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  • What Remains

    Searching for the Memory and Lost Grave of John Paul Jones

    by Robert Hornick ...
    John Paul Jones is now considered a Revolutionary War hero and the father of the American Navy, his defiant words “I have not yet begun to fight!” the epitome of courage under fire. It has not always been so. When the Revolutionary War ended, Jones's celebrity vanished. His death in Paris a decade later went unnoticed; he was buried in a foreign grave and forgotten by his fellow Americans.In What ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Citizen of the Shadows

    The Lives and Lies of Lothar Witzke

    by Paul Friedland, Robert N. Hornick ...
    Series series Legacies of War
    “A monumental piece of work . . . an amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to read.”—David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, the bestselling biography of Eleanor RooseveltOne of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belchertown State School

    by Katherine Anderson ...
    Series series Images of America
    In the first decade of the 20th century, the state of Massachusetts established itself as a leader in the education of individuals with disabilities. The third state school for the feebleminded was built in rural Belchertown, in the western part of the state. Opened in 1915, Belchertown State School would eventually encompass almost 900 acres of land and would become the largest employer in town. ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Man Called Intrepid

    The Incredible True Story of the Master Spy Who Helped Win World War II

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    A New York Times Best Seller!The classic real-life story of the superspy whose vast intelligence network helped defeat the Nazis in World War II.A Man Called Intrepid is the account of the world’s first integrated intelligence operation and of its master, William Stephenson. Codenamed INTREPID by Winston Churchill, Stephenson was charged with establishing-and running-a vast, worldwide intelligence ... Read more

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  • The First Salute

    A View of the American Revolution

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between ... Read more

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  • Cracking the Nazi Code

    The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy

    by Jason Bell ...
    The thrilling true story of agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis“Brilliantly researched. . . . A page-turner, one of those books not to be missed.” —Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin’s Daughter“Who knew that a Canadian was the first to warn the world what the Nazis were up to, and to do it years before anyone else was even talking about Nazis? Winthrop Bell is a name you should know, and ... Read more

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  • A World on Fire

    Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

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  • Eisenhower in War and Peace

    by Jean Edward Smith ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Magisterial.”—The New York Times**In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Men Who Lost America

    British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire

    by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire's loss of the American Revolution.The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving ... Read more

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  • Abyss

    The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

    by Max Hastings ...
    A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.Max Hastings ... Read more

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  • The Challenge

    Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence.War polarised America. The ... Read more

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