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North American history: U.S. 1492-1800
Colonial, Revolutionary & the Birth of a Nation

Norman L. Baker
Braddock's Road: Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela

John Braginton-Smith & Duncan Oliver
Cape Cod Shore Whaling: America's First Whalemen

T.H. Breen
Puritans & Adventurers

Jack Brubaker
Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Robert Ellis Cahill
New England's Naughty Navy

Ron Chepesiuk
The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

Jeremy D'Entremont
Great Shipwrecks of the Maine Coast

Eric Jay Dolin
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Joseph J. Ellis
The Cause: The American Revolution & Its Discontents, 1773-1783

George Franklin Feldman
Cannibalism, Headhunting & Human Sacrifice in North America

Arthur D. Graeff
Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania Peacemaker

Frances Hill
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

Katherine Howe, editor
The Penguin Book of Witches

Carl Japikse, editor
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Clay S. Jenkinson
Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century

Frank Joseph
The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus

Douglas Edward Leach
Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces & Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

Toby Mac & Michael Tait
Under God

Bill Mauldin
Mud & Guts

Matthew P. Mayo
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

Alice McGill
Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet

Donna Merwick
Death of a Notary

Edmund S. Morgan
The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89

James L. Nelson
Benedict Arnold's Navy

Nick Offerman
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

Kenneth Roberts
The Battle of Cowpens

Stacy Schiff
The Witches: Salem, 1692

Kent Thompson
The Man Who Said No: Reading Jacob Bailey, Loyalist

Cathy Travis
Constitution Translated for Kids

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Good Wives: Image & Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Barry Vann
Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage

Gore Vidal
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

John Hardy Wright
Sorcery in Salem

Richard Zacks
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd


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North American history: U.S. 1801-1900
19th Century, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction & the West

Frederick Allen
A Decent Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes

Steve Babson
Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy

Larry D. Ball
Tom Horn: In Life & Legend

Deanne Blanton & Lauren M. Cook
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

John Boessenecker
When Law was in the Holster

Walter R. Borneman
1812: The War that Forged a Nation

William Riley Brooksher
Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek

Arnold R. Brown
Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter

Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Jack Brubaker
Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Karen Elizabeth Chaney
New England Remembers: Lizzie Borden

Stephen A. Channing
Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina

Owen Chase
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Larry S. Chowning
Soldiers at the Doorstep

Gregory A. Coco
On the Bloodstained Field
On the Bloodstained Field II

Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty

William J. Cooper
The South & the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856

John W. Davis
The Trial of Tom Horn

Jeremy D'Entremont
Great Shipwrecks of the Maine Coast

Chris Dickon
The Enduring Journey of the USS Chesapeake

Eric Jay Dolin
 Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, & Survival at the Edge of the World

Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl
Pirates of New Jersey

Stephen Fox
Wolf of the Deep

David Frew
Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle

Rick Geary
The Borden Tragedy

Jerome A. Greene
Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Mark Grimsley
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864

Aubrey L. Haines
An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole

Samuel W. Hankins
Simple Story of a Soldier: Life & Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry

William C. Harris
North Carolina & the Coming of the Civil War

Brian Hicks
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew

Mitch Horowitz
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation

Paul Andrew Hutton, editor
The Custer Reader

Michael P. Johnson
Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia

Marc W. Kruman
Parties & Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865

Walter LaFeber
The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898

Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, & the Deadliest Hurricane in History

John R. Lindermuth
Digging Dusky Diamonds: A History of the Pennsylvania Coal Region

Steven E. Maffeo
The Perfect Wreck

Matthew P. Mayo
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

William McCarter
My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, edited by Kevin E. O'Brien

David G. McCullough
The Wright Brothers

Scott L. Mingus Sr.
Marauders & Murderers: Civil War Mysteries of York County, Pa.

James L. Nelson
Reign of Iron

David Nevin
1812

Ben Nussbaum & Gretchen Bacon, editors
Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States: Remembering the Civil War's Most Decisive Battle

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
Heart of the Trail: Stories of Covered Wagon Women

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Geoffrey Perret
Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

David Rehak
Did Lizzie Borden Axe for It?

Cara Robertson
The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Frances Diane Robotti & James Vescovi
The USS Essex & the Birth of the American Navy

Daniel N. Rolph
 My Brother's Keeper: Union & Confederate Soldiers' Acts of Mercy during the Civil War

Lee Sandlin
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

Ruth Hoover Seitz
Pennsylvania's Historic Places

Shekhar Shimpi
Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story

Donald G. Shomette
The Othello Affair

Hampton Sides
Blood & Thunder

Daniel Stashower
The Beautiful Cigar Girl

David Stinebeck & Scannell Gill
A Civil General

James L. Swanson
Chasing Lincoln's Killer

Karen Holliday Tanner & John D. Tanner Jr.
Last of the Old Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story

Lauren Tarshis
I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888

Roy Edwin Thomas
Come Go With Me: Old-Timer Stories from the Southern Mountains

Sarah L. Thomson
What Lincoln Said

Saral Tiwari
Abraham Lincoln: The Civil War President

Allen W. Trelease
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy & Southern Reconstruction

Mark Van De Logt
War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

Sally M. Walker
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley

Mark Warner
The Tragedy of the Royal Tar

Steven E. Woodworth & Kenneth J. Winkle
Atlas of the Civil War

Scott Zesch
The Captured


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North American history: U.S. 1901-1945
Early 20th Century, World War I, Roaring '20s, Great Depression & World War II

Stephen E. Ambrose
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Blanche Caldwell Barrow
My Life with Bonnie & Clyde

Kevin Begos, Daniel Deaver, John Railey & Scott Sexton
Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program & the Campaign for Reparations

Nigel Blundell
A Century of Man-Made Disasters
Fallen Idols: A Century of Screen Sex Scandals

Jaime Breitnauer
The Spanish Flu Epidemic & Its Influence on History

Jack Brubaker
Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Richard E. Byrd
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Casey Cep
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud & the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Jerome Charyn
Gangsters & Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age & the Birth of Broadway

Nycole Collins
Columbia: Vice Wars on Front Street

Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty

Greg Dawson
Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946

Jon Diamond
Images of War: The Battle of Okinawa 1945: The Real Story Behind Hacksaw Ridge
Images of War: Hell in the Central Pacific: The Palau Islands 1944

C.S. Forester
Hunting the Bismarck

John Grehan
Images of War: Battle of Midway -- America's Decisive Strike in the Pacific in WWII

John Grehan & Alexander Nicoll
Images of Aviation: The Doolittle Raid: The First Air Attack Against Japan, April 1942

Jeff Guinn
War on the Border

Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit

Mark Kurlansky
The Food of a Younger Land

Robert Kurson
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

Dan Kurzman
No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains & the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

Angela J. Latham
Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, & Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s

Allison Lawlor
Rum-Running

Laurel Leff
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper

Walter Lord
A Night to Remember
The Night Lives On

Matthew P. Mayo
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

Candice Millard
The River of Doubt

David Mitchelhill-Green
Images of War: Air War over North Africa: USAAF Ascendant

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Elizabeth Pepin & Lewis Watts
Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

Richard J. Perry
United We Stand: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism

Bill Sloan
Given Up for Dead

Anthony Tucker-Jones
 Images of War: The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Images of War: Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945

Steve Turner
The Band That Played On

Simon Webb
Secret Casualties of World War II

Donovan Webster
The Burma Road

W.L. White
They Were Expendable


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North American history: U.S. 1946-2024
Late 20th/early 21st centuries, the Cold War Era to present

Brian David Andersen
"My God, I'm Hit!"

Diana Anhalt
A Gathering of Fugitives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico 1948-1965

Kevin Begos, Daniel Deaver, John Railey & Scott Sexton
Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program & the Campaign for Reparations

Nigel Blundell
A Century of Man-Made Disasters
Fallen Idols: A Century of Screen Sex Scandals

Kristen Breitweiser
Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow

Marilyn Church
The Art of Justice: An Eyewitness View of Thirty Infamous Trials

Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty

John Crawford
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

Charles A. Crenshaw, with Jens Hansen & J. Gary Shaw
JFK: A Conspiracy of Silence

Walter Cronkite
Cronkite Remembers

Antonino D'Ambrosio
A Heartbeat & a Guitar: Johnny Cash & the Making of "Bitter Tears"

Josh Dean
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

Robert A. Divine
Eisenhower & the Cold War

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Outlaw Woman: a Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975

Gene Feldman & Max Gartenberg, editors
The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men

Ann Fessler
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Mitchell Fink
Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

Michael Green
Images of War: United States Marine Corps in Vietnam
Images of War: US Cold War Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles

David Hadju
The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare & How It Changed America

James Hosty
Assignment: Oswald

Cassidy Hutchinson
Enough

Clay S. Jenkinson
Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century

Seth Kantor
The Ruby Cover-Up

Gary Valentine Lachman
Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Mark Lane
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?

David S. Lifton
Best Evidence: Disguise & Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Benjamin J. Luft
We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice & Renewal

Toby Mac & Michael Tait
Under God

Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden: How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished

Leigh Neville
Guns of the Special Forces 2001-2015

Robert W. Norris
Looking for the Summer

Barack Obama
A Promised Land

Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen
Renegades: Born in the USA

Michelle Obama
Becoming

Nick Offerman
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

Ian Passingham
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time

Alan Rogers
New England Remembers: The Boston Strangler

Hans Seidler
Images of War: Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945

Charles E. Skoller
Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese & Barbara Kralik Murder Trials

Paul Slansky
The George W. Bush Quiz Book

William L. Smith
Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture

Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew, with Annette Lawrence Drew
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Howard P. Willens
History will Prove Us Right: Inside the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Howard Zinn
Terrorism & War


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North American history: Canada

Ted Barris
Juno: Canadians at D-Day

Joseph Boyden
Three Day Road

Chester Brown
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

Peter Edwards
One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis

Melissa Fay Greene
Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

Jacqueline Langille
Giants Angus McAskill & Anna Swan

Jennifer Niven
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Bruce Nunn
History with a Twist: Unusual Stories from Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

John Ralston Saul
Joseph Howe & the Battle for Freedom of Speech

Mark Warner
The Tragedy of the Royal Tar

Richard Thomas Wright & Cathryn Wellner
Castles in the Air


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European history: England

Norman L. Baker
Braddock's Road: Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela

Michael Thomas Barry
Great Britain's Royal Tombs: A Guide to the Lives & Burial Places of British Monarchs

Stephen Basdeo
Heroes & Villains of the British Empire: Their Lives & Legends
Robin Hood: The Life & Legend of an Outlaw

Billy Bragg
The Progressive Patriot

Vyvyen Brendon
Children at Sea: Lives Shaped by the Waves

John Brophy & Eric Partridge
The Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs & Slang, 1914-1918
- aka Songs & Slang of the British Soldier, 1914-1918

Phil Carradice
Britain's Last Invasion: The Battle of Fishguard 1797

Ian Castle
The First Blitz in 100 Objects

William Crooker & Elizabeth Peirce
Saladin: Piracy, Mutiny & Murder on the High Seas

W.H. Fitchett, editor
Waterloo 1815: Captain Mercer's Journal

Judith Flanders
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

Melody Foreman
The Wreck Hunter: Battle of Britain & the Blitz

Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Nelson's Officers & Midshipmen
Nelson's Sailors
Trafalgar 1805: Nelson's Crowning Victory

Ian Friel
Britain & the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks & People 1297-1825

John Grehan & Alexander Nicoll
Images of War: Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo: Nine Days That Saved an Army

Thomas E. Hachey
Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State

Lucinda Hawksley
Dickens & Christmas

Victor Head
Hereward

Keith Henson
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in York

Paul Hill
The Anglo-Saxons at War 800-1066

Mark Hillier
Royal Flying Corps Kitbag

James Hobson
The English Civil War: Fact & Fiction

Gill Hoffs
The Lost Story of the William & Mary: The Cowardice of Captain Stinson
The Sinking of RMS Tayleur: The Lost Story of the Victorian Titanic

Helen Hollick
Life of a Smuggler: Fact & Fiction

Katherine Howe, editor
The Penguin Book of Witches

Harold F. Hutchison
Edward II

Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund, editors
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper

J.J. Jenkins
The Napoleonic Wars, illustrated by William Heath

Mark Jessop
The Royal Navy 1793-1800: Birth of a Superpower

Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
The Year 1000

Erin Lawless
Forgotten Royal Women: The King & I

Matthew Lewis
Richard III: Fact & Fiction

Walter Lord
A Night to Remember
The Night Lives On

Steven E. Maffeo
The Perfect Wreck

Lucinda Moore
Images of War: Animals in the Great War

John E. Morris
The Welsh Wars of Edward I

John Moss
A History of English Place Names & Where They Came From

J.E. Neale
Queen Elizabeth I

Patrick O'Brian
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy

Roger Paine
Clear Lower Deck: A Collection of My Naval Yarns

Mike Parker
Neighbours from Hell?

Bryan Perrett
The Real Hornblower: The Life & Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon GCB

Lucy Merello Peterson
The Women Who Inspired London Art

Dudley Pope
Decision at Trafalgar
The Devil Himself: The Mutiny of 1800

Anthony Poulton-Smith
Crime on the Canals

Mike Rendell
Crusoe, Castaways & Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail

Edmund Richardson
The King's Shadow

Rebecca Rideal
1666: Plague, War & Hellfire

Tony Robinson
The Worst Jobs in History

Ian D. Rotherham
York's Military Legacy

A.L. Rowse
Bosworth Field & the Wars of the Roses

James Ruddick
Death at the Priory: Sex, Love & Murder in Victorian England

Austin J. Ruddy
The Home Front 1939-1945 in 100 Objects

Christopher Snyder
The World of King Arthur

Philip Sugden
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Matthew Sweet
Inventing the Victorians

Ilkka Syvanne
Britain in the Age of Arthur: A Military History

Graham A. Thomas
Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers

Anthony Tucker-Jones
Images of War: Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945

Steve Turner
The Band That Played On

Kevin Turton
Britain's Unsolved Murders

Johan van Zyl & the War Museum of the Boer Republics
The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects

John Wade
The Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Journey into Space with 1950s Radio, TV, Films, Comics & Books

Simon Webb
A History of Torture in Britain
The Real World of Victorian Steampunk: Steam Planes & Radiophones
Secret Casualties of World War II

Simon Wills
A History of Trees

Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Richard Zacks
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd


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European history: Ireland

Robert Baird
Diverse Druids

Brendan Behan
Borstal Boy

James Bonwick
Irish Druids & Old Irish Religions

Angela Bourke
The Burning of Bridget Cleary

Ciaran Brady, editor
The Encyclopedia of Ireland

Ron Chepesiuk
The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

Matthew J. Culligan & Peter Cherici
The Wandering Irish in Europe: Their Influence from the Dark Ages to Modern Times

Terry Deary
Horrible Histories: Ireland

Stephen Dunford
In Humbert's Footsteps: Mayo 1798

Peter Berresford Ellis
The Celtic Revolution

Tony Farmar
Privileged Lives

Peter Gray
The Irish Famine

Thomas E. Hachey
Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State

Margaret Hawkins
Restless Spirit

Martin McGartland
Fifty Dead Men Walking

David McWilliams
The Pope's Children

Don Mullan
Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth

Ulick O'Connor
Michael Collins & the Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922

Trina Robbins
Wild Irish Roses

Eric Roth, with Eileen McNamara
The Parting Glass: A Toast to the Traditional Pubs of Ireland

Sacred Symbols: The Celts

Olive Sharkey
Ways of Old: Traditional Life in Ireland

George Otto Simms
Brendan the Navigator

William L. Smith
Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture

Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham-Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith & Charles Woodham
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849


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European history: France

Phil Carradice
Britain's Last Invasion: The Battle of Fishguard 1797

Philip Dwyer
Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769-1799

W.H. Fitchett, editor
Waterloo 1815: Captain Mercer's Journal

Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Trafalgar 1805: Nelson's Crowning Victory

Gareth Glover
Napoleon in 100 Objects

Susan Nagel
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

Dudley Pope
Decision at Trafalgar

Tom Reiss
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, & the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Anthony Tucker-Jones
Images of War: Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945


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European history: Germany

Ian Baxter
Images of War: The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945

Ian Castle
The First Blitz in 100 Objects

C.S. Forester
Hunting the Bismarck

Tim Heath
Hitler's Housewives: German Women on the Home Front

Victor Klemperer
I Will Bear Witness: 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years

David Marks
The Zeppelin Offensive: A German Perspective in Pictures & Postcards

David Mathieson
A Guide to Hitler's Munich

Roger Moorhouse
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany

Gerhard Ritter
Frederick the Great: A Historical Profile

Hans Seidler
Images of War: Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945

Anna Marie Sigmund
Women of the Third Reich

Anthony Tucker-Jones
Images of War: The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Images of War: Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945


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European history: Mediterranean

Robert E. Bell
Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary

Robert E. Gaebel
Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World

Suzanne Ma
Meet Me in Venice


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European history: Scotland

Ben Buxton
Mingulay: An Island & its People

Ron Chepesiuk
The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

Peter Berresford Ellis
The Celtic Revolution

William Hamilton, et al
Blind Harry's Wallace

Mairi Hedderwick
An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey

Lloyd & Jenny Laing
The Picts & the Scots

James MacKay
William Wallace: Brave Heart

R. Andrew McDonald
The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard in the Central Middle Ages


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European history: Spain

Rosa Maria Artal
11M-14M Onda Expansiva

Jose Luis Alvarez Emparantza (a.k.a., Txillardegi)
Euskal Herria en el Horizonte (Basque Homeland on the Horizon)

Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Trafalgar 1805: Nelson's Crowning Victory

Mark Kurlansky
The Basque History of the World

Dudley Pope
Decision at Trafalgar

Nicholas Rankin
Telegram from Guernica

Giles Tremlett
Ghosts of Spain

Paddy Woodworth
The Basque Country: A Cultural History


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World history: The Netherlands

Anthony Tucker-Jones
 Images of War: The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945


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World history: Poland

Anthony Tucker-Jones
Images of War: The Battle for Warsaw 1939-1945


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European history: Wales

Peter Berresford Ellis
The Celtic Revolution

Gwynfor Evans
The Fight for Welsh Freedom

Rhys Evans
Gwynfor Evans: A Portrait of a Patriot

John E. Morris
The Welsh Wars of Edward I

Mike Parker
Neighbours from Hell?


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World history: Africa

Jean Davison
The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya

Martin Dugard
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Frank Joseph
The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus

Johan van Zyl & the War Museum of the Boer Republics
The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects

Michela Wrong
I Didn't Do It for You


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World history: India

Alain Danielou
A Brief History of India (L'Histoire de l'Inde)

Jane Yolen & Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple
The Wolf Girls: An Unsolved Mystery from History, illustrated by Roger Roth


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World history: Russia

Ian Baxter
Images of War: The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad


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World history: Middle East

Thura Al-Windawi
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq

Leith Anderson
Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land & His People

Karen Armstrong
Islam: A Short History

Carmen Bin Ladin
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia

John Crawford
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

Gawdat Gabra
Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art & Architecture

T.C.F. Hopkins
Empires, Wars, & Battles

Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Three Cups of Tea

Jesus Muhammad-Ali
The Evolution of the Nation of Islam

Tudor Parfitt
The Thirteenth Gate: Travels Among the Lost Tribes of Israel

Heather Pringle
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, & the Everlasting Dead

Edmund Richardson
The King's Shadow

Sacred Symbols: Ancient Egypt


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Periods in history: The Middle Ages

Bettina Bildhauer & Robert Mills, editors
The Monstrous Middle Ages

Phyllis Pray Bober
Art, Culture & Cuisine: Ancient & Medieval Gastronomy

Salvatore T. Bruno
Templar Organization: The Management of Warrior Monasticism

Paul Hill
The Anglo-Saxons at War 800-1066

Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
The Year 1000

A.L. Rowse
Bosworth Field & the Wars of the Roses


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Periods in history: The Renaissance

Ann Depas-Orange & Robert C. Evans, editors
The Birthday of Myself: Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet


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Periods in history: The Age of Sail

David Blackmore
Blunders & Disasters at Sea

Vyvyen Brendon
Children at Sea: Lives Shaped by the Waves

Robert Ellis Cahill
New England's Naughty Navy

Nigel Cawthorne
A History of Pirates: Blood & Thunder on the High Seas

Owen Chase
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

David Cordingly
Under the Black Flag

William S. Crooker
Pirates of the North Atlantic

William Crooker & Elizabeth Peirce
Saladin: Piracy, Mutiny & Murder on the High Seas

Mike Dash
Batavia's Graveyard

Jeremy D'Entremont
Great Shipwrecks of the Maine Coast

Chris Dickon
The Enduring Journey of the USS Chesapeake

Eric Jay Dolin
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
 Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, & Survival at the Edge of the World
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl
Pirates of New Jersey

Joan Druett
In the Wake of Madness
Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
She Captains: Heroines & Hellions of the Sea

Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Nelson's Officers & Midshipmen
Nelson's Sailors
Trafalgar 1805: Nelson's Crowning Victory

David Frew
Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle

Ian Friel
Britain & the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks & People 1297-1825

Joyce Glasner
Pirates & Privateers

Neil Hanson
The Custom of the Sea

Brian Hicks
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew

Helen Hollick
Life of a Smuggler: Fact & Fiction

Mark Jessop
The Royal Navy 1793-1800: Birth of a Superpower

Edward Lodi
Nantucket Sleigh-Ride

Sara Lorimer
Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas

Steven E. Maffeo
The Perfect Wreck

Sean McGrail
Early Ships & Seafaring: European Water Transport

Dallas Murphy
Rounding the Horn

James L. Nelson
Benedict Arnold's Navy
Reign of Iron

Patrick O'Brian
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Dudley Pope
Decision at Trafalgar
The Devil Himself: The Mutiny of 1800

Diana & Michael Preston
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind

Howard Pyle
The Book of Pirates

Mike Rendell
Crusoe, Castaways & Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail

Frances Diane Robotti & James Vescovi
The USS Essex & the Birth of the American Navy

David J. Seibold & Charles J. Adams III
Shipwrecks & Legends 'Round Cape May

Gail Selinger with W. Thomas Smith Jr.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates

Julian Stockwin
Stockwin's Maritime Miscellany

Graham A. Thomas
Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers

Rayner Thrower
The Pirate Picture

Alan Villiers
Square-Rigged Ships

Sally M. Walker
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley

Jane Yolen
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens

Richard Zacks
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd


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Periods in history: World War II

Stephen E. Ambrose
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Ted Barris
Juno: Canadians at D-Day

Ian Baxter
Images of War: The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945

James Bradley
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

Les Brown
British Sloops & Frigates of the Second World War

Greg Dawson
Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946

Jon Diamond
Images of War: The Battle of Okinawa 1945: The Real Story Behind Hacksaw Ridge
Images of War: Hell in the Central Pacific: The Palau Islands 1944

Melody Foreman
The Wreck Hunter: Battle of Britain & the Blitz

C.S. Forester
Hunting the Bismarck

Adrian Gilbert, Tom C. McKinney, Dan Mills, et al
The Sniper Anthology: Snipers of the Second World War

John Grehan
Images of War: Battle of Midway: America's Decisive Strike in the Pacific in WWII

John Grehan & Alexander Nicoll
Images of Aviation: The Doolittle Raid: The First Air Attack Against Japan, April 1942
Images of War: Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo: Nine Days That Saved an Army

Pauline Hayton
A Corporal's War: World War II Adventures of a Royal Engineer

Tim Heath
Hitler's Housewives: German Women on the Home Front

Victor Klemperer
I Will Bear Witness: 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years

Dan Kurzman
No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains & the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

Laurel Leff
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper

David Mathieson
A Guide to Hitler's Munich

David Mitchelhill-Green
Images of War: Air War over North Africa: USAAF Ascendant

Roger Moorhouse
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany

Richard J. Perry
United We Stand: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism

Austin J. Ruddy
The Home Front 1939-1945 in 100 Objects

Hans Seidler
Images of War: Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945

Anna Marie Sigmund
Women of the Third Reich

Bill Sloan
Given Up for Dead

Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Pianist

Anthony Tucker-Jones
 Images of War: The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Images of War: The Battle for Warsaw 1939-1945
Images of War: Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945

John Walter
The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A-Z Guide to World Sniping

Simon Webb
Secret Casualties of World War II

Donovan Webster
The Burma Road


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General World History

Nathan Belofsky
Strange Medicine

Mikael Bodlore-Penlaez
Atlas of Stateless Nations in Europe

Jaime Breitnauer
The Spanish Flu Epidemic & Its Influence on History

Jack Brubaker
Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Anna Claybourne
History's Mysteries: Legends & Lore

Michael D. Coe, editor
Swords & Hilt Weapons

Richard Davenport-Hines
Gothic

Victor Davis Hanson
Ripples of Battle

Mike Flanagan
It's About Time: How Long History Took

Larry Gonick
The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 1
The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad

Louis Haber
Black Pioneers of Science & Invention

Brian Harris
Injustice

Tom A. Jerman
Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas & Other Holiday Gift-Bringers

Tony Judt
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Cecil Kuhne, editor
Near Death in the Arctic: True Stories of Disaster & Survival

Vicki Leon
Uppity Women of Ancient Times

Ralph Lewin
Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural & Socio-Historical Coprology

Sara Lorimer
Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas

Sean McGrail
Early Ships & Seafaring: European Water Transport

Roger Osborne
Civilisation

John Pilger, editor
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism & Its Triumphs

Michael Powell
Back in the Day

Tony Robinson
The Worst Jobs in History

Michelle Rosenberg
Warriors & Wenches: Sex & Power in Women's History

Andreas Schroeder
Cheats, Charlatans, & Chicanery

Ruth Hoover Seitz
Pennsylvania's Historic Places

Andrew Thompson
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?

Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin & Scott Rubin
In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People

Peter G. Tsouras, editor
The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations

Marlene Wagman-Geller
Eureka! The Surprising Stories Behind the Ideas That Shaped the World

John Walter
The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A-Z Guide to World Sniping

Simon Webb
The Real World of Victorian Steampunk: Steam Planes & Radiophones


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Discovering & Re-enacting History

Richard Barber
The Holy Grail: Imagination & Belief

Les Brown
British Sloops & Frigates of the Second World War

Mark C. Carnes, editor
Novel History: Historians & Novelists Confront America's Past

W. Hodding Carter
A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World

Melody Foreman
The Wreck Hunter: Battle of Britain & the Blitz

Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic

Sean McGrail
Early Ships & Seafaring: European Water Transport

Michael Powell
Back in the Day

Roland Wells Robbins
Discovery at Walden

Steven P. Unger
In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey & Travel Guide

Barry Vann
Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage


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Biography & Autobiography

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