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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
Peter Englund. Peter Graves, translator.
Publisher: Profile.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781846683428.  Daedalus Item Code: 32027
 
In a multifaceted oral history that comes together "with the cumulative force of a major epic novel" (Scotsman), Swedish historian Peter Englund follows 20 people—soldiers and sailors, nurses ... (Read More)
 
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Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300095326.  Daedalus Item Code: 22089
 
(Finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award; a New York Times Notable Book; and named a Best Book of 2002 by Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American History Essays on Lincoln
Sean Wilentz, ed.
Publisher: Palgrave.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780230609143.  Daedalus Item Code: 30654
 
Ranging from assessments of Abraham Lincoln's political leadership to explorations of his enigmatic character, as well as reflections on the mythos that has become inseparable from the man, the ... (Read More)
 
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Best Little Stories from the American Revolution
C. Brian Kelly.
Publisher: Cumberland House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781581820065.  Daedalus Item Code: 30931
 
This journalistic history of the young United States chronicles the story of the Revolutionary War in the form of more than 100 vignettes depicting soldiers and civilians, loyalists and patriots, ... (Read More)
 
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
Marla R. Miller.
Publisher: Henry Holt.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780805082975.  Daedalus Item Code: 20167
 
This book is both a richly woven biography of patriot Betsy Ross and a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Revolution-era Philadelphia. A prize-winning historian of the colonial era and a ... (Read More)
 
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Big!: Big Records, Big Events, and Big Ideas in American History: Celebrating 75 Years of the National Archives
Stacey Bredhoff.
Publisher: D. Giles.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781904832621.  Daedalus Item Code: 14027
 
This oversized volume features big records, big events, and big ideas from the U.S. National Archives collection. Starting with the 13-foot scroll of the Articles of Confederation—the first ... (Read More)
 
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Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
Todd DePastino.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393334883.  Daedalus Item Code: 21111
 
During World War II, the truest glimpse that most Americans got of the "real war" came through the drawings of 22-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army ... (Read More)
 
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The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
William I. Hitchcock.
Publisher: Free Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780743273817.  Daedalus Item Code: 03287
 
This strikingly original, multinational history of liberation in World War II Europe brings to light the interactions of soldiers and civilians, the experiences of noncombatants, and the trauma of ... (Read More)
 
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The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift
Helena P. Schrader.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752456003.  Daedalus Item Code: 23170
 
On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union abruptly closed all access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over two million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and ... (Read More)
 
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The Book of Exploration
Ray Howgego.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781608190591.  Daedalus Item Code: 30287
 
Presented in a fine oversized edition with an elegantly simple format, this entertaining survey of heroic exploration from the author of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Exploration profiles ... (Read More)
 
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Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War
Giles Whittell.
Publisher: Broadway.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780767931076.  Daedalus Item Code: 23371
 
February 10, 1962. Who were the three men that the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin? Bridge of Spies provides the full backstory ... (Read More)
 
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A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Martyn Whittock.
Publisher: Robinson.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781845296858.  Daedalus Item Code: 21980
 
Between the 10th century and the Wars of the Roses in the mid-15th, England moved from the age of Saxon kings to the birth of the modern nation, while the consolidation of the crown and the feudal ... (Read More)
 
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