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  • Our Vichy Gamble

    by William L. Langer ...
    “Dr. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard, is one of the foremost diplomatic historians of our day. During the war he was head of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services. While serving in this capacity he was invited by Secretary Hull to prepare an account of American policy toward France from May 1940 to the assassination of Darlan on Christmas Eve of 1942 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In and Out of the Ivory Tower: The Autobiography of William L. Langer

    by William L. Langer ...
    “Straightforward, relaxed memoirs by the prodigiously industrious and learned Harvard diplomatic historian and head of the Research and Analysis Section of OSS... Fine reading for anyone interested in academic life and in the connections between scholarship and policy in foreign affairs.” — Gaddis Smith, Foreign Affairs“William L. Langer intended this autobiography as an exemplary tale of how a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mapping Faith

    Theologies of Migration and Community

    by Faiza Omar, Ric Stott, Oliver Joseph, Ibrahim Mogra, Katy Radford, Julie Khovacs, Ivan Khovacs, David Mason, Hassan Rabbani, Katherine Baxter, Yvonne Green, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sithole, Rachel Godfrey, Sofia Rehman, Michael Nausner, Robyn Ashworth-Steen, Sheila Curran, Sayed Razawi, Jacqueline Nicholls, Aviva Dautch, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Harvey Kwiyani, Hajra Williams, Sally Style, Mohamed Omar, Jennifer Langer, Issam Kourbaj, Ruth Padel, Nazneen Ahmed, Amir Darwish ...
    This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response. The contributors comprise writers, poets and artists from the three largest Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and beyond. They show how ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Guns of August

    The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—NewsweekSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • History's People

    Personalities and the Past

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. ... Read more

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  • Triumph and Tragedy

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 6 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    Winston Churchill recounts the end of WWII and its aftermath, in the conclusion of his majestic six-volume history.In Triumph and Tragedy, British prime minister Winston Churchill provides in dramatic detail the endgame of the war and the uneasy meetings between himself, Stalin, and Truman to discuss plans for rebuilding Europe in the aftermath of devastation.Beginning with the invasion of ... Read more

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  • My Train to Freedom

    A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism

    by Ivan A. Backer ...
    The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer.As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A World Undone

    by G. J. Meyer ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this “masterful narrative history” (Booklist) details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world.“Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Proud Tower

    A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of AugustDuring the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Collapse of the Third Republic

    An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

    by William L. Shirer ...
    The National Book Award–winning historian's "vivid and moving" eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler's Third Reich at the outset of WWII ( The New York Times).As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn't just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world's ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Great War

    A New Military History of World War I

    by John Mosier ...
    "A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history" ( Kirkus Reviews )"There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative." —Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of WarBased on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Wester... ... Read more

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  • 1913

    In Search of the World Before the Great War

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features -- last summers in grand aristocratic residences -- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved ... Read more

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