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 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and LivingstoneBest Price: $8.94 I've always been intrigued by stories about the jungles of Africa, and this was the one story... |  The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In HistoryBest Price: $11.25 Again we have to remind ourselves,it is the most influential persons in history, the influence... |  Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $13.00 In Twilight at Monticello, I was looking for an accessible portrait of Thomas Jefferson the... |  Mao Zedong: A Life (A Penguin Life)Best Price: $7.05 Jonathan Spence is probably the leading Western scholar on Chinese history, and for that reason... |  Hitler: A Study in TyrannyBest Price: $7.98 I enjoyed the book very much as an amateur historian and read it often, so much so that my... |
 Doc Holliday: The Life and LegendBest Price: $10.58 Given that Doc Holliday left virtually no record of his own behind, Roberts has done an amazing... |  A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of ApartheidBest Price: $6.00 Expedient is one word I can use to describe this transaction. I got the book within one week of... |  Sophie Scholl and the White RoseBest Price: $8.77 If you have a restless conscience then you will better understand the members of the White Rose.... |  The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic OdysseyBest Price: $13.99 In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave... |  Hudson Taylor (Men of Faith)Best Price: $3.26 We are missionaries, so this book inspired me very much! If you have small children, take into... |
 Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken AutobiographyBest Price: $11.80 This is a great book. You learn a different side of Castro that is depicted in the media. He is... |  Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of WarBest Price: $20.11 "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" was a very interesting and informative... |  Wu Zhao: China's Only Female Emperor (Library of World Biography)Best Price: $18.60 Behind this fabulous tale of the rise of the daughter of a lumber merchant to the first and only... |  Holy Land: A Suburban MemoirBest Price: $8.02 D. J. Waldie's Holy Land: a Suburban Memoir is so beautifully and carefully written that I found... |  Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the LegendBest Price: $10.73 the book was of excellent quality being used as stated on amazon. The shipping time was quick... |
 Adolf Hitler: The Definitive BiographyBest Price: $14.39 Very much an eye opener; so many things I have read separately, this book pulls it all... |  Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War SpyBest Price: $2.76 Disguised as a union soldier, Emma would risk her life for her country. Emma Edmonds was born... |  The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First SuperheroBest Price: $1.00 The subtitle "The making of America's first superhero" really doesn't hold up very... |  Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $6.93 If you are looking for "the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," this is the volume to... |  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)Best Price: $5.51 The autobiography of Franklin was a worthwhile book to read. I suggest ignoring the footnotes... |
 Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved EnglandBest Price: $16.00 I walked away with the feeling that the author intended to write a history of Queen Elizabeth's... |  Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics)Best Price: $1.87 Every time I look at a river, I think of Mark Twain and his adventures on the Mississippi. His... |  Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de GaulleBest Price: $4.35 Paul Johnson is a gifted writer. He writes with wit, elegance and clarity. He has the ability... |  Autobiography of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $3.35 This was a small, interesting book, but I found it a difficult read, due to the language used... |  Andrew CarnegieBest Price: $2.99 Insight into a fascinating and complex person living in a fascinating complex time. A man who... |
 The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.57 A readable translation of the many letters of one of history's most famous letter writers, and... |  The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe BergBest Price: $1.99 I felt like I was reading the sports pages for the first 140 pages. Too many stats, facts and... |  Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.60 So often we find out how important a piece of text written hundreds of years ago can change the... |  The True Adventures of the Rolling StonesBest Price: $10.50 This is a decent rock and roll book about the Rolling Stones that traces their history up until... |  Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern TurkeyBest Price: $11.00 Andrew Mango has obviously done a great deal of research into his fascinating subject. The book... |
 Andy Warhol: Giant SizeBest Price: $72.35 Bought as a gift for a 21st birthday. Will be a memory that he can keep for a long time with a... |  The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver StreetBest Price: $1.75 If you want to learn more about a brief moment in WS's life, and a good deal more about London... |  The Romanovs: the Final ChapterBest Price: $3.15 In this book, the author totally convinces the reader that the Romanovs were indeed murdered and... |  Abraham Lincoln: Man Behind the Myths, TheBest Price: $6.95 In this small but valuable volume, Oates explores the reality beyond the two sources of Lincoln... |  An Ordinary Man: An AutobiographyBest Price: $3.20 This autobiography was written very well. The author was committed to getting the facts out... |
 Patton: A Biography (Great Generals)Best Price: $11.50 This concise but authoritative biography of General George S. Patton, Jr. is the perfect text... |  After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came NextBest Price: $8.58 This book is beautiful. Having briefly visited East Berlin in 1959, I was impressed with its... |  Jane Austen: A LifeBest Price: $8.42 Noticing that one review was very caustic of this book, I would like to say that I thought it... |  Founding Father: Rediscovering George WashingtonBest Price: $2.88 I am an avid history buff, and read many books. This was an illuminating adventure into the soul... |  WALT DISNEY: AN AMERICAN ORIGINALBest Price: $5.94 I am very pleased with the poster overall. It is a bit light and fuzzy but that only adds to... |
 Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis PresleyBest Price: $7.16 THIS IS AN EXCELLANT BOOK ON ELVIS' LATER YEARS (AFTER GERMANY AND MILITARY SERVICE). WOULD... |  Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret ArchivesBest Price: $10.50 For 50 years, few have disputed that Stalin was one of the cruelest men since Vlad the Impaler... |  Samuel Adams: Father of the American RevolutionBest Price: $14.50 I found this book to be a fascinating study of a man who did nothing to promote himself and... |  Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American ControversyBest Price: $6.29 I bought and read this book before the DNA results. This is the most unbiased look at the... |  American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964Best Price: $12.00 This superb biography examines the many sides to General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964); superb... |
 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... |  Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.75 The author of this book (Asser) was a contemporary of King Alfred's and was brought to Wessex... |  Napoleon: The Path to PowerBest Price: $21.75 In "Napoleon: The Path To Power," Philip Dwyer successfully brings to life the first... |  Thomas Jefferson on WineBest Price: $20.00 Good read. This book provided an historical perspective I had not been exposed to before. The... |  WitnessBest Price: $12.10 I've never given much thought to Whittaker Chambers, although I was sympathetic to him in the... |
 Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and PowerBest Price: $10.55 Empress Catherine II, usually referred to as Catherine the Great, was one of the most... |  The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg ArchdukeBest Price: $6.99 This book has two big problems. The first is that the subject of the book isn't worth a book of... |  The Guynd: A Scottish JournalBest Price: $8.42 I really looked forward to reading this book because I have long wanted to travel in Scotland,... |  Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (My Autobiography, To1949, Vol 1 1949)Best Price: $6.17 This was actually my first experience with Doris Lessing, tho I've heard of her for years. Her... |  The Jim Morrison ScrapbookBest Price: $16.00 I am a big fan of the Doors, and Jim Morrison (went to his grave in Pere La Chaise twice) and I... |
 Caesar: A Life in Western CultureBest Price: $16.50 | ||||
Historical Books
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