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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

Nathaniel Philbrick
• Travels with George: In Search of George Washington & His Legacy

Kenneth Roberts
• The Battle of Cowpens

Nancy Roberts
• Blackbeard & Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast

Stacy Schiff
• The Witches: Salem, 1692

Donald G. Shomette
• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake

Olapeju Simoyan
•  Sweet Land of Liberty: The stories behind America's national symbols & songs

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

Colin Woodard
• The Republic of Pirates

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

Michael Burgan
• The Battle of Gettysburg

C.M. Butzer
• Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel

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

Jim Coogan
• Sail Away Ladies

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
• The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair & Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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

Gregory Gibson
• Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe

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

A.A. Hoehling
• Ships That Changed History

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: Old Ironsides & HMS Java

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 McCullough
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
• The Wright Brothers

Jana Milbocker
•  Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America's Golden Era

Scott L. Mingus Sr.
• Beyond the Burning Bridge: Wrightsville, Pa., in the Civil War
• 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

Matthew Pearl
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, & Murder

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?

Michael A. Riley
•  'For God's Sake, Forward!' General John F. Reynolds, USA

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

Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, Elders Cultural Advisory Council, & the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
• The Salish People & the Lewis & Clark Expedition

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
• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake

Hampton Sides
• Blood & Thunder

Olapeju Simoyan
•  Sweet Land of Liberty: The stories behind America's national symbols & songs

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

Cherie Burns
• The Great Hurricane: 1938

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

Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James
• The Man from the Train: Discovering America's Most Elusive Serial Killer

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

Jana Milbocker
•  Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America's Golden Era

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

Donald G. Shomette
• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake

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. 1946-2025
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

John U. Bacon
• The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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

Donald G. Shomette
• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake

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

Jonah Winter
• Barack, illustrated by AG Ford

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

Seren Charrington-Hollins • A Dark History of Tea

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
• Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks & Britain 1854-2007

David Grann
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny & Murder

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

A.A. Hoehling
• Ships That Changed History

Gill Hoffs
• The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch: Fire, Family & Fidelity
• 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

John Matthews
• Boadicea: Warrior Queen of the Celts

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?

Matthew Pearl
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, & Murder

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

Colin Woodard
• The Republic of Pirates

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

Dianna Boullier
• Exploring Irish Music & Dance

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

John Matthews
• Fionn Mac Cumhail: Champion of Ireland

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

Matthew Pearl
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, & Murder

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

Bob Stewart
• Cuchulainn: Hound of Ulster

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
• Images of War: The Fall of Berlin

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

Esther Nisenthal Krinitz & Bernice Steinhardt
• Memories of Survival

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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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

Nicholas Shrady
• Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa

Conor Whately
• A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare: Reconstructing the Physical Experience of War in the Classical World


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European history: The Netherlands

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


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European history: Poland

Esther Nisenthal Krinitz & Bernice Steinhardt
• Memories of Survival

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


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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

Bob Stewart
• Macbeth: Scotland's Warrior King


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Rosa Maria Artal
• 11M-14M Onda Expansiva

Jose Luis Alvarez Emparantza (a.k.a., Txillardegi)
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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
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Paddy Woodworth
• The Basque Country: A Cultural History


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European history: Wales

Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Celtic Revolution

Gwynfor Evans
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Rhys Evans
• Gwynfor Evans: A Portrait of a Patriot

John E. Morris
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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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Seren Charrington-Hollins • A Dark History of Tea


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Seren Charrington-Hollins • A Dark History of Tea

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

Daniele Cybulskie
• Life in Medieval Europe: Fact & Fiction

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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Ann Depas-Orange & Robert C. Evans, editors
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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
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•  New England's Pirates & Lost Treasures

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

Owen Chase
• The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Jim Coogan
• Sail Away Ladies

David Cordingly
• Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, & Sailors' Wives
• Under the Black Flag
• Women Sailors & Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History

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
• The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair & Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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
• Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks & Britain 1854-2007

Gregory Gibson
• Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe

Joyce Glasner
• Pirates & Privateers

David Grann
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny & Murder

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

Barb Karg & Arjean Spaite
•  The Everything Pirates Book

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

Matthew Pearl
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, & Murder

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

Nancy Roberts
• Blackbeard & Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast

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

Donald G. Shomette
• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake

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

Colin Woodard
• The Republic of Pirates

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
• Images of War: The Fall of Berlin

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

Esther Nisenthal Krinitz & Bernice Steinhardt
• Memories of Survival

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

Barry R. Davis
•  The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, & the Discoveries That Changed Our World

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

Tim Wood
• What They Don't Teach You About History


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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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