Williamsburg, Virginia / Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture / The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. A fine copy.
xiv, 290 pp. For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and.....
New York: Macmillan Publishing USA, 1997. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Laminate starting, page ridges soiled.
xxi, 950 pp. A portrait of Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson traces his life from his humble beginnings through his military career, to his untimely death in 1863.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
viii, 396 pp. Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha Hodes, one of our finest historians, captures the full range.....
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Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Hard Cover.
A fine copy in a fine jacket.
428 pp. Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid. Mosby possessed a genius for guerrilla and psychological warfare, taking control of the dark.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
xlii, 450 pp. This comprehensive military biography of George Washington entertainingly examines Washington's capacity as a military leader. Acclaimed historian Edward G. Lengel, an associate editor of the University of Virginia's Papers of George Washington.....
Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Minor pencil underlining.
x, 336 pp. George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the.....
New York: Vintage Books, 2016. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor general wear.
594 pp. In Roosevelt and Stalin, Susan Butler tells the story of how the leader of the capitalist world and the leader of the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II.....
New York: Vintage Books, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor edge wear.
xix, 569 pp. A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark, page base lightly soiled.
xxv, 854 pp. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika.....
New York: Touchstone, 2002. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing. A few light scuffs on rear cover.
751 pp. The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor general wear.
xix, 524 pp. Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in World War I and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest.....
London: Aurum History, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
354 pp. The men and women of the ‘Y’ (for Wireless’) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military’s encrypted messages for decoding back at the.....
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.....
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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.....
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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......
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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: Vintage Books, 2016. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
xvi, 358 pp. George Washington was famously unknowable, but Robert Middlekauff penetrates the mystique to reveal the fears, values, and passions that drove him. Rich in psychological details regarding Washington's temperament, idiosyncrasies, and experiences, this audiobook shows.....
New York: Penguin Books, 2017. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
500 pp. Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of future president.....
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Light scratches on rear cover, pages toned.
xxi, 424 pp. A dramatic portrait of George Washington's presidential years, Patriarch is a gripping story of politics and statecraft. Smith describes Washington's struggle to preside over the bitter feud between.....
New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xv, 325 pp. A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's history. In the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens.....
New York: Picador, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark, top edge of covers rubbed.
xi, 353 pp. In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead.....
Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Trade Paperback.
A fine copy.
ix, 171 pp. The inventor, the ladies’ man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin’s.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Remainder mark.
xxii, 548 pp. From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II—a bitter, sometimes violent clash of personalities and ideas that divided.....