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Empires Apart: A History of American and Russian Imperialism
Brian Landers.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781605981062.  Daedalus Item Code: 21594
 
The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia, posits business and public policy advisor Brian Landers. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals ... (Read More)
 
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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Roger Crowley.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780812977646.  Daedalus Item Code: 31268
 
In 1521 Suleiman the Magnificent, ruling the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes—the opening shot in an epic struggle between ... (Read More)
 
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Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Evan D.G. Fraser & Andrew Rimas.
Publisher: Counterpoint.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781582437934.  Daedalus Item Code: 38722
 
Using the colorful diaries of a 16th-century merchant as a narrative guide, this book vividly chronicles the fate of people and societies for the past 12,000 years through the foods they grew, ... (Read More)
 
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Escape from the Third Reich: The Harrowing True Story of the Largest Rescue Effort Inside Nazi Germany
Sune Persson. Brian Urquhart, intro.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781602399686.  Daedalus Item Code: 14137
 
The largest rescue operation of German concentration camp prisoners in World War II was conducted by the Swedish Red Cross, who used distinctive white buses to transport 17,000 refugees from ... (Read More)
 
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The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence
Orville Vernon Burton, ed.
Publisher: Hill & Wang.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780809043071.  Daedalus Item Code: 10435
 
The author of The Age of Lincoln, historian Orville Vernon Burton culled the thousands of pages of Abraham Lincoln's writings to produce this collection of 29 of his most compelling and ... (Read More)
 
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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson, A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic
Peter C. Mancall.
Publisher: Basic/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465005116.  Daedalus Item Code: 23450
 
English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a sailing route through America, and became the first European to navigate the river that now bears his name. Yet his experience and ... (Read More)
 
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The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
Victor Davis Hanson.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781608191659.  Daedalus Item Code: 31891
 
"War," Victor Davis Hanson writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented, but human nature is constant across time and space, and the ... (Read More)
 
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A Few Good Women: America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781400044344.  Daedalus Item Code: 21068
 
This history of the U.S. women's military corps surveys the changing role of women in warfare and profiles women who fought for the right to serve in our armed forces, from the 57 army nurses who ... (Read More)
 
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Neil Sheehan.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780679422846.  Daedalus Item Code: 21510
 
"As he did unforgettably in A Bright Shining Lie, [Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Neil] Sheehan here tells the story both of a warrior and of a war, in this case a cold one. The ... (Read More)
 
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Fighting for the Fatherland: The Story of the German Soldier from 1648 to the Present Day
David Stone. Richard Holmes, foreword.
Publisher: Potomac.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781597970693.  Daedalus Item Code: 03120
 
The German soldier's cultural legacy is founded in the romanticized Teutonic legends of Germanic mythology, while his sense of national identity was forged by the imperatives of Brandenburg's and ... (Read More)
 
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Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics, AD 1200–1860
Michael E. Haskew, Christer Jorgensen, Chris McNab, Eric Niderost & Rob S. Rice.
Publisher: St. Martin's.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780312386962.  Daedalus Item Code: 03247
 
With line drawings, color reproductions, or three-dimensional battle maps on every two-page spread, this detailed, wide-ranging history examines warfare in Asia and the Pacific from the 13th-century ... (Read More)
 
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Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45
Max Hastings.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780007371594.  Daedalus Item Code: 32310
 
A celebrated British war correspondent and the author of the Somerset Maugham Award–winning Bomber Command, Max Hastings here adds to the voluminous shelf of Winston Churchill books with a ... (Read More)
 
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