Summer Reads

Cover of Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan, featuring a historical black-and-white photo capturing five formally dressed men walking together.

$25.50

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Cover of Innocent Heroes by Sigmund Brouwer featuring a close-up of a black and white dog with floppy ears against a blurred brown background overlaid with white text.

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Innocent Heroes: Stories of Animals in the First World War

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Cover of The Great and Holy War by Philip Jenkins, featuring soldiers silhouetted against a red sky, with the subtitle How World War I Became a Religious Crusade.

$16.00

The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade

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$20.00

The Alice Network

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Switchboard Soldiers

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Cover of the book Lifesavers and Body Snatchers by Tim Cook, featuring a black-and-white photo of soldiers assisting each other in a muddy battlefield overlaid with white and red text.

$19.50

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

$19.00

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

The book cover for Mythmakers shows an illustrated purple, blue, and yellow forest and two men caring books and papers talking to one another while walking underneath the trees. At the forefront, a wizard and a lion peek out around trees.

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The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (a Graphic Novel)

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Cover of The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. The design features a black background with glowing green text, accompanied by an image of women at the top.

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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The Peach Pit Parade

$37.00

The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I

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Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson. Set against the British seaside, it features two women on motorcycles observing a plane soaring above, capturing the adventurous spirit of historical fiction during the World War I era.

$18.00

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club: A Novel

Book cover for the Role of Birds in World War One by Nicholas Milton featuring a yellow bird on a branch in front of a blue battle landscape.

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The Role of Birds in World War One: How Ornithology Helped to Win the Great War

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In the Absence of Men: A Novel

Book cover for 'Death on the Lusitania' by R.L. Graham. The design features a dark blue background with red and white accents, including ornate border details and two small red keys at the bottom corners. At the top, a white ocean liner sails under a full moon, casting a red glow on the water. The title appears in large white and red letters, with the tagline 'There's a killer on board...' beneath it. Endorsements from various authors are placed around the title.

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Death on the Lusitania (Patrick Gallagher #1)

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The cover for Black Soldiers, White Laws is a black and white image of a trial being held in what looks to be a courtroom. A large group of black soldiers sit together behind a barrier, many of them with their arms crossed and heads turned as if listening to what it happening on the other side of the room out of view. White men, some in uniform and others in suits, are seen sitting in the main area of the room.

$30.00

Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston

$27.50

Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell

The cover for the American Nurse in Paris is a young woman overlooking a war hospital set up in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

$16.50

An American Nurse in Paris: Novels of the Great War

Cover of Muse of Fire by Michael Korda. Features soldier in uniform helping each other on a battlefield overlaid with white and brown or black text.

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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

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Book cover titled Tracing Your First World War Ancestors: Second Edition by Simon Fowler. Features a soldier photo, medals, and a memorial.

$27.00

Tracing Your First World War Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians

Book cover titled The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, featuring a portrait of Tsar Nicholas II in a military uniform, capturing the essence of Imperial Russia and the Romanov dynasty.

$35.00

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Book cover for Burn, Bomb, Destroy by Michael Digby. Features an illustration of a statue on a red background, with text about German secret agents and their sabotage campaign in North America during World War I, 1914-1917.

$25.00

Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America, 1914–1917

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The Cover for Our Desperate Hour shows a soldier in uniform facing away from the viewer looking out on a blurred battlefield. He stands by his vintage WWI era motorcycle.

$17.50

Our Desperate Hour: Novels of the Great War

The cover for The Great War Ace is a portrait of Sir Brian Baker in a WWI uniform. Background images show multiple WWI airplanes and a cloud filled sky.

$40.00

The Great War Ace, The Red Baron and Beyond: The Life and Achievements of Air Marshal Sir Brian Baker KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC

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