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 Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a SwastikaBest Price: $6.17 This book is an autobiography of a young man of the Hitler Youth organization and explains the... |  Grover Cleveland: (The American Presidents Series)Best Price: $5.49 I think there is another book out there on Grover Cleveland called an honest president. Here... |  Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and IntimacyBest Price: $5.75 This is such a timely book for me because I was watching one of the plethora of decorating shows... |  Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold RushBest Price: $5.45 The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming... |  On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood (P.S.)Best Price: $3.00 This book makes it clear under what pressures kids and teens grew up in the thirties and forties... |
 All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First FamiliesBest Price: $4.78 Doug Wead's "All the Presidents' Children" is one of my favorite history reads. ... |  The Wilderness World of John MuirBest Price: $7.60 I really enjoyed this book as it was focused on plants and animals. My favorite chapters were... |  Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military HistoryBest Price: $12.47 Author takes a fascinating story and dries it out into a less-than-stimulating biography. ... |  Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern EspionageBest Price: $1.99 Tipoff at that start that this was not going to be anything but an exhaustive first draft of... |  Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged RomeBest Price: $12.70 Pro: Extensive research Account of meetings with people and visits to places in contemporary... |
 Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family AlbumBest Price: $5.99 There's a growing literature of memoirs written by women who grew up on ranches, and this is a... |  Andrew JacksonBest Price: $4.90 I have read several of this author's works, and have never been disappointed. It is easy to see... |  Outwitting the GestapoBest Price: $8.49 This "diary" was written 40 years after the events, so given that memories fade or are... |  John Marshall: Definer of a NationBest Price: $12.53 This is a full-length, 500 page biography of the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,... |  Captain James CookBest Price: $11.31 I knew a few things about the three voyages of Captain Cook so I decided to read his biography.... |
 American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the PuritansBest Price: $1.28 Anne Hutchinson is one of those figures of American history I'd catch fascinating glimpses of -... |  Travels of Marco Polo (Signet Classics)Best Price: $3.59 Marco Polo purportedly spent 17 years travelling to the courts of Kublai Khan and, as an... |  William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219 (2nd Edition)Best Price: $19.73 This is a fantastic book about one of the Mediaeval period's most powerful and brilliant men.... |  Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private LettersBest Price: $4.99 Fun to read a pissant writing about a man with such integrity. Taking some letters, scrutinize... |  Memoirs (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $10.18 There's the example of Julius Caesar, of course. And in America, there was Ulysses Grant, whose... |
 The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern SurgeryBest Price: $10.00 An interesting and historical view of one very early practicitioner who realized the importance... |  The Narrative of Cabeza de VacaBest Price: $8.01 You can take it from the head of the cow: America is a lot different than the Europhile... |  Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)Best Price: $17.30 Of course I'm biased, since I'm a great fan of the Bard, but I found Bill Bryson's book on... |  Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of ShanghaiBest Price: $14.06 The account of a Jewish familys' descent in Vienna through the Nazi hell to the foreign shores... |  Jefferson Davis, AmericanBest Price: $11.26 Like many of the reviewers, I think this is very good. I came to this biography because I... |
 Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber BaronsBest Price: $4.22 The great contribution of this book is that it clears many of the historical misunderstandings... |  King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American HeroBest Price: $4.70 When boxing mattered, boxers were more than pugilists trying to break each other's wills; they... |  Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $10.78 If you are looking for "the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," this is the volume to... |  Joan of Arc: Her StoryBest Price: $3.78 This biography is a great choice for both new students of Saint Joan of Arc as well those... |  All Rivers Run to the Sea: MemoirsBest Price: $4.20 Elie Wiesel may be best known as the author of "Night", his harrowing and sparse... |
 Elizabeth IBest Price: $10.71 elizabeth was the most fascinating ,complex woman who every rule in the world.the author capture... |  George H. W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 41st President, 1989-1993 (The American Presidents)Best Price: $11.00 This book, authored by Timothy Naftali, ends with the following comment (Page 176): "George... |  The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $12.80 If there were a ten star rating, I would give it to this book! If only all of our Presidents... |  The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American FamilyBest Price: $11.74 I did not want this book to end! It is a fascinating, fair, well-written book about all of the... |  Crucible of Terror: A Story of Survival Through the Nazi StormBest Price: $12.59 This is a touching story of endurance and faith. It is written with much dignity and can only be... |
 Freud: A Life for Our TimeBest Price: $13.60 This book describes Freud`s life with deep insight, and you can review the European history at... |  Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's StoryBest Price: $3.90 This is a well written, interesting read. If you are looking for the typical "mafia"... |  The Jew StoreBest Price: $3.94 A wonderful story, thoroughly enjoyed, and similar to my family history. The book was not,... |  CoolidgeBest Price: $13.57 If you want to learn about Calvin Coolidge the man, the father, the husband, the politician and... |  The Spirit of St. LouisBest Price: $5.99 I think the book is wonderful. I wanted to attain a better sense of Charles A Lindbergh and... |
 The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American SagaBest Price: $49.95 Dr. Goodwin writes wonderfully about American politics, the Irish Catholic immigration and... |  Out of My Life and Thought (The Albert Schweitzer Library)Best Price: $10.55 Albert Schweitzer had a high intellect and sought to improve the lives of many people through... |  Aim?e & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943Best Price: $6.99 This book is the very first book to ever make me cry, and I'm one of those people who've read... |  Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the GulagBest Price: $13.94 The most important thing that I gained by reading Janusz Bardach's book is that the will to... |  Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953 (The American Presidents Series:)Best Price: $14.96 The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of... |
 Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend (Missouri Biography Series)Best Price: $12.63 This is by far the best biography on Laura Ingalls Wilder available. This is a scholarly,... |  The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust MemoirBest Price: $10.17 The only reason I put this book down was to reflect. This story is so important - I will do as... |  Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn ChinaBest Price: $10.45 Being impacted by Hitler's regime about the same age as Ursula Bacon, I can easily empathize... |  James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of CounterintelligenceBest Price: $26.96 As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the... |  Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the EnigmaBest Price: $20.00 I am a highly biased reviewer due to the fact that I drew the maps for this book. I deeply thank... |
 Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's PrincessBest Price: $12.99 James Chambers has selected, from the British monarchy's treasury of sensational history, the... |  A History of My Times (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.99 Xenophon's History of My Times picks up roughly where Thucydides left off. After finishing the... |  Infinite Variety: The Life & Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Definitive EditionBest Price: $11.75 "I loved 'Infinite Variety' for the way the authors brought the Marchesa Casati vividly to... |  A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.)Best Price: $2.92 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro takes a novel approach in its... |  A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working WomanBest Price: $8.00 China always seems to have a veil of mystery around it. This book give a rare glimpse of life at... |
 Paul Revere and the World He Lived InBest Price: $8.97 If you would like to go back in time and really experience what it was like to know Paul Revere,... |  Jim Bridger: Mountain ManBest Price: $4.50 it was a rather hard read and need more details, but a OK read on Jim Bridger. Would like to... | |||
Historical Books
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