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The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
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Include books by the same authorWhat If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
James D. Bradley, Cecilia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, John Lukacs, William Hardy McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O'Connell, Caleb Carr, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller, Geoffrey C. Ward, Tom Wicker, James Chace, Theodore F. C · 427 pages
The Coming Fury
Bruce Catton, E.B. Long · 565 pages
Volume 1: "The coming fury" describes the people and politics, social and economic forces which came together to drive the nation apart, from a political convention in Charleston in 1860 through the first, stunning impact of the Battle of Bull Run. Volume 2: "Terrible swift sword" traces the personalities and actions leading to the Emancipation Proclamation and the removal of General McClellan fr
The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw · 412 pages
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages
Virtual History
Niall Ferguson · 548 pages
Speculates what may have happened if nine major events did not occur, asking such questions as, "What if there had been no American Revoultion?" and "What if John F. Kennedy had lived?"
Wilderness Empire
Allan W. Eckert · 653 pages
Maps on lining papers. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance.
Triumph and Tragedy
Winston S. Churchill · 768 pages
"Winston Churchill's monumental The Second World War, is a six volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, this book is also the story of one nation's heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Having learned a lesson at Munich they would never forget, the British refused to make peace with Hitler
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson · 816 pages
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. In An Army at Dawn -- winner of the Pulitzer Prize -- Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening Am
The Missing of the Somme
Geoff Dyer · 157 pages
'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. We will remember them' Relying more on personal impressions than systematic analysis, Geoff Dyer
Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus, the Ultimate Jesus Freaks
D.C. Talk · 367 pages
Christian recording group, dc Talk, captures the hearts of young people with this gripping compilation of stories about martyrs past and present. They tell of those who gave it all for God and are the ultimate Jesus Freaks. Young and old alike will ask themselves what they are trading their lives for!
The Third Reich at War
Richard J. Evans · 926 pages
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a "people's community to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocideAlready hailed as "a masterpiece" (William Grimes in The New York Times) and "the most comprehensive history...of the Third Reich" (Ian
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard · 324 pages
This book is a riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly. The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history -- how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil
From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
William J. Bennett · 573 pages
"An account of America in both successes and failures and triumphs and tragedies. Instead of criticizing our nation and those who have sacrificed for her, these stories affirm that the American experiment in democracy remains the hope our nation desperately needs. Volume I covers 1492-1914"--Rainbow Resource Center.
The Sea Hunters II
Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo · 446 pages
From the author of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jason Stearns · 416 pages
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
Marc Morris · 471 pages
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Buddy Levy · 429 pages
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. "I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold." --Hernan CortesIt was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civili
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Evan Thomas · 471 pages
On February 15th, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were influential politicians dismayed by the "closing" of
The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War
William Manchester · 1,022 pages
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson · 608 pages