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Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	A Night to Remember Walter Lord; Introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick Holt Paperbacks The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First...

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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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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown Holt Paperbacks

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	To Hell and Back Audie Murphy; Foreword by Tom Brokaw Holt Paperbacks The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback Originally published in 1949,...

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The Historical Atlas of New York City, Second Edition

A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History

Eric Homberger; Alice Hudson, Cartographic Consultant Holt Paperbacks

A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book The rich and eminently browsable visual guide to the history of New York, in an all-new second...

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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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The Day of Battle

The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

Rick Atkinson Holt Paperbacks

“A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York Times In...

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The Tycoons

How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Charles R. Morris Holt Paperbacks

“Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.”—The Christian Science Monitor The modern...

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A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition

The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin Holt Paperbacks

Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a...

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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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Failed States

The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

American Empire Project

Noam Chomsky A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“It’s hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light.”—The New York Times Book Review The...

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Arc of Justice

A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle Holt Paperbacks

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Freethinkers A History of American Secularism Susan Jacoby A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book "Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation...

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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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The White Cascade

The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

Gary Krist Holt Paperbacks

“Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjures...

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The Long Gray Line

The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

Rick Atkinson Holt Paperbacks

“Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance . . . A very moving book.” —James Salter, The Washington Post Book World A classic of its...

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Daniel Boone

The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

John Mack Faragher Holt Paperbacks

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years,...

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Chinese Lessons

Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

John Pomfret Holt Paperbacks

A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four...

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Imperial Reckoning

The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins Holt Paperbacks

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied...

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Empire's Workshop

Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

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Greg Grandin A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present.” —Naomi...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	The Second World War A Complete History Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks A "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came...

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A Great Improvisation

Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

Stacy Schiff Holt Paperbacks

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December...

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Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Cold War A History Martin Walker Holt Paperbacks "The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since 1954." So begins this wide-ranging narrative by an award-winning political commentator,...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	American Mafia A History of Its Rise to Power Thomas Reppetto A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book "Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." —The New York Times Book...

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