History Books


Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam Best Price: $10.57 Good read. Great knowledge. I wish the authore had stayed in the army becasue he knows what he...	Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion Best Price: $15.61 The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest,...	The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future Best Price: $8.99 A very engrossing book with lots of behind the scenes information and details. Almost like the...	Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II Best Price: $3.60 If you are looking for a thrilling and captivating mystery that just happens to also be a true...	Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World Best Price: $14.63 Chapman's assembled an insightful look at how a corporation gets involved in other countries in...



The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Best Price: $2.65 This book is a wonderful book that tells two different stories of a boy and his mother trying to...	The Hiding Place (Deluxe Christian Classics) Best Price: $5.61 This book is beautiful inside and out. The outside is burgundy leather? bound with gold stamped...	Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict Best Price: $11.00 Sandra shows in this book a comand in Lebanese affairs, so this is a great read for people...	I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust Best Price: $2.70 This book is so powerful. I have read many stories of Holocaust survivors, but few if any have...	Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Best Price: $4.38 READ DEVOTO'S EDIT OF THE JOURNALS INSTEAD! There is probably a link for it somewhere on your...



Military Flight Aptitude Tests, 6/e (Arco Military Test Tutor) Best Price: $14.86 I purchased this book to study for the AFAST exam. All the sections in this book mirror the...	I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Best Price: $12.98 It is common knowledge that this book is really a pile of lies. It isn't much of an...	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Best Price: $2.84 If you are planning on taking a trip to Georgia and have time to stop in Savannah I suggest you...	China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America Best Price: $6.29 In preparation for a business trip to China, the first book I read was China Shakes the World by...	Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit Best Price: $3.92 Fascinating reading. I liked the understated style of writing and found it a compeling read. The...

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) Best Price: $18.47 The value of this book is enormous and is reflected well in the large number of high quality...	The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State Best Price: $11.47 Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world...	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Best Price: $4.47 I enjoyed the basic story but he goes on and on at points about things that got rather boring. ...	Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror Best Price: $7.37 Michael Scheuer lets it all out and tells us that basically "The Emperor Has No...	Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels Best Price: $12.27 What I like about this book is the fact that it is not only instructional for comic book artists...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Best Price: $3.38 I found this in audio at an audio rental store. The front intrigued me so I read the back and...	River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) Best Price: $6.26 For anyone who's been tempted to respond to one of those ads to "teach English...	The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War Best Price: $16.16 I will not repeat the praises of the preceding reviewers with which I fully agree. This I must...	The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition] Best Price: $6.59 I should state that I teach economics for a living and have a BA and MA in Econ, which...	Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World Best Price: $19.77 Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter...

The Book of Five Rings Best Price: $3.24 The book written by the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645 is considered a classic...	Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger Best Price: $53.99 Read the other five star reviews. They say what I would say about this book. As far as general...	Meditations (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.30 I reread Marcus Aurelius' Meditations every five years or so, and each time I do I'm struck by...	Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Best Price: $7.08 This is the only book that I have manged to read the entire of it in one day! It is a comic...	Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) Best Price: $7.39 When I included this and Maus 1 & Persepolis I was informed that they are not graphic novels...

The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition Best Price: $21.00 This book was used in one of the classes I took as an undergraduate. It seems to be a thorough...	The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea Best Price: $16.30 There is two sides to a coin with this book. On one side is the the story of author who turned...	Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History Best Price: $8.44 Like many of the previous reviewers I wanted to love this book. I ended up only liking it. I'm...	God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Best Price: $14.07 I ordered this book in its audio version in an effort to fill my travel time to and from work. ...	The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Best Price: $8.63 I have read other accounts of Japan's barbaric behaviour in China but this one is as...

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) Best Price: $8.99 Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver...	Generation Kill Best Price: $4.25 This is a gripping account of the invasion of Iraq as seen by en embedded reporter. Wright goes...	Kaplan ASVAB 2008 Edition (Kaplan Asvab) Best Price: $13.03 This book is OK, but the Barron's ASVAB prep book is more thorough and comprehensive. The...	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Best Price: $2.99 Woman Warrior is one the most, if not the most, haunting lyrical-memoirs I've read. Author,...	Capital Ideas Evolving Best Price: $16.59 This was not an easy read, but it was worth it. I received my MBA in 1976. Much of this book...

Survival In Auschwitz Best Price: $5.10 Excellant book, I felt like I was living Mr Levi's life in the camp with him. What a wonderful...	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Best Price: $10.95 Robert Caro's biography reads like an extraordinary work of investigative journalism - damning,...	Fingerprints of the Gods Best Price: $8.99 First I wonder if Mr. Michael Bulger is on the government payroll what with his skepticism of...	Vietnam Inc. Best Price: $19.77 Having served in South Vietnam in 1968-1969 I will attest that the war was wrong. It is hell,...	US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 Best Price: $7.00 This is THE definitive guide to survival. There is nothing here to filter out, no political...

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality Best Price: $15.95 One doesn't have to be religious to appreciate this book. Its simply an excellent reminder of...	A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History Best Price: $8.58 I've read all Michael Farquhar's books and I'm constantly amazed by the way he makes history so...	The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Best Price: $13.57 I think that this book was very infomative. I didn't need to do anymore research to find the...	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away Best Price: $3.00 I am a big fan of Bill Bryson, and this book did not disappoint. It's full of his trademark...	Peace: The Biography of a Symbol Best Price: $10.95 As the boomer generation moves onward through the milestones of life, 1960s nostalgia holds...

Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends Best Price: $4.84 Very good book. If you have seen the series "Band Of Brothers" you have to ...	Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population Best Price: $17.49 I was a public health activist in the 60s and supported population control as appropriate public...	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Best Price: $4.95 Are there many Roosevelt lovers out there who are under 70? I'm one of them, but I can't for the...	Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam (Revealing Antiquity) Best Price: $18.36 Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the...	Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism Best Price: $13.00 IF you wish to get a good working knowledge of his party this is one to read.

Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq Best Price: $16.32 Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek...	China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power Best Price: $15.98 So nice! The stories were not about the Bad and the Good or tons of dry history. Just stories...

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History Books