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War
Sebastian Junger.
Publisher: Twelve.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780446556224.  Daedalus Item Code: 31133
 
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
Evan Thomas.
Publisher: Little, Brown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780316004091.  Daedalus Item Code: 23354
 
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
Michael Green & James D. Brown.
Publisher: Zenith.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780760336694.  Daedalus Item Code: 21351
 
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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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
Caroline Alexander.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670021123.  Daedalus Item Code: 23421
 
This groundbreaking reading of the Iliad from the author of The Bounty restores Homer's often overlooked vision of the tragedy of war. Using the legend of Achilles and the Trojan war, ... (Read More)
 
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Warriors of the World: The Ancient Warrior: 3000 BCE–500 CE
Martin J. Dougherty.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780312596880.  Daedalus Item Code: 30676
 
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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Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594202667.  Daedalus Item Code: 31234
 
(Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography) The National Book Award–winning author of The House of Morgan, Alexander Hamilton, and Titan: The Life of John D. ... (Read More)
 
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The Way We Were: New York: Nostalgic Images of the Empire State
M.J. Howard & Greg Dinkins.
Publisher: Globe Pequot.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780762754540.  Daedalus Item Code: 22945
 
New York City is indelibly etched as a land of skyscrapers and taxi horns, yet the city—and the state beyond—has undergone constant change. Here you'll find newly dug subway tunnels and parts of ... (Read More)
 
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We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition
Cokie Roberts.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061715921.  Daedalus Item Code: 22326
 
In this tenth-anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller, political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's role through the lens of her personal ... (Read More)
 
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Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents
George Weller. Anthony Weller, ed.
Publisher: Crown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307406552.  Daedalus Item Code: 13295
 
Walter Cronkite called him "one of our best war correspondents," and his stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific during World War II earned him the Pulitzer Prize. George Weller is given a ... (Read More)
 
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What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries
George Biro & Jim Leavesley.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752459103.  Daedalus Item Code: 30471
 
Two retired general practitioners—one now a medical journalist, the other a medical historian—here unearth and examine some of history's most intriguing maladies and the great persons who were shaped ... (Read More)
 
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Gail Collins.
Publisher: Little, Brown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780316059541.  Daedalus Item Code: 22367
 
Here the author of America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines focuses on the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years. In the same ... (Read More)
 
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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
Gal Beckerman.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547577470.  Daedalus Item Code: 31512
 
At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union, unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state yet forbidden to leave. Telling the full and inspiring story of ... (Read More)
 
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