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Best of 2008: History

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Hardcover
November 18, 2008
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$36.00

Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew

Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew

Alex Kershaw

Hardcover
April 28, 2008
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$26.00

Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

Russell Shorto

Hardcover
October 14, 2008
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$26.00

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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington

Jennet Conant

Hardcover
September 09, 2008
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$27.95

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

Simon Winchester

Hardcover
May 06, 2008
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$27.95

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

Hardcover
November 11, 2008
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$35.00

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief

James M. McPherson

Hardcover
October 07, 2008
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$35.00

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

Roger Crowley

Hardcover
July 01, 2008
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$30.00

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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

Tony Horwitz

Hardcover
April 29, 2008
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$27.50

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

Hardcover
January 08, 2008
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$27.95

A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn- the Last Great Battle of the American West

A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn- the Last Great Battle of the American West

James Donovan

Hardcover
March 24, 2008
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$26.99

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The Forever War

The Forever War

Dexter Filkins

Hardcover
September 16, 2008
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$25.00

Tycoon’s War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer

Tycoon’s War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer

Stephen Dando-Collins

Hardcover
August 25, 2008
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$26.00

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

Philip P. Pan

Hardcover
June 17, 2008
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$28.00

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