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1.	Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House $15.60
2.	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century $19.80
3.	The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War $20.99
4.	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism $16.80
5.	The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) $20.99

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Fall New Releases: History

From household names to sleepers, take a look at the biggest books of the biggest book season of the year in our Fall New Releases store. See our top picks for fall in History, including:

The War by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
The Coldest Winter: America and the Vietnam War by David Halberstam
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World by Jay Winik
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

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The End of the World as We Know It...

Looking for an extremely irreverent reference book for your home library? Our Dumb World The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth should serve as the ultimate resource for fake world history and geography, perfect for today's fake-news loving consumer.

New from Ken Burns: The War

History buffs, Ken Burns fans, and anyone whose life has been touched by war will be awed by Burns's and Geoffrey Ward's new book, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, the stunning companion to his PBS series airing in September 2007. Watch a special message from Ken Burns to Amazon customers, and see excerpts from the book in The War Boutique.

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The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea ~Steve LeVine Our Price: $18.45 List Price: $27.95 You Save: $9.50 (34%) 19 used & new from $13.76	MiG Master, 2/E: The Story of the F-8 Crusader ~Barrett Tillman Our Price: $13.57 List Price: $19.95 You Save: $6.38 (32%) 21 used & new from $11.95	The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist ~Reviel Netz... Our Price: $18.15 List Price: $27.50 You Save: $9.35 (34%) 2 used & new from $18.14
Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 ~Stuart I. Rochester... Our Price: $23.07 List Price: $34.95 You Save: $11.88 (34%) 23 used & new from $18.46	So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State ~Forrest Church Our Price: $18.48 List Price: $28.00 You Save: $9.52 (34%) 37 used & new from $14.00	Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong ~James W. Loewen Our Price: $10.88 List Price: $16.00 You Save: $5.12 (32%) 31 used & new from $7.75

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Where Historical Documents Come to Life

Many of the documents featured in our Historical Reproductions Store have not been available for purchase in hundreds of years. Thanks to the digital preservation efforts of leading university presses and libraries, now you can discover and buy newly printed copies of interesting and important documents on diverse subjects from the eulogy at President Abraham Lincoln's funeral to turn-of-the-century American culture.

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Portrait of an Army

Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson returns this fall with The Day of Battle, an intense chronicle of the U.S. Army's formidable rise to leadership among Allied forces in the often overlooked (though, as Atkinson reveals, deeply significant) Mediterranean campaign of the Second World War.

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Top Sellers

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1.	Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 $14.99
2.	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time $8.99
3.	Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House $15.60
4.	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century $19.80
5.	The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War $20.99

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