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Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed ...
Gavin Mortimer.
 
Publisher: Walker
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780802717115
Daedalus Item Code: 31877
 
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The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the ...
Harry Patch & Richard van Emden.
 
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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ISBN: 9781608192250
Daedalus Item Code: 31908
 
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Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
Diana Preston.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802717382.  Daedalus Item Code: 31880
 
Their love joined two great empires, and they died rather than being captured by their enemies. In this history Diana Preston lays aside the romanticized legends surrounding ancient history's most ... (Read More)
 
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A Senseless, Squalid War: Voices from Palestine 1890s–1948
Norman Rose.
Publisher: Pimlico.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781845950798.  Daedalus Item Code: 32340
 
The troubles in Palestine between the end of World War II and the declaration of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948, ruptured the Middle East and left an indelible mark on the modern world. In ... (Read More)
 
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Battle of Britain
Patrick Bishop.
Publisher: Quercus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781849162241.  Daedalus Item Code: 32505
 
The author of the popular histories Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys here gives us a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe in the 1940 Battle ... (Read More)
 
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An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson
Arno Linklater.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780802777713.  Daedalus Item Code: 31868
 
For almost two decades, through the War of 1812, James Wilkinson was the senior general in the United States Army. He was also a spy for the Spanish secret service—a position all the more remarkable ... (Read More)
 
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How to Mellify a Corpse: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition
Vicki Leon.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780802717023.  Daedalus Item Code: 31902
 
From Alexander the Great, who reportedly had himself mellified (embalmed in honey) and was in viewable condition for the next 500 years, to the Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical calculator from ... (Read More)
 
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Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought On the Civil War
Douglas R. Egerton.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781596916197.  Daedalus Item Code: 31931
 
In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. But the Democrats would split over the issue of ... (Read More)
 
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Robert M. Poole.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802715487.  Daedalus Item Code: 31915
 
"Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hills in ... (Read More)
 
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Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
Simon Reid-Henry.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802715739.  Daedalus Item Code: 31892
 
Creating a dual portrait from historical sources in Cuba, Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Russia, and from interviews he conducted during several lengthy stays in Cuba, University of ... (Read More)
 
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Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain
Jimmy Burns.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802717962.  Daedalus Item Code: 31917
 
With the declaration of war in 1939, a dashing young publisher named Tom Burns left his business for the Ministry of Information, the propaganda arm of the British secret services, and found himself ... (Read More)
 
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Brady's Civil War: A Collection of Memorable Civil War Images Photographed by Mathew Brady and His Assistants
Webb Garrison. Alan Exelrod, intro.
Publisher: Lyons Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781599213156.  Daedalus Item Code: 32365
 
When, late in 1862, Mathew Brady posted a notice on the door of his New York City studio reading, "The Dead of Antietam," it proclaimed an exhibition of photographs taken by him and his assistants of ... (Read More)
 
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Ron Chernow.
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Laton McCartney.
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5. Poison: An Illustrated History
Joel Levy.
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6. Give 'Em Hell: The Tumultuous Years of Harry Truman's Presidency, in His Own Words and Voice
Terry Golway.
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7. The Titanic Notebook: The Story of the World's Most Famous Ship
Claire Hancock. Stuart Jackson Carter & Garry Walton, illus.
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8. The Cowboys: How The West Was Won
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9. The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
Howard Blum.
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10. Men at War: A Soldier's-Eye View of the Most Important Battles in History
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