History Books


Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation I am not a scholar in early American Republic, so there are simply aspects of this book I can...	Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Best Price: $20.53 Abominable. That is what Jimmy Carter's book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is. His book is...	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War Best Price: $44.35 Bowden has written a masterful account of the Black Hawk Down tragedy which became a famous Tony...	Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia This fellow is an arm chair quack. He grew up in Pakistan, but that's all about it. Now he makes...	American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Best Price: $14.87 It was a semi-interesting read...but coming in at 250 page for 200 years of history??? I think...



The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic Best Price: $3.00 Bought the book to learn more about immigration in the 1850s. My great great grandfather...	Islam: A Short History Best Price: $11.50	Statistical Abstract of the United States 2002: The National Data Book (Statistical Abstract of the United States Enlarged Print Edition (Library Edition)) Best Price: $54.98	Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (G K Hall Large Print Nonfiction Series) On September 9, 1857, the sidewheel steamer "Central America", which was carrying...	Come to the Cow Pens: The Story of the Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781 Best Price: $8.39 This book is a wonderful narrative about the battle of Cowpens and the personalities involved....



Great Plains (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) Wallace Stegner has written beautifully of the northern Great Plains (specifically Saskatchewan...	How the SunGod Reached America: A Guide to Megalithic Sites Best Price: $24.95 The concept of this book that ancient petroglyphs and monoliths like Stonehenge are actually...	Truman and Pendergast (Thorndike Press Large Print American History Series) This is a good read for those interested in one of our Great Presidents. It also shows the...	The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnam (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) Though written in 1984, this book takes apart governmental decision-making and reveals that...	Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Best Price: $31.95 This is a good read as an adjunct to the other book, but 'Last' is better. It is often...

The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History Best Price: $155.71 I love reading these type books and hearing these stories, but "The Terrible Hours"...	Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Best Price: $14.24 The Table of Contents reads like a "Who's Who" of liberal thinking. Then again, the...	Thunderstruck (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Best Price: $10.25 Not quite as good as Devil in the White City, but a satisfying read anyway. Learned more than I...	Flags of Our Fathers I saw the movie first and later on read the book. The book has a lot of information that re-caps...	Expedition Wydah

Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural This entire book is a thorough analysis of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech given towards the...	Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Best Price: $29.95 Focusing on the period between 1956 and 1958, Matthew Brzezinski recreates the Cold War...	An Album of Memories (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Best Price: $5.45 I,m sixty-one yrs old. My heroes have always been the WWII veterans. I'm stocked with books,...	The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq Best Price: $8.99 The book arrived in the estimated time and in the condition advertised by this seller.	Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers Best Price: $17.14 My favorite book of the past ten years. The view of the mountain people of North Carolina and...

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic Talk about an incredibly survival journey, this is it. These guys were very resourceful and...	Hostile Waters The Russian nuclear powered, missile carrying (SSBN) submarine K-219 was about 15 years old when...	Statistical Abstract of the United States 2001: The National Data Book Enlarged Print Library Edition (Statistical Abstract of the United States Enlarged Print Edition (Library Edition)) Best Price: $70.00	Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Best Price: $31.95 First, Jonathan Eig is a tremendous writer! He does have a tendency to detour along tangential...	Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Best Price: $16.80 This book should be used to teach an American reader the Japanese perspective before and during...

Perfect Murder: A Century of Unsolved Homicides Best Price: $21.27	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Best Price: $100.62 This is the second copy I have purchased of this book - the first is in tatters from being read...	Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Best Price: $5.50 Jon Meacham has woven a beautiful account of these two great characters from a most human and...	The Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics) Best Price: $4.39 I'm astonished by the one star comments! These people should at least read a story about the...	The Boys of Pointe du Hoc LP: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion Best Price: $2.89 I enjoyed this book very much. Before reading the book, I was only generally familiar with the...

Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Random House Large Print (Hardcover)) Best Price: $6.94 Even though the book is called "Cinderella Man", Schaap does a great job of telling...	The Sea Hunters this book is different from cusslers novels, it is many historical stories of the search for...	The President's House (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Best Price: $18.29 This book by the daughter of President Harry Truman offers a wonderfully insightful and...	Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission Best Price: $14.49 Very readable historical novel from which a Hollywood Film Production was rendered. Gripping,...	To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian I, like many other readers/history buffs, greatly respect Ambrose for his ability to take a...

Flight: My Life in Mission Control [Updated Review] I'm not sure what to make of this book, certainly I must have a different...	Hollywood Royalty: Hepburn, Davis, Stewart, and Friends at the Dinner Party of the Century Best Price: $12.11	Effective Techniques for Unarmed Combat Best Price: $7.25 This book is a very good one for understanding the most effective ways to move the body in a...	Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) If you've ever been to Princeton University, NJ and the Cotswold you'll realize how funny this...	Shooter: The Autobiography Of The Top-ranked Marine Sniper Best Price: $28.50 We're all raised hearing things like, "Don't hit your brother," and "Be a good...

The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed a Game, a People, a Nation (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Best Price: $16.65 "The Real Americans" is a well written and researched book. I have always wondered...	The Life of Charlemagne (EasyRead Edition) Best Price: $6.99 A remarkable biographical account by Einhard. It narrates in detail Charlemagne?s legendary rise...	The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World Totally do not waste your time on this book. It is insulting to the reader it is so badly...	Myths and Legends of the Second World War Best Price: $32.50 Myths And Legends Of The Second World War by James Hayward is an impressive collection of lore...	Living on Tick (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) Best Price: $32.50

The Will to Live On: This is Our Heritage Best Price: $0.01 Anyone interested in Judaism, what it means to be a Jew, Jewish history, Jewish meaning will...	Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Best Price: $30.95 In 1912, one of the classic American football games was played--between Carlisle and mighty...	The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) Best Price: $24.76 This book was a disappointment. It sounded so interesting. A true war story of the Warsaw Zoo....	A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Best Price: $29.95 In this book Dan Kurzman tells the story of WWII from the perspective of the Nazi hierarchy with...	From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) I had heard about Lava the dog and the many pitfalls it took to overcome to get him home and so...

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage This book was both suspenseful and interesting account of spying under the waves. While I find...

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