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  • The Famine Ships

    The Irish Exodus to America

    de Edward Laxton ...
    A "fascinating" account of the experiences of the Irish emigrants who fled a catastrophic crop failure and built new lives across the Atlantic ( Library Journal).Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million people—the potato famine emigrants—sailed from Ireland to America. The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Famine Ships

    de Edward Laxton ...
    ___________________'A splendid book' - Irish TimesBetween 1846 and 1851, the Great Famine claimed more than a million Irish lives. The Famine Ships tells the story of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them William Ford, father of Henry Ford, and twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Between the Stepping Stones

    Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helens story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, whose greatest gift to Helen was a garden, a magical moonlit dance of crystal and gold and silver faeries. The stories of three girls verging on the precipice of womanhood intertwine. Each girl is a victim to brutality, and each was somehow dragged down ... Leer más

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  • Vietnam

    An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

    de Max Hastings ...
    An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on ... Leer más

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  • The Abyss

    Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

    de Max Hastings ...
    Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most ... Leer más

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  • A Continent Erupts

    Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955

    **A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022"Marvelous.…Spector’s gripping book.…[helps] us to understand why the legacy of these conflicts is still with us today." —Sheila Miyoshi Jager, New York Times Book Review**The end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and ... Leer más

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  • How the Universe Got Its Spots

    Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

    de Janna Levin ...
    Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to the astounding findings of contemporary theoretical physics and makes tangible the contours of ... Leer más

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  • The Puritans

    A Transatlantic History

    de David D. Hall ...
    A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides a multifaceted ... Leer más

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  • FDR At War

    The Mantle of Command, Commander in Chief, and War and Peace

    The definitive biography of FDR's leadership during WWII, presented here in a single volume—"splendid . . . the memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" ( New York Times Book Review).This groundbreaking, three-volume study of President Roosevelt's role as Commander in Chief tells the story of World War II from his perspective. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the ... Leer más

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  • JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this “masterful” (The Economist) biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.“An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

    With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle).Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when ... Leer más

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  • The Age of Eisenhower

    America and the World in the 1950s

    A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through ... Leer más

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