book turned out to be nothing as I imagined. I was surprised to find so many parallels' with he..." Read full review

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David Starkey - Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne

David Starkey - Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne

Free Worldwide Delivery : Elizabeth : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061367434 : 0061367435 : 01 Oct 2007 : In this spirited United ...
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Latest review by telynor Apr 4, 2002
"I tend to collect biographies of the Tudor personalities of the sixteenth century. Certainly one of..." Read full review

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Riane Eisler - The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Riane Eisler - The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

This thought-provoking book looks to the origins of culture as a means of assessing the current state of civilization and the direction in which it ...
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Latest review by VickeyK Aug 19, 2001
"Excellent, revelatory, mind-expanding, broadening, life-changing, well-researched, comprehensive...f..." Read full review

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Guy Sajer - Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer - Forgotten Soldier

The deluxe edition of the classic German WWII autobiography of a teenaged German soldier on the front lines through the entire war. Includes some ...
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Latest review by ericjohnso Oct 20, 2007
"I was 16 when I first read Guy Sajer's book. I was a big enthusiast of American Civil War Literature..." Read full review

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Charles D. Barton - The Bulletproof George Washington

Charles D. Barton - The Bulletproof George Washington

One of the turning points in the young George Washington's life took place July 9th, 1755, in a French & Indian War battle. The only officer on ...
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Latest review by Caprig Nov 26, 2002
"WARNING: The following is a very long review. In light of some very difficult and disturbing th..." Read full review

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James M. McPherson - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

James M. McPherson - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the ...
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Latest review by Bruguru Oct 21, 2001
"If the tragic events of September 11th, 2001 and the ensuing war on terrorism have had any positive..." Read full review

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Kevin J. Hayes - The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Kevin J. Hayes - The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

A lively account that provides an invaluable look at Thomas Jefferson's intellectual and literary life focuses on the books and ideas that exerted ...
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Latest review by jankp Apr 30, 2010
"On July 4th, 1826, two pillars of the United States of America, her second and third presidents who..." Read full review

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Andrew Chaikin - A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Andrew Chaikin - A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Free Worldwide Delivery : A Man on the Moon : Paperback : Penguin Books : 9780143112358 : 014311235X : 01 Sep 2007 : This acclaimed portrait of ...
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Latest review by alexdg1 Jun 21, 2010
"When President Barack Obama's administration announced in early 2010 that it was canceling Project C..." Read full review

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Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore wrote a definitive biography of Charles Darwin back in 1991, and here they revisit one of the most controversial ...
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Latest review by jankp Mar 31, 2009
"A lot of people today assume that Charles Darwin, that English scientific icon from the nineteenth c..." Read full review

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Gregory Boyington - Baa Baa Black Sheep

Gregory Boyington - Baa Baa Black Sheep

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Latest review by Don_Krider May 31, 2004
"Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was a lot of things --- a Sioux Indian, a college graduate with an..." Read full review

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Carl Von Clausewitz, Beatrice Heuser, F. N. Maude - On War

Carl Von Clausewitz, Beatrice Heuser, F. N. Maude - On War

On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the ...
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Latest review by George_Chabot Mar 22, 2004
"&#148War is a continuation of politics by other means.&#148 Carl von Clausewitz On War is the one bo..." Read full review

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - Triumph and Tragedy

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - Triumph and Tragedy

From the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 the Second World War had only fourteen months to run. This final volume of the account covers ...
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Latest review by George_Chabot Sep 17, 2006
"Triumph and Tragedy: Winston Churchill's the 2nd World War Triumph and Tragedy (1954) After making i..." Read full review
Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says ...
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Latest review by sweaver May 8, 2010
"Author Jon Meacham, also editor of Newsweek magazine, follows up his World War II era book Franklin..." Read full review

$9 - $22

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Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Emperor of All Maladies : Hardback : Scribner Book Company : 9781439107959 : 1439107955 : 16 Nov 2010 : "The Emperor of ...
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Latest review by driftless Sep 12, 2012
"Cancer affects everyone, either directly or indirectly, and given the seemingly indiscriminate manne..." Read full review

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