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| The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars
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Richard Overy.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021130. Daedalus Item Code: 23420 |
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| The Wolfson Prize–winning author of The Dictators offers this remarkable analysis of how the fear of war shaped modern England. Britain had become a laboratory for modernity after World War ... (Read More)
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| The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
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Bill Morgan.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416592426. Daedalus Item Code: 21339 |
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| "[Bill] Morgan brings a productive career of chronicling the mid-20th-century writers known as the Beats to a fine point with this thorough popular history that eschews criticism to concentrate on ... (Read More)
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| An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli
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Niccolo Capponi.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780306817564. Daedalus Item Code: 21876 |
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| "Niccolò Machiavelli is renowned for being one of the most famous writers of his time. While subsequent scribes have decried him as a cynic, a soulless proponent of tyranny, and a political genius, ... (Read More)
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| Vanquished: Crushing Defeats from Ancient Rome to the 21st Century
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Mir Bahmanyar.
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| Publisher: Osprey. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781846033278. Daedalus Item Code: 23466 |
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| The battle of Cannae in 216 BC, where Hannibal annihilated a Roman army, has become legend, inspiring military strategists ever since to analyze and attempt this feat. Yet such battles are rare, and ... (Read More)
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| Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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Shrabani Basu.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752453644. Daedalus Item Code: 23176 |
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| The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just 24 years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he ... (Read More)
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| Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Coming of the American Civil War
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Glenn M. Linden.
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| Publisher: SR Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780842029995. Daedalus Item Code: 21975 |
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| Collecting writings from 17 Northerners and Southerners who lived through the years prior to the Civil War, this book explores the dramatic changes in thinking about the nature and value of the ... (Read More)
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| W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography
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David Levering Lewis.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805087697. Daedalus Item Code: 10438 |
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| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of ... (Read More)
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| War
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Sebastian Junger.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780446556224. Daedalus Item Code: 31133 |
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| Here the author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont immerses himself in the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men who face mortal danger on a daily ... (Read More)
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| The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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Evan Thomas.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316004091. Daedalus Item Code: 23354 |
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| On February 15th, 1898, the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. ... (Read More)
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| War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944
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Michael Green & James D. Brown.
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| Publisher: Zenith. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780760336694. Daedalus Item Code: 21351 |
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| Operation Overlord, the seaborne and airborne invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, proved to be the largest amphibious operation in history. Once ashore on the continent ... (Read More)
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| Warriors of the World: The Ancient Warrior: 3000 BCE–500 CE
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Martin J. Dougherty.
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| Publisher: Thomas Dunne. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780312596880. Daedalus Item Code: 30676 |
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| Spanning some 3500 years from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, this visual history describes the armies that fought on the battlefields of the classical world. Martin Dougherty explains how the ... (Read More)
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