Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943Prit Buttar★★★★★4.5(280)“An excellent strategic and operational analysis of this mostly ignored campaign.” ― New York Journal of Books...
All My Patients Kick and Bite: More Favorite Stories from a Vet's PracticeD.V.M. Jeff Wells★★★★★4.5(279)Veterinarian Wells returns with another collection of warm, humorous tales of the animals he treats and the people who...
Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago MobJeff Coen★★★★★4.5(278)A] revealing, shocking book . . . superbly crafted." —Publishers Weekly "A telling look inside the twisted world of...
Angles of Attack: An A-6 Intruder Pilot's WarPeter Hunt★★★★★4.5(276)Peter Hunt was born in New York and spent six years of his childhood in Athens, Greece where he started diving in 1978....
The American WestDee Brown★★★★★4.5(271)Michael Kammen Pulitzer Prize Winner, New York Newsday A galloping, anecdotal narrative of the trans-Mississippi West...
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the CenterRay Monk★★★★★4.5(268)“Impressive. . . . An extraordinary story.” — The New York Times Book Review “Judicious, comprehensive and...
Don't Know Much About the Civil WarKenneth C. Davis★★★★★4.5(266)By the vastly amusing author of Don't Know Much About History and Don't Know Much About Geography, this fresh look at...
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the SacrificePatrick Bishop★★★★★4.5(262)“Patrick Bishop’sxa0well-researched, crisply written and utterly absorbingxa0account of the Dieppe raid tells a...
Painting and Finishing Techniques (Osprey Modelling)Gary Edmundson★★★★★4.5(260)“Typical of Osprey's books for military miniature enthusiasts and wargaming hobbyists, this book offers several full...
History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to FilipinosLuis Francia★★★★★4.5(257)Praise for Luis H. Francia "A new take on the Filipino story" -- Inquirer.net Luis H. Francia was born in the...
Calle Este-Oeste (Spanish Edition)Philippe Sands★★★★★4.5(256)Review «Una conmovedora memoria familiar se entrecruza con la historia de las mentes legales judías que sembraron las...
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern IdentityRobert Beachy★★★★★4.5(253)Winner of the 2015 Randy Shilts Award "Excellent and richly documented. . . . The significance of Beachy's book goes...
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s TragedyPeter H. Wilson★★★★★4.5(244)“In his monumental study of the causes and the consequences of the Thirty Years War, Wilson challenges traditional...
Bloody ForeignersRobert Winder★★★★★4.5(243)Review a topical, formidable and engaging book which will have - and deserves to have - many readers...a breath of...
For Crew and Country: The Inspirational True Story of Bravery and Sacrifice Aboard the USS Samuel B. RobertsJohn F. Wukovits★★★★★4.5(239)“Engaging and lively . . . A valuable addition to our understanding of the events that took place almost 70 years...
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of WarMichael J. Neufeld★★★★★4.5(237)From Publishers Weekly Neufeld, chair of the Space History Division at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum,...
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its SoulClara Bingham★★★★★4.5(236)“In her excellent oral history of the tumultuous events of 1969 and 1970, . . . [Clara Bingham] does a fine job...
The Story of FrenchJulie Barlow★★★★★4.5(235)From Publishers Weekly That major historical moments affect a language's development seems to be self-evident. But in...
The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Image Classics)Saint Augustine★★★★★4.5(234)In plain words--if you can accept them as plain--Christianity is the life and death and resurrection of Christ going on...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)Elinore Pruitt Stewart★★★★★4.5(225)Review Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative. ― The Wall Street Journal
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval BritainMarc Morris★★★★★4.5(221)From the Publisher Beginning in the 11th century, when castles were first introduced to Britain, and ending in the 17th...
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American DemocracyJeff Sharlet★★★★★4.5(219)From Publishers Weekly C Street includes everything a riveting tale about a controversial national movement...
U.S. History For DummiesSteve Wiegand★★★★★4.5(215)From the Back Cover Learn: To appreciate the people, events, and places that shaped our nation To appreciate the...
Robert E. Lee: A BiographyEmory M. Thomas★★★★★4.5(215)From Publishers Weekly Thomas, a distinguished historian of the Civil War (The Confederacy as a Revolutionary...