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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Florida

Learn about World War II's key moments though compelling photographs, facts, and anecdotes.
Covers more than 80 crucial events of the war, such as Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Nazi death camps, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Includes color photographs of important figures, scenes from the battlefields, examples of war propaganda, and many more riveting visual representations to guide you through one of the most important times in history.
144 pages

World War II A Photographic History Easton Press

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Jon Krakauer

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Traces the controversial story of NFL player and army soldier Pat Tillman, describing the military's efforts to hide the truth about his death by friendly fire, in an account that draws on Tillman's journals and letters as well as interviews with family members and fellow soldiers. Reprint. A best-selling book.

Where Men Win Glory

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Hannah’s War 

Philip Caputo

Kevin Powers

Texas

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 with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home--physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.
A Rumor of War is more than one soldier's story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America's indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. In the years since then, it has become not only a basic text on the Vietnam War but also a renowned classic in the literature of wars throughout history and, as Caputo explains, of "the things men do in war and the things war does to men."

"A singular and marvelous work." --The New York Times

A Rumor of War

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Katy Simpson Smith

New York

A Novel

Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.

Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father's stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife Helen, John has remained land-bound for their daughter, but when Tab contracts yellow fever, he turns to the sea once more. Desperate to save his daughter, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the salt air will heal her.

Years before, Helen herself was raised by a widowed father. Asa, the devout owner of a small plantation, gives his daughter a young slave named Moll for her tenth birthday. Left largely on their own, Helen and Moll develop a close but uneasy companionship. Helen gradually takes over the running of the plantation as the girls grow up, but when she meets John, the pirate turned Continental soldier, she flouts convention and her father's wishes by falling in love. Moll, meanwhile, is forced into marriage with a stranger. Her only solace is her son, Davy, whom she will protect with a passion that defies the bounds of slavery.

In this elegant, evocative, and haunting debut, Katy Simpson Smith captures the singular love between parent and child, the devastation of love lost, and the lonely paths we travel in the name of renewal.

The Story of Land and Sea

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Very good condition other than small tears to DJ (pictured). Note this is the Book Club Edition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A novel 

Fields of Fire

Khaled Hosseini

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Carol Reardon

Tom Vossler

Iowa

Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People

In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to participate in a tour of this hallowed ground. Ideal for carrying on trips through the park as well as for the armchair historian, this book includes comprehensive maps and deft descriptions of the action that situate visitors in time and place. Crisp narratives introduce key figures and events, and eye-opening vignettes help readers more fully comprehend the import of what happened and why. A wide variety of contemporary and postwar source materials offer colorful stories and present interesting interpretations that have shaped--or reshaped--our understanding of Gettysburg today.



Each stop addresses the following:

What happened here?

Who fought here?

Who commanded here?

Who fell here?

Who lived here?

How did participants remember this event?



A Field Guide to Gettysburg

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Bob Woodward

Plan of Attack

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Some dings to outside but clean pages 
No highlights no underlines no writing


Mississippi

Social Studies

An Enduring Debate

The Spread of Nuclear Weapons (third edition)

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Rick Atkinson

A class of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist’s eye for detail, Rick Atkinson illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved - from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American History, and Atkinson’s masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams. 


Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The American Journey of West Point's Class Of 1966

The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson. "A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the Liberation Trilogy) illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved—from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history, and Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams

The Long Gray Line

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Signed and inscribed by the author. In the inscription he attests that this is the first copy ever sold. This book is almost impossible to find, even without the signature

Pennsylvania

SIGNED Liberian Civil War: A Graphic Account (First Copy Ever Sold)

This vintage book is VERY old (141 years old) and has some binding issues. The binding is failing but the pages are still readable.

Vintage 1883 Bullet and Shell

Frank P. Slaughter

Michigan

"Two generations removed from Will Castor, the haunted veteran of the Civil War's Battle of Chickamauga, the Castors have become a prominent family in the mining town of Ishpeming, Michigan. When a conflict even greater than the War Between the States breaks out in Europe, two of the Castor boys answer the call: John, a shy, studious young man whom the other Marines call "Teach," and Matt, a charming rake who's popular with his fellow soldiers as well as with the farm girls of France.... "As in the previous novel..., the real war here is internal and lasts long after shots have ceased to ring out; it's fought in the minds of those lucky (or unlucky) enough to survive. With this story, however, Slaughter is able to expand beyond the effects of war on one person to explore their repercussions for an entire family-a clan that holds sacred its responsibility to protect its members from harm. "A sharp, immersive family drama played out against the ravages of war." - Kirkus Reviews

*Signed* Brotherhood of Iron

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Storm and Fury

William Samelson

Evil is most of the time the sum total of planned actions, which are routine and dull. All it takes is the blind obedience to a narcissistic leader whose unforgiving hatred knows no rational bounds. Hence, evil succeeds when good people stand by in stupor and apathy; the result is devastating to the progress of civilization inflicting immense losses in human life and goods. All it takes is an original model, which ignites the energy of "copy cats" to perpetuate the tragic history of genocide

Evil is most of the time the sum total of planned actions, which are routine and dull. All it takes is the blind obedience to a narcissistic leader whose unforgiving hatred knows no rational bounds. Hence, evil succeeds when good people stand by in stupor and apathy; the result is devastating to the progress of civilization inflicting immense losses in human life and goods. All it takes is an original model, which ignites the energy of "copy cats" to perpetuate the tragic history of genocide.

World Class Assassins & Their Victims

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Published 1919, 1st Edition - *Poor* condition, binding split open in front, detached page; inscribed by previous owner on title page

Between You and Me

Bryan Chalker

1987 Redcliffe first edition. Printed in Bristol. Very little wear on the cover - just a bit of sticker wear from the first price sticker. No annotations or highlights. Collectible and historical 

New Mexico

Cook-Ups of World War Two (1987 First Edition)

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Annika Mombauer

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

History

Diplomatic and Military Documents

Annika Mombauer's essential source reader translates, cross-references and annotates a vast range of international diplomatic and military documents on the origins of the First World War. It collects together newly discovered or not previously available in English, drawn from a broad range of sources and countries into a single, indispensable text for students and scholars alike. The volume includes a detailed scholarly introduction which analyses the most controversial issues in the debate on the origins of the War and provides a comprehensive overview of the history of document collections on the war's origins. The documents cover the period 1911–14, with particular emphasis on the July Crisis and immediate outbreak of war. Thoroughly cross-referenced and annotated, these fascinating sources are presented with authoritative commentary, enabling readers to make connections between the documents to illuminate how the decisions for war were taken, and why. This will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying or teaching the origins of the First World War.

The Origins of the First World War

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Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Oregon

Illustrated History of the Civil War

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Julia Kelly

From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special place. Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens’ past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith has carved out a niche for herself as a garden designer to industrialists, solicitors, and bankers looking to show off their wealth with sumptuous country houses. When she is hired to design the gardens of Highbury House, she is determined to make them a triumph, but the gardens—and the people she meets—promise to change her life forever. 1944: When land girl Beth Pedley arrives at a farm on the outskirts of the village of Highbury, all she wants is to find a place she can call home. Cook Stella Adderton, on the other hand, is desperate to leave Highbury House to pursue her own dreams. And widow Diana Symonds, the mistress of the grand house, is anxiously trying to cling to her pre-war life now that her home has been requisitioned and transformed into a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. But when war threatens Highbury House’s treasured gardens, these three very different women are drawn together by a secret that will last for decades. In this sweeping novel reminiscent of Kate Morton’s The Lake House and Kristin Harmel’s The Room on Rue Amélie, Julia Kelly explores the unexpected connections that cross time and the special places that bring people together forever.

The Last Garden in England

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Ohio

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Kristin Hannah

In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

The Nightingale

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Virginia

Artemis Fowl misc series

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