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The Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium is a history of the First Crusade and the first years of Latin rule in the kingdom of Jerusalem (1095–1106) written before 1120, probably in Flanders.The anonymous author acknowledged that he had based his work on that of...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-25
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In the fall of 1908 some attention was aroused in the press by a story to the effect that hunters had encountered in the state of California a tribe of Indians who were still in the Stone Age. The idea of a "wild" tribe in a thickly settled region like California was so...
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LMP–History and Civilization Coll
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2026-03-25
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Explores the evolving historiography of the Second World War across cultures and continents A Companion to the Second World War, Second Edition is a foundational reference for understanding how scholars have interpreted, debated, and revised the history of the Second...
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Wiley
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2026-03-24
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Europäische Nachbarschaft ist jenseits des Politischen kaum denkbar. Dies gilt auch für Polen und Deutschland einschließlich ihrer Literaturen und literarischen Felder. Im vorliegenden Sammelband wird daher u. a. der Frage nachgegangen, ob die Verleihung eines...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-03-24
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An estimated 200,000 Latvian soldiers—ten percent of the total prewar population of Latvia— served on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Since the Republic of Latvia had been occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, then occupied by Nazi Germany in...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-19
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*Shortlisted for Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize* A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.A finely honed journey across time and place, affecting and powerful, and deeply relevant...
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Penguin
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2026-03-19
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Walk your way through Jewish history, life, and culture—from Abraham to today Jewish History For Dummies provides unbiased, factual history of Jewish life, culture, and history. You’ll take a look at the roots of Jewish history, beginning in 2000 B.C.E. with Abraham...
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For Dummies
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2026-03-18
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In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a large governing...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-18
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Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking book follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen United States and the Atlantic world.
In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-17
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Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.
For centuries, opium has been a source of both...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-16
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My previous book in the Exile Studies series, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature, explored the collective intergenerational trauma of the past. This companion volume, Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2026-03-16
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Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father’s journey through the Holocaust and find his family’s genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and...
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University of Calgary Press
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2026-06-15
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''The Battle of the Huertgen Forest'' by Charles Brown MacDonald is a highly acclaimed, harrowing historical account of one of World War II's most tragic and costly campaigns. It examines the disastrous autumn 1944 U.S. push against entrenched German positions....
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-06-13
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''The Great Sea War: the Story of Naval Action in World War II'' is a highly acclaimed, comprehensive one-volume history edited by naval historian E. B. Potter and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. It provides detailed, authenticated accounts of naval engagements across...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-06-13
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''Children of the A-Bomb: Testament of the Boys and Girls of Hiroshima'' by Arata Osada is a historic 1951 compilation of first-person testimonies edited by prominent Japanese education scholar Arata Osada. The book serves as a foundational piece of peace education,...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-06-13
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This book explores the life of the survivors and how they managed their ordeals. It is good to note that the likes of irenefogel saw death with their own eyes. Imagine existing in an era where over 60 million people are being displaced, with another 17 million that just...
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Rob Satterfield
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2026-06-10
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The Charles Oman Signature Classics is a distinguished four-volume illustrated collection of historical masterpieces by Charles Oman, one of the foremost historians of medieval Europe and military history. FeaturingThe Dark Ages, A History of the Art of War in the...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-06-04
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by E. A. Wallis Budge is a remarkable introduction to the literary, religious, and intellectual heritage of ancient Egypt. Drawing upon hieroglyphic inscriptions, papyri, funerary texts, hymns, legends, and moral teachings, Budge...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-06-04
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The definitive narrative history of American slavery — Jamestown 1619 to Appomattox 1865 — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, and the complete story of the institution that built a republic and nearly destroyed it.
In August 1619, a Dutch warship arrived...
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Chiify
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2026-06-03
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The complete narrative history of the Spanish-American War — Theodore Roosevelt, Dewey at Manila Bay, the Rough Riders, the Filipino betrayal, and the untold story of America's imperial moment, 1898.
On February 15, 1898, the battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor...
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Chiify
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2026-06-03
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