Featured History eBooks
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Retribution
By: Hastings, Max
"Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful. Hastings makes important points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely heard." --Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph ... more
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The Art of War
By: Tzu, Sun
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and cilivzat ... more
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Epidemic, The
By: Engel, Jonathan
From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, an ... more
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Band of Brothers
By: Ambrose, Stephen E.
Band of Brothers is the account of the men of the remarkable Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's E ... more
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Ladies of Liberty
By: Roberts, Cokie
In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned poli ... more
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Countdown to Crisis
By: Timmerman, Kenneth R.
Kenneth R. Timmerman is the New York Times bestselling author of The French Betrayal of America, Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America, Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jacks ... more
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Someone to Love
By: Michaels, Kasey
Has the matchmaker met her match? After her dissolute husband is killed while climbing out of another woman's window, Abigail Backworth Maldon is in no rush to remarry. Instead she decides to salvage what's le ... more
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Thunderstruck
By: Larson, Erik
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, ... more
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The Spymaster's Lady
By: Bourne, Joanna
She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now. She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined B ... more
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All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
By: Sewell, Kenneth
Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of ninety-nine lives. The tragedy occurred during the height o ... more
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
By: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
“This is a devastating account of the American occupation of Iraq. It shows how Americans arrived in Iraq full of big plans (and/or lucrative contracts) to help the country become more like ... more
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General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
By: Glatthaar, Joseph
""You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks,"" Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His ar ... more
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Dream Lucky
By: Orgill, Roxane
The time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City. ... more
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Story of Yiddish, The
By: Karlen, Neal
Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews h ... more
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Ladies of Liberty
By: Roberts, Cokie
In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned poli ... more
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Mary Anne
By: Saxby, Daphne Taylor
"Sold!" wept Mary Anne on her deathbed. "Sold for a bottle of rum!" "Love him," her mother had said. "Loving is not always easy. It will mean caring for him, cooking and cleaning for him -- and bearing his children. But ... more
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95 Bravo
By: Deibert, Larry
It is 1970, and the United States is still deeply bogged down in the quagmire known as Vietnam. Greg Taylor, a rural bred Pennsylvanian, finds himself becoming yet another cog in the massive military machine known as the US Arm ... more
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MP - A Novel of Vietnam
By: Schembra, John
June 1967 As Vincent Torelli stepped off the plane at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, he was almost overwhelmed by the stench in the hot, humid air. He still had a hard time realizing he was in Vietnam. Dr ... more
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Jackie Ari & Jack: The Tragic Love Triangle
By: Jones, January
Jackie Ari & Jack: The Tragic Love Triangle is a version of the tragic love triangle that included Jackie Kennedy, Aristototle Onassis and John Kennedy that is based on researched facts. Januar ... more
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Empire of Wealth, An
By: Gordon, John Steele
Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated ... more
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Top History eBooks
Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer by Morrell, MargotGive Me Liberty!, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1 by Foner, EricProject Lessons from The Great Escape (Stalag Luft III) by Kozak-Holland, MarkThe Longest Patrol by Owen, Gregory L.The Spymaster's Lady by Bourne, JoannaParis: An Electronic Tour of the Old City by Berger, Robert, W.The Art of War by Tzu, SunSamurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Milton, GilesThe Girl From Rotterdam by de Graaff, ElisabethThe Demon in the Freezer by Preston, Richard, Jr.All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Kinzer, StephenAmerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer by Graysmith, RobertCommon Sense; The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Paine, ThomasAuschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Nyiszli, MiklosDeath in the Afternoon by Hemingway, Ernest
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