World War II: A New History, Paperback

When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History, Paperback - Hugh Ryan

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.***An ALA GLBT Round Table ...

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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Paperback - Niall Ferguson

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

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Reds in the Beds: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood, Paperback - Martin Turnbull

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHollywood history is more than just colorful. It's dripping with red.As World War II ends, a new boogieman emerges: the Red Menace. When...

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Fast Track: U.S. History: Essential Review for Ap, Honors, and Other Advanced Study, Paperback - ***

62,99 RON

CATCH THE EXPRESS TO SUCCESS WITH FAST TRACK: U.S. History Covering the most important material taught in high school American history class, Fast ...

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Time Machine 11: Mission to World War II, Paperback - Susan Nanus

65,99 RON 70,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionEmanuel Ringleblum was a famous freedom fighter and historian during World War II and the Holocaust. He has hidden several incriminating...

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California Tiki: A History of Polynesian Idols, Pineapple Cocktails and Coconut Palm Trees, Paperback - Jason Henderson

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. After World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. After-hours le...

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The Battle Within: POWs in Post-War Australia, Paperback - Christina Twomey

230,99 RON

Description"Headaches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just ...

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An Exquisite Corpse: Death in Surrealist New York, Paperback - Helen A. Harrison

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. When the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Sergeant John J. O'Connell and ...

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Scarlet to Green: A History of Intelligence in the Canadian Army 1903-1963, Paperback - Major S. R. Elliot

251,99 RON 269,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionScarlet to Green details the 'boom and bust' cycles of the Canadian Army's intelligence organization from its inception in 1903 to 1963,...

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Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940-1945, Paperback - Vincent P. O'Hara

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic o...

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Mussolini: A New Life, Paperback - Nicholas Farrell

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on freshly discovered material--including correspondence previously unavailable outside academia--the talented writer and journa...

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Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality, Paperback - Ashley Dreff

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues that the current United Methodist i...

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Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution, Paperback - Robert H. Patton

91,99 RON

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, ...

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Federal Taxation in America: A History, Paperback - W. Elliot Brownlee

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. This authoritative and readable survey is a comprehensive historical overview of federal taxation and fiscal policy in the United States, extending...

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War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II, Paperback - Peter Padfield

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA leading naval and military historian presents the first book to cover the major submarine campaigns in all the WWII theaters. Vividly ...

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Barrington, Paperback - Barrington Preservation Society

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Barrington, Rhode Island, began in the 1640s with a small outpost on the shores of Narragansett Bay. Despite its total dest...

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The Hague-Moscow 1948: Match/Tournament for the World Chess Championship, Paperback - Max Euwe

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOn March 24, 1946, the 4th world chess champion, Alexander Alekhine, passed away. He was the first - and still the only - champion to di...

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Churchill: A Graphic Biography, Paperback - Vincent Delmas

102,00 RON

"A full and wholly fair representation of the most adventurous life in the history of British politics..there is not a word I would have changed in...

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Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret, Paperback - Paul Gannon

73,99 RON

DescriptionIn 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of World War II, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picki...

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201st Squadron: The Aztec Eagles: The History of the Mexican Pilots Who Fought in World War II, Paperback - Gustavo V zquez Lozano

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. In April of 1945, just before the end of the Second World War, Mexico sent an air contingent to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the Allied Forces: ...

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The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War, Paperback - Ben Shephard

103,99 RON

Groundbreaking and remarkably relevant to modern emergency relief efforts, The Long Road Home tells the epic story of how the mammoth refugee probl...

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On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Paperback - Michele Stenehjem Gerber

114,99 RON

DescriptionOn the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufa...

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British Destroyers 1939-45: Wartime-Built Classes, Paperback - Angus Konstam

75,99 RON

As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being...

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Girl in the Blue Coat, Paperback - Monica Hesse

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. The national bestseller and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery"Girl in the Blue Coat is a powerful, compelling coming-of-age st...

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What Is Rock and Roll', Paperback - Jim O'Connor

33,99 RON 36,99 RON

Reducere. Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music. Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country mus...

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I Attacked Pearl Harbor: The True Story of America's POW #1, Paperback - Gary R. Coover

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. The December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the subsequent detention and internment of America citizens of Japanese ancest...

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OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Paperback - Richard Harris Smith

109,99 RON

Description"The best book about America's first modern secret service." --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepare...

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The Betrayal of Anne Frank, Paperback - Rosemary Sullivan

94,99 RON

‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted gener...

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Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement, Paperback - Neil M. Maher

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos, Paperback - Peggy Church

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New ...

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British Battleships 1939-45 (2): Nelson and King George V Classes, Paperback - Angus Konstam

88,99 RON

With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy was at the forefront of her defence with her fleet of battleships as her main striking forc...

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Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, Paperback - Joshua B. Freeman

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. La...

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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II, Paperback - Adam Makos

125,99 RON

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the ...

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Action Presidents: John F. Kennedy!, Paperback - Fred Van Lente

50,99 RON

"A delightful, educational spin on history--and plenty of jokes, " said School Library Journal. "Sheer joy, " praised Booklist in a starred review....

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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War, Paperback - Scott Anderson

113,99 RON

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

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The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific, Paperback - William Craig

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (T...

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The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War, Paperback - Joshua Kurlantzick

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...

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Uncommon Men: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps, Paperback - John C. Chapin

165,99 RON

New insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. Stories include accounts of men in battles from World War II. This...

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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution, Paperback - Susan Stryker

58,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American trans...

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The War Outside, Paperback - Monica Hesse

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNew from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat -- an "important" (New York Times Book Review),...

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Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South, Paperback - Jeannie Whayne

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, Paperback - Vladislav Zubok

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...

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Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice, Paperback - Michel Paradis

123,99 RON

Michel Paradis's Last Mission to Tokyo, a "superb" (The Wall Street Journal) and "engrossing...richly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) ...

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Vatican Ratline: The Vatican, the Nazis and the New World Order, Paperback - Mauri

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. Vatican Ratline is the true story of recovered memories of one survivor of the post World War II ratline interwoven with the history of the players...

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Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano, Paperback - Tim Newark

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twe...

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Trouble the Saints, Paperback - Alaya Dawn Johnson

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. "Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story...in a word: awesome." --N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The F...

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1945, Paperback - Robert Conroy

94,99 RON

America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . . In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A...

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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors, Paperback - R. D. Rosen

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls...

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Marinship, Paperback - Eric J. Torney

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMarinship was a World War II shipyard built by the W.A. Bechtel Company to fulfill an urgent need for cargo ships to support soldiers al...

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Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, Paperback - Kevin Boylan

91,99 RON

DescriptionUsing new material unearthed in French archives, Vietnamese-language publications, and the testimony of veterans, this book, now in pape...

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The Battle of the Bulge: Nazi Germany's Final Attack on the Western Front, Paperback - Michael Burgan

33,00 RON

DescriptionVivid storytelling brings World War II history to life and place readers in the shoes of the people who experienced Germany's last major...

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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, Paperback - Robert O. Self

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert O. SelfAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of t...

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Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Paperback - Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

471,99 RON

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

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The Varsity: A Story of America's Underage Warriors in WW II, Paperback - A. Lee Brown

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. World War II was the most lethal event in human history, which explains why its history has been so often explored in film and literature. THE VARS...

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Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945, Paperback - Margaret Collins Weitz

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCritical acclaim for Sisters in the Resistance "Often moving . . . always fascinating . . . women in the FrenchResistance is a key subje...

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The Holocaust and North Africa, Paperback - Aomar Boum

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through...

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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Paperback - Jason Stanley

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. "A vital read for a nation under Trump."---The Guardian "No single book is as relevant to the present moment."--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen ...

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A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, Paperback - David A. Andelman

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles, founded on retribution against Germany and the Austro-Hu...

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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945, Paperback - James D. Hornfischer

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its s...

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Passionate Publishers: The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency, Paperback - Phoebe Kornfeld

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. Passionate Publishers traces the lives of the German Jewish refugee-émigré founders of the Black Star photo agency-Ernest Mayer, Kurt Safranski, an...

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The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam, Paperback - Mark Clodfelter

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

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Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them, Paperback - James Wright

98,99 RON

DescriptionAt the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers"--those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill...

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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism, Paperback - James L. Peck

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not...

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The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men (Scholastic Focus), Paperback - Robert M. Edsel

68,99 RON

Robert M. Edsel brings the story of his #1 New York Times bestseller for adults The Monuments Men to young readers for the first time in this dynam...

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Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push Into Nazi Germany, Paperback - James M. Fenelon

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. "Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New...

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Bright Lights of Summer, Paperback - Lynn Ames

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. It's March, 1941. Captain America appears in a comic book for the very first time. New York City receives 18.1 inches of snow, its 3rd largest snow...

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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, Paperback - Douglas Waller

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback: "Entertaining history...Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkab...

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The Unlikely Spy, Paperback - Daniel Silva

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva's celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is ``A ROLLER-COASTER WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE that con...

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1941: The Year Germany Lost the War: The Year Germany Lost the War, Paperback - Andrew Nagorski

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski "brings keen psychological insights into the world leaders involved" (Booklist) during 1941, the critical yea...

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Red Inferno: 1945, Paperback - Robert Conroy

94,99 RON

In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this ...

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