New York: Harper Perennial, 2007. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. Remainder mark.
175 pp. In this innovative and engaging work of history, distinguished author Lisa Jardine shows how the first killing by handgun of a head of state had a profound effect on the course of history. The shooting.....
New York: Vintage Books, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor edge wear.
xv, 394 pp. "As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. Corners lightly dog-eared, ink name on half-title page, pages toned.
411 pp. The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the.....
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, Inc., 1996. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fifth printing. A fine copy.
viii, 549 pp. 16 pages of photographs, 7 maps, and 17 tables. "An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men.....
New York: Picador / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
545 pp. Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 has commonly been seen as its "first defeat". In Retreat from Moscow, David Stahel argues that, in fact, it was its first strategic success in.....
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London: Pan Books, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor edge wear.
xxv, 561 pp. Lenin’s politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us Lenin.....
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London: Pan Books, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Front cover creased.
xviii, 715 pp. Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. 12th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Twelfth printing. Light general wear.
xiii, 496 pp. 70 black-and-white illustrations. Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not.....
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London: Pan Books, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor general wear.
xxii, 600 pp. Service is of the opinion, controversial among Trotskyists and anti-Stalinist Leninists, that politically the difference between Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin was only marginal and that excessive antidemocratic attitudes and use of terror as a......
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Movie tie-in. A fine copy.
xxii, 736 pp. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
549 pp. From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intrigues to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favor with the king, John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that was at.....
Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1793. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition (Evans 26339), not the more common 1803 reissue. Collated and complete ([A^4]-B^4, C^2). Pencil code (G958) on front corner), toned and lightly foxed, bottom two sewings loose from first gathering, discoloration and tiny hole on p. 9-1 causing minor.....
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
x, 577 pp. This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg.....
New York: Plume, 2002. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing. Edge wear, covers rubbed, lightly stained.
xviii, 206 pp. In the early months of World War I, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. Despite orders to.....
New York: Random House, 2015. 7th Printing. Hard Cover.
Seventh printing. Minor edge wear.
xiv, 343 pp. Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a “forest man” for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence, character, and.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 25th Anniversary Edition. Trade Paperback.
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Near fine.
428 pp. Here is the first full-scale discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. More than a chronicle of the war years, the book uses the record of America's experience.....
Canada: Anasi, 2016. 7th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Seventh printing. A fine copy.
389 pp. In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course.....
London: Abacus, 2015. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
2015 reissue. A fine copy.
xxix, 494 pp. New preface and introduction. Introduction by Bernard Cornwell. In this landmark study of Agincourt, prize-winning author Juliet Barker draws upon a huge range of sources, published and unpublished, English and French, to give a compelling account.....
New York: Vintage International, 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Movie tie-in edition. Top edge lightly bumped.
218 pp. "Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape.....
New York: HarperPerennial, 2013. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Remainder mark.
x, 434, 18 pp. Arguably the most important American lawyer of the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court when he became embroiled in.....
New York: Grove Press, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xix, 508 pp. Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced.....
New York: Picador, 2009. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Eighth printing. Remainder mark.
xiv, 416 pp. In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some small tears, front jacket flap price-clipped.
viii, 210 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. In the 1870s, the Ojo Caliente Apaches, led by the brilliant and charismatic warrior and chief, Victorio, took their long last stand against American manifest.....
New York: Penguin Books, 2008. 9th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Ninth printing. A fine copy.
xvi, 189 pp. In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xvii, 350 pp. New preface. Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. In this essential reconsideration of the creation and legacy of our nation’s founding document, Sean.....