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If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy, from the American Revolution to the War of 1812
George C. Daughan.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780465025145.  Daedalus Item Code: 31183
 
(Samuel Eliot Morison Award Winner) When the American colonies took up arms against Great Britain, they were confronting the greatest sea power of the age. And it was during the War of ... (Read More)
 
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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Mitchell Zuckoff.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061988356.  Daedalus Item Code: 29277
 
(Winship/PEN New England Award Winner) American servicemen John McCollom and Kenneth Decker and WAC corporal Margaret Hastings were the only survivors of a transport plane that crashed in the ... (Read More)
 
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Machiavelli: A Biography
Miles J. Unger.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781416556305.  Daedalus Item Code: 29406
 
The name of Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with the cynical and selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a humane and perceptive writer whose controversial ... (Read More)
 
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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Anthony Brandt.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307263926.  Daedalus Item Code: 21661
 
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the 16th century: find the fabled Northwest ... (Read More)
 
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Maps of War
Ashley & Miles Baynton-Williams.
Publisher: Quercus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781847242068.  Daedalus Item Code: 32526
 
From a cartographical depiction of the battle of Pinkie Cleugh between England and Scotland in 1547 (the earliest map printed in the British Isles) and chartings of the American War of Independence ... (Read More)
 
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The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
V.S. Naipaul.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307270733.  Daedalus Item Code: 31060
 
Like the Nobel Prize winner's other "travel" books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: V.S. Naipaul estimates the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, ... (Read More)
 
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The Medieval World at War
Matthew Bennett, ed.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780500251560.  Daedalus Item Code: 31447
 
The thousand years spanning the fall of the Roman Empire and the Reformation was a time of immense diversity in military practice, from Charlemagne's empire-building, the Viking invasions of northern ... (Read More)
 
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Robert Dallek.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060722319.  Daedalus Item Code: 22319
 
In this New York Times bestseller Robert Dallek uncovers details about the tumultuous personal relationship between two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in recent ... (Read More)
 
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Pagan Spain
Richard Wright.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061450198.  Daedalus Item Code: 23401
 
A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. Francisco Franco's Spain in ... (Read More)
 
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375713255.  Daedalus Item Code: 38567
 
(Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography) The fourth entry in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book ... (Read More)
 
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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
Timothy Snyder.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465002375.  Daedalus Item Code: 21768
 
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and every so often, a dress. He could handle a ... (Read More)
 
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307701220.  Daedalus Item Code: 38568
 
This outstanding single-volume history of the American Revolution, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winner Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, ... (Read More)
 
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