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The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting Number 6: A Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald

The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting Number 6: A...

Author: Joe Biel ,  Joe Biel
ISBN: 9781934620830
Format: Paperback
$11.99

At long last it's the new issue of Microcosm's continuing CIA zine series! For the tenth anniversary issue, we get...  Read More >>

JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy

JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John...

Author: L Fletcher Prouty ,  Oliver Stone
ISBN: 9781616082918
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The true story of the man who inspired Oliver Stone's JFK now with a new foreword by Jesse Ventura.  Read More >>

Winston S. Churchill, Volume 6: The Finest Hour, 1939-1941 Volume 6

Winston S. Churchill, Volume 6: The Finest Hour, 1939-1941...

Author: Fellow Martin Gilbert (Merton College Oxford)
ISBN: 9780916308292
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In this concluding volume of Gilbert's renowned series, readers see Churchill at the pinnacle of wartime power as...  Read More >>

House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann...

Author: Evelyn Juers
ISBN: 9780374173166
Format: Hardback
$79.20

In 1933 the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding...  Read More >>

From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life

From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's...

Author: Benjamin H. Kohl ,  Linda C. Farthing
ISBN: 9780292723962
Format: Hardback
$145.20

An extraordinary portrait of Bolivia's turbulent rise from military rule during the last half century, told through...  Read More >>

Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid

Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian...

Author: Richard Heinzl
ISBN: 9780470739532
Format: Electronic book text
$32.95

A celebrated doctor's coming of age story in Cambodia It was while in Uganda as a young and idealistic physician...  Read More >>

Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia

Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War...

Author: Brian D. McKnight
ISBN: 9780807137697
Format: Hardback
$92.27

In the fall of 1865, the US Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three...  Read More >>

Keep True: A Life in Politics

Keep True: A Life in Politics

Author: Howard Pawley ,  Paul Moist
ISBN: 9780887557248
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Howard Pawley, former Premier of Manitoba (1981-88), led the province during one of the most turbulent periods in...  Read More >>

Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster

Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The...

Author: James Grant
ISBN: 9781416544937
Format: Hardback
$73.92

The volatile last decades of the 19th century are captured through the careerof reform Speaker of the House Thomas...  Read More >>

Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the...

Author: Candy Moulton
ISBN: 9780870623899
Format: Hardback
$92.27

On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota...  Read More >>

The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail

The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail

Author: David Kahn
ISBN: 9780300176964
Format: Paperback
$97.68

"One of the most colorful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave...  Read More >>

Extreme Risk

Extreme Risk

Author: Chris Hunter
ISBN: 9780552157599
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution

Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution

Author: Martin B. Green
ISBN: 9781604190120
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Life of Big Foot Wallace

Life of Big Foot Wallace

Author: A J Sowell ,  Ralph White
ISBN: 9781258014100
Format: Hardback
$74.79

The Only Reliable History Of The Famous Frontiersman. Many Errors Of History Corrected. Facts Gathered By The Author...  Read More >>

Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader

Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon...

Author: Avel Louise Gordly ,  Patricia A Schecter
ISBN: 9780870716041
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Recounts the personal and professional journey of Avel Gordly, the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon...  Read More >>

The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple

The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding...

Author: Ralph Ketcham
ISBN: 9780813931043
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Restored to its original splendour, Montpelier is now an Anerican shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of...  Read More >>

Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom

Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads...

Author: Jerry Boykin ,  Lynn Vincent
ISBN: 9780446583220
Format: Paperback
$44.85

General Jerry Boykin is one of the original members of the Delta Force and has spent the majority of his career...  Read More >>

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775 (LOA #213)

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775 (LOA #213)...

Author: John Adams ,  Gordon S. Wood
ISBN: 9781598530896
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"."".. includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel...  Read More >>

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783 (LOA #214)

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783 (LOA #214)...

Author: John Adams ,  Gordon S. Wood
ISBN: 9781598530902
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This second of two volumes gathering the essential writings of one of the towering figures of the American Revolution...  Read More >>

An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country

An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country...

Author: Susan Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780806533049
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The powerful, candid and eloquent memoir of Susan Rosenberg and her life as a political prisoner in her own country...  Read More >>

Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle

Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle

Author: William T. Hagan
ISBN: 9780806141954
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"""Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry--an opinionated and profane but energetic...  Read More >>

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport...

Author: Into The Arms Of Strangers-Sto ,  Judi Dench
ISBN: 9780790753096
Format: DVD
$52.75

THE LIFE-AFFIRMING TALE OF 10,000 CHILDREN SAVED FROM HITLER'S GRASP AND PLACED WITH FOSTER PARENTS AND HOSTELS...  Read More >>

A Unionist in East Tennessee: Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861

A Unionist in East Tennessee: Captain William K. Byrd...

Author: Marvin Byrd
ISBN: 9781609492458
Format: Paperback
$58.05

During the Civil War, Tennessee was perhaps the most conflicted state in the Confederacy. Allegiance to either side...  Read More >>

Battleground Iraq

Battleground Iraq

Author: Todd S Brown ,  Donald Corren
ISBN: 9781617076497
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$118.77

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four...

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9781461059738
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years as seamstress...  Read More >>

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