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George IV: The Rebel Who Would be King
Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by Amanda Foreman.
 
Publisher: Palgrave
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781403983794
Daedalus Item Code: 31989
 
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Egypt: A Short History
Robert L Tignor.
 
Publisher: Princeton
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780691147635
Daedalus Item Code: 31824
 
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942–1945
Randall Hansen.
Publisher: NAL Caliber/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780451227591.  Daedalus Item Code: 31673
 
During World War II, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities and killing more than half a million German citizens, at a cost of 80,000 airmen. ... (Read More)
 
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Custer
Larry McMurtry.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781451626209.  Daedalus Item Code: 32012
 
In this lavishly illustrated volume, the Pulitzer Prize–winning chronicler of the American West profiles one of its most iconic figures. When General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry ... (Read More)
 
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Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
Jeffrey H. Jackson.
Publisher: Palgrave.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780230108042.  Daedalus Item Code: 31995
 
In the winter of 1910, the river that normally brings life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created conditions that soon ... (Read More)
 
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
Andrew Wilson.
Publisher: Atria.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781451671568.  Daedalus Item Code: 32147
 
In a "captivating read that begins where most other Titanic books end" (Library Journal, starred review), the biographer of Patricia Highsmith and Harold Robbins here profiles the ... (Read More)
 
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Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
Suzanne Fagence Cooper.
Publisher: St. Martin's/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780312581732.  Daedalus Item Code: 31664
 
Married at 19 to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of Victorian England, the beautiful and intelligent young socialite Effie Gray found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after ... (Read More)
 
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Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground
Glenn W. LaFantasie.
Publisher: Indiana.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780253350718.  Daedalus Item Code: 31946
 
"Gettysburg is more than a pivotal battlefield for Americans. It has also, in its way, become something of a national Pantheon. For American heroes have trod that ground, both those who fought there, ... (Read More)
 
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Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents
Leonard Benardo & Jennifer Weiss.
Publisher: Morrow/QPB.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781615234509.  Daedalus Item Code: 31692
 
"Eight presidents died in office, leaving 34 whose subsequent careers make up this remarkably revealing history. Journalists [Leonard] Benardo and [Jennifer] Weiss (coauthors of Brooklyn by ... (Read More)
 
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781439176580.  Daedalus Item Code: 32016
 
In the summer of 1916, Smith College graduates and best friends Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood left their Auburn, New York, hometown to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, taking teaching ... (Read More)
 
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Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings
Elizabeth Eger & Lucy Peltz.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300141030.  Daedalus Item Code: 32187
 
During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind, helping to forge new roles ... (Read More)
 
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Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I
Justus D. Doenecke.
Publisher: Kentucky/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780813130026.  Daedalus Item Code: 31676
 
"Long a highly influential author on Americans' entry into the Second World War, [Justus] Doenecke has now produced a superb, beautifully researched, and carefully argued account that should become a ... (Read More)
 
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