Top 10 Battles in History

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  • Battles that Changed History

    • ASIN: 146547384X
    • ISBN: 146547384X
    • Manufacturer: DK

    This illustrated guide to history's most famous battles explores military history from ancient battles to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.Featuring stunning illustrations and in-depth analysis, this military history book uses maps, paintings, and photographs to reveal the stories behind more than 90 of th... [Read More]

  • On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

    • ASIN: 0385541155
    • ISBN: 0385541155
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

    "Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington PostFrom the New York Times bestselli... [Read More]

  • Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story

    • ASIN: 0425224368
    • ISBN: 0425224368
    • Brand: Guarnere, William/ Heffron, Edward/ Post, Robyn/ Hanks, Tom (FRW)
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    Tom Hanks introduces the “remarkable” (Publishers Weekly) true story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO® miniseries Band of Brothers.William “Wild Bill” Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army—members of an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division called Easy Co... [Read More]

  • Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Europe

    • ASIN: 0997749326
    • ISBN: 0997749326
    • Manufacturer: Wheelhouse Publishing

    "This book should be in school libraries everywhere." —Top 500 Amazon ReviewerDoes your son play video games for hours but dreads reading? Does he think history is just a bunch of boring old facts? What if you could give him the excitement of screen time and at the same time spark his love of reading and history?Now you can, with these exciting ... [Read More]

  • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

    • ASIN: 0399589813
    • ISBN: 0399589813
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current clima... [Read More]

  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)

    • ASIN: 1250183863
    • ISBN: 9781250183866
    • Brand: St. Martin's Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Now with an excerpt from the authors' new... [Read More]

  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (new covers w/poster) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

    • ASIN: 1484707230
    • ISBN: 1484707230
    • Brand: Disney-Hyperion
    • Manufacturer: Disney-Hyperion

    All five books in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, in paperback, have been collected in a boxed set fit for demigods. Now with glorious new cover art and packaged with a special poster, this value-priced set includes the best-selling The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and... [Read More]

  • A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

    • UPC: 884836574146
    • ASIN: 0425255735
    • ISBN: 0425255735
    • Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. Dec... [Read More]

  • The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations

    • ASIN: 1426217013
    • ISBN: 1426217013
    • Brand: National Geographic Society
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

    From top secret spy missions to recently declassified WWII documents, this richly illustrated account of the covert espionage operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and into the undercover war effort. National Geographic’s landmark book includes recently released never-before-seen photographs, coded messages, classified... [Read More]

  • In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Series)

    • ASIN: 0525426760
    • ISBN: 0525426760
    • Manufacturer: Viking

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York T... [Read More]

  • World War II: The Definitive Visual History from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb

    • UPC: 790778036027
    • ASIN: 1465436022
    • ISBN: 1465436022
    • Brand: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
    • Manufacturer: DK

    World War II: The Definitive Visual History is a comprehensive, authoritative, yet accessible guide to the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of World War II. Perhaps the most complex, frightening, and destructive event in global history, the Second World War saw the heights of human courage and the depth of human degradation. World War ... [Read More]

  • The Things They Carried

    • UPC: 046442706414
    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • ISBN: 0544309766
    • Brand: Tim O Brien
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley... [Read More]

  • Grant

    • ASIN: B06W2J89PV
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The #1 New York Times bestseller.New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.   Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and... [Read More]

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    • ASIN: 0735224897
    • ISBN: 0735224897
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    A finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018The New York Times bestseller!Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak ... [Read More]

  • If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

    • ASIN: 0804100039
    • ISBN: 0804100039
    • Brand: Wilson, George
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bu... [Read More]

  • Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire)

    • ASIN: 152479628X
    • ISBN: 152479628X
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones. Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on... [Read More]

  • Churchill: Walking with Destiny

    • ASIN: 1101980990
    • ISBN: 1101980990
    • Manufacturer: Viking

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had a... [Read More]

  • Outlander

    • ASIN: 0440212561
    • ISBN: 0440212561
    • Manufacturer: Dell

  • House to House: A Soldier's Memoir

    • ASIN: 1416546979
    • ISBN: 9781416546979
    • Brand: Free Press
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

    THE CLASSIC SOLDIER’S MEMOIR FROM MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT STAFF SERGEANT DAVID BELLAVIA “A rare and gripping account of frontline combat.”—LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty “They used to say that the real war will never get in the books. Here it does, stunningly.” —Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco: The Americ... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0140268863
    • ISBN: 9780140268867
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

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