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Abundance of Valor: Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944–45
Will Irwin.
Publisher: Ballantine.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780345501769.  Daedalus Item Code: 21504
 
The World War II operation known as Market Garden—made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far—was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time, a high-risk Allied invasion of ... (Read More)
 
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Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution
David A. Clary.
Publisher: Bantam.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780553383454.  Daedalus Item Code: 31258
 
They were unlikely comrades-in-arms: one was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag American army; the other was a teenaged French aristocrat who had wealth and sought ... (Read More)
 
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The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War
Frank J. Merli. David M. Fahey, ed.
Publisher: Indiana.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780253344731.  Daedalus Item Code: 31938
 
History professor Frank Merli died in 2000 while working on a sequel to his popular 1970 book Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861–1865, leaving many manuscripts related to Great ... (Read More)
 
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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375760419.  Daedalus Item Code: 31259
 
"I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences," Tom Brokaw noted with gratitude and satisfaction, following the publication of The Greatest ... (Read More)
 
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Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden's Concordance Unwrote the Bible
Julia Keay.
Publisher: Overlook.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781585678013.  Daedalus Item Code: 22279
 
Cruden's Concordance to the Bible, a combination index, dictionary, and analysis of the Bible, was a monumental achievement; at 2.5 million words, it is four times the length of the Bible ... (Read More)
 
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
Susan Jacoby.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300121339.  Daedalus Item Code: 12757
 
Countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Whittaker Chambers' shocking accusation in 1948 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Alger Hiss, a former rising star ... (Read More)
 
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America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
Fergus M. Bordewich.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781439124604.  Daedalus Item Code: 30622
 
The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the 1849 gold rush, the ... (Read More)
 
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
David O. Stewart.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781439157183.  Daedalus Item Code: 22203
 
In this vivid biography of an enigmatic founding father, David Stewart depicts Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring, perhaps deluded figure who shook the nascent United States. In 1805 ... (Read More)
 
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The American Future: A History
Simon Schama.
Publisher: Ecco.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780060539238.  Daedalus Item Code: 14049
 
In this perspective on the 2008 presidential campaign and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning historian Simon Schama looks at the ... (Read More)
 
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Jon Meacham.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780812976663.  Daedalus Item Code: 31260
 
The American gospel—literally, the good news about America—is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it, posits historian and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham. From John ... (Read More)
 
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American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
Jane Fletcher Geniesse.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780385519267.  Daedalus Item Code: 00869
 
"Anna Øglende Spafford's life was a classic 19th-century epic, related perceptively by [Jane] Geniesse [the author of Passionate Nomad]. Born in Norway in 1842, she came to the United States ... (Read More)
 
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Ancient World Commanders: From the Trojan War to the Fall of Rome
Angus Konstam.
Publisher: Compendium.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781906347291.  Daedalus Item Code: 23762
 
Sumptuously illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of period art, up to 16 x 8 inches, this petite coffee table book is a visual encyclopedia of more than 160 great leaders in the ... (Read More)
 
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