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Drawing on oral testimony, previously unseen personal papers, and newly released archival information, this book provides a comprehensive account of British and American intelligence on the Soviet nuclear weapons program from 1945-1958. The book charts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028721Author Carol BerkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would...

Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups. Historian Athan Theoharis charges...

A Washington Post Book of the YearWinner of the Merle Curti AwardWinner of the Jacques Barzun PrizeWinner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award"A masterful study of privacy."-Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books"Masterful (and timely)...[A] marathon trek...

In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth "whites-only" and sent 1,100 citizens running for their...

Uncover the remarkable story of the American Revolution! Who were the Redcoats, and what was the Boston Tea Party? Explore key events like the British surrender at Yorktown, and the writing of the Declaration of Independence.Written in association with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807616123Author Chadwick HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Braziller BooksPublisher Braziller BooksWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140150803Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America -- literature and drama; film and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467150347Author Timothy WareFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939237453Author Neil GoeppingerFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Neil W. GoeppingerPublisher Neil W. GoeppingerWeight(grams) 912gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Before that tragic day on November 22, 1963, the Kennedy years were filled with hope and promise. As the White House gardener put it, they were also filled with children and dogs. The Dogs of Camelot illuminates the inside story of the Kennedys' lifelong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593792612Author Heather Cox RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Usually experienced only during ancient dances or rituals, this escape from time is the theme of this book, which traces the life on a single spot in New...

Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom...

This book collects the only known group of letters from one of over an estimated 400 women who served in the Civil War under assumed male names and identities.About the AuthorLauren Cook Burgess is Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations at...

Explosive account of the intrigue, hit men, and Cuban exiles in the CIA's war to destroy Fidel Castro Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA's decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel Castro, the bearded bogeyman who haunted America's Cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788422454Author Donald G ShometteFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 535g

In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a programme dedicated to creating prosperous, socially-just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Despite spending $20 billion in pursuit of the...

Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombings with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers' years leading up to the act of...

At least 10,000 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. More than 5,000 of these deaths were suffered by Union officers and enlisted men. Author Greg Coco mined the sources to pull out eyewitness accounts to...

Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic...

The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618340767Author James S HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with...

This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American history about which much has been written - the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. It presents in...

For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world. These fifteen years are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for SIBA Book Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780307887283Author Christopher DickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House...

When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian...

The Battle of Bull Run took place in July 1861 and although when all was said and done, its impact was relatively limited, it did have a far-reaching effect on the American Civil War itself. The psychological impact of the battle on the combatants...

From Naked Juice (R) to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a "free and natural" lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class...

The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and...

"A fascinating and indispensable book."-Christopher Knight, Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2018-The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is widely considered the greatest American...

Jeffrey Hunt's Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863 exposes for Civil War readers what has been hiding in plain sight for 150 years: The...

Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay A unique document by an extraordinary man about one of the giants of American history, this edition features a new foreword by Henry Steele Commager, who sheds new light on the Lincoln-Hay...

In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy...

During the Reagan years, Americans witnessed an extraordinary array of changes, from major technological advances to sweeping revisions of the tax code to the deregulation of major industries and the advent of the culture wars. America emerged from the...

On The Bloodstained Field presents nearly 300 compelling human-interest stories from the Battle of Gettysburg that are so fascinating that it is nearly impossible to stop reading. Did you know that a dog was probably one of the first casualties in the...

The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical...