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Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession
Russell McClintock.
Publisher: UNC Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780807831885.  Daedalus Item Code: 22801
 
When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. From small towns to major cities, from state capitals to ... (Read More)
 
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Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography
Matthew Dennison.
Publisher: St. Martin's.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780312658649.  Daedalus Item Code: 30055
 
The author of The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter here brings to life the infamous empress of Rome, Livia, long considered one of the most feared ... (Read More)
 
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Long Way Back to the River Kwai: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II
Loet Velmans.
Publisher: Arcade.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781611451856.  Daedalus Item Code: 22415
 
Only 17 when the Nazis invaded his native Holland, Loet Velmans and his family escaped to London in 1940. From there they settled in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where Velmans was drafted ... (Read More)
 
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
David Laskin.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061233333.  Daedalus Item Code: 13800
 
The author of The Children's Blizzard here traces the lives of a dozen men who left their childhood homes in Europe around the turn of the 20th century, journeyed to America and were processed ... (Read More)
 
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Lost Treasures: Civilization's Great Riches Rediscovered
Jane McIntosh.
Publisher: Carlton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781847322999.  Daedalus Item Code: 12106
 
Beautifully illustrated with more than 250 captioned color photographs and reproductions of art, this book surveys the treasures of the world that have been sunk, buried, entombed, and otherwise ... (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 Making of Modern Britain: The Age of Empire to the New Millennium
Jeremy Black.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780750947558.  Daedalus Item Code: 30443
 
In this account of Britain's rise and fall over the past 200 years, history professor Jeremy Black paints a provocative image of a once great nation reduced to a mere component of the European Union. ... (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: Anchor.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780307276568.  Daedalus Item Code: 19125
 
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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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
Denis Avey with Rob Broomby.
Publisher: DaCapo.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780306821493.  Daedalus Item Code: 29035
 
In this gripping and profoundly honest memoir, British World War II veteran Denis Avey recounts how he investigated for himself the horror stories about Jews in German prison camps. A POW in a labor ... (Read More)
 
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March of Death: Sir John Moore's Retreat to Corunna, 1808–1809
Christopher Summerville.
Publisher: Greenhill.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781853675645.  Daedalus Item Code: 22803
 
Few episodes of British military history have been as dramatic as John Moore's retreat to Corunna in the bitter winter of 1808, when his small British force was outnumbered and outmaneuvered by ... (Read More)
 
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Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
James McDermott.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300083804.  Daedalus Item Code: 31847
 
(2001 Keith Matthews Prize Winner)Sponsored by the Canadian Nautical Research Society, James McDermott’s biography of the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher is a highly entertaining account of the ... (Read More)
 
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