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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary

The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Walter Lord Holt Paperbacks

A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember. Sunday,...

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Blood Rites

Origins and History of the Passions of War

Barbara Ehrenreich A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Warrior's Honor Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience Michael Ignatieff A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Plotting Hitler's Death The Story of German Resistance Joachim Fest; Translated by Bruce Little A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Fest recounts in vivid detail the events leading up to the July 20, 1944 attempt by German anti-Nazi conspirators to kill Hitler with a bomb, and for the first...

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	Iwo Jima Richard F. Newcomb; Foreword by General Harry Schmidt, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired Holt Paperbacks From the author of the bestselling Abandon Ship! comes aclassic work of World War II history. Richard F. Newcomb is one of the true masters of military...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Battle of Savo Island Richard F. Newcomb Holt Paperbacks From the author of the bestselling Abandon Ship! comes a classic work of World War II history. Richard F. Newcomb is one of the true masters of military...

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The Bridge at No Gun Ri

A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War

Charles J. Hanley, Sang-Hun Choe, and Martha Mendoza Holt Paperbacks

In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had massacred a large group of South Korean civilians...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Pearl Harbor Betrayed The True Story of a Man and a Nation under Attack Michael Gannon A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book For sixty years, myths about Pearl Harbor have proliferated. After six years of intense research, naval historian Michael Gannon has finally separated fact...

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The Righteous

The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks

“As a researcher and collector of historical source material, Mr. Gilbert has no peer among contemporary historians.” —The New York...

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The Day the War Ended

May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe

Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks

One of Britain’s most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30...

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Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	In the Shadows of War An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany Thomas Childers Holt Paperbacks A “masterful example of nonfiction brought to life”* —the harrowing account of an aviator’s World War II journey and the two people who...

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In the Company of Soldiers

A Chronicle of Combat

Rick Atkinson Holt Paperbacks

"Intimate, vivid, and well-informed . . . On the field of battle where more than 770 journalists were 'embedded,' Atkinson stood apart as one of the very rare...

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Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The First World War, Second Edition A Complete History Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks The acclaimed British historian offers a majestic, single-volume work incorporating all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-for "a stunning achievement...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Hell Riders The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade Terry Brighton A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book “An outstanding work that strips away much of the nonsense that has surrounded a tragic military blunder . . . [a] splendid examination.” —Booklist On...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	To Conquer Hell The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War Edward G. Lengel Holt Paperbacks The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history On September 26, 1918, more than one million American...

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In a Time of War

The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002

Bill Murphy, Jr. Holt Paperbacks

The “inspiring and heartbreaking” story of West Point’s class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime (The Washington Post) They came to...

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An Army at Dawn

The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

Rick Atkinson Holt Paperbacks

In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war...

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A Rumor of War

Philip Caputo Holt Paperbacks

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...

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Eisenhower

A Soldier's Life

Carlo D'Este A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“An excellent book . . . D’Este’s masterly account comes into its own.” —The Washington Post Book World Born into hardscrabble...

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Brotherhood of the Bomb

The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

Gregg Herken A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict...

L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - History

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Blood Brothers

Among the Soldiers of Ward 57

Michael Weisskopf Holt Paperbacks

This “expert piece of journalism by a brave man about brave men” follows three soldiers and a reporter through eighteen months on Ward 57, Walter Reed’s...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Churchill A Life Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight...

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Nelson

A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797

John Sugden A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

The most authoritative and captivating account ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence Among...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Lions of Iwo Jima Major General Fred Haynes (USMC-ret) and James A. Warren A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book “In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America...

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