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  • First Inning Rules
    Jim Stovall
    Nine balls for a walk. Four strikes for an out. Batters calling their own pitches. The umpire in an easy chair.The baseball of the 1870s and 1880s was almost unrecognizable-a chaotic sport where rules varied from city to city, fielders caught balls barehanded, and honor determined close calls. Within three decades, this confusion consolidated into the game we know today.First I...
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    22,55 €

  • Coffee
    Jim Stovall
    I start most mornings with two or three cups of coffee, like millions of people around the world. It’s something I don’t believe I could do without for very long - and until I went looking, I had no idea how little I actually knew about it.I’m no expert. But I found seven things about this ordinary drink that turned out to be genuinely surprising - and I wrote them down. Like: ...
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    14,52 €

  • Coffee
    Jim Stovall
    I start most mornings with two or three cups of coffee, like millions of people around the world. It’s something I don’t believe I could do without for very long - and until I went looking, I had no idea how little I actually knew about it.I’m no expert. But I found seven things about this ordinary drink that turned out to be genuinely surprising - and I wrote them down. Like: ...
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    8,76 €

  • Nathan Tower
    Jim Stovall
    Before he became America’s most resourceful spymaster, Nathan Tower had to learn the hard way.The Nathan Tower novels follow the brilliant operatives who work for Commander Tower in 1880s Washington-Sophie Baumann, Meade Meadows, and others risking their lives in the shadow war that shapes America’s rise as a global power.But how did Nathan Tower develop the skills, judgment, a...
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    15,92 €

  • Constant War
    Jim Stovall
    From the Tennessee River in 1862 to the canals of Amsterdam in 1886, Constant War collects six complete stories set in the world of the Nathan Tower Espionage Series - twenty-four years of intelligence work conducted in the shadows of the Civil War, the Franco-Prussian conflict, the colonial scramble, and the political convulsions of the Gilded Age.These are not summaries of th...
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    22,19 €

  • The Torah
    Jim Stovall
    The Torah is one of the most influential texts in human history. It has shaped three of the world’s great religions, provided the ethical foundation for Western law and human rights, and supplied the narrative archetypes that run through centuries of literature - from Milton to Melville to Toni Morrison.Most people, including many who consider themselves religious, are not enti...
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    12,27 €

  • The Freedman Legacy - Book Club Edition
    Jim Stovall
    Washington, D.C., 1885. On a single night, four prominent Black businessmen are attacked across the city. One is murdered. One barely escapes. And the man who knows why all of them were targeted is already dead - his death ruled a suicide by a police department that asked no further questions.Professor Sylvester Watkins survived the attack on him, and he intends to find out who...
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    11,79 €

  • Saratoga
    Jim Stovall
    Everyone knows Benedict Arnold as a traitor. Fewer people know what he was before that.He was the finest combat soldier in the Continental Army. He was the man who won the most important battles of the most important campaign of the Revolutionary War. He was wounded doing it. He received almost none of the credit for it. And the way that story ended - with a meeting in the dark...
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    13,29 €

  • Forgotten Heroes
    Jim Stovall
    You know Paul Revere’s ride. Do you know about the man who rode the same night in the other direction - the first Black elected official in American history?You know Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. Do you know about the Welsh minister whose pamphlet reached 180,000 readers and helped push America toward independence?You know Valley Forge. Do you know about the Quaker housewi...
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    22,02 €

  • Forgotten Battles
    Jim Stovall
    The Revolution Washington didn’t fight - and couldn’t have won without.Everyone knows Valley Forge. Everyone knows Yorktown. But while Washington held the line in the north, other men were winning the war in places he never set foot.Nathanael Greene won the entire Southern campaign without winning a battle. George Rogers Clark marched 170 men through freezing floodwater to expa...
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    22,32 €

  • War In Ukraine
    Jim Stovall
    Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Most people couldn’t find it on a map before February 2022.Four years later, it is the place where the shape of the twenty-first century is being decided - where a new kind of warfare is being invented under fire, where the credibility of the Western alliance is being tested in real time, where the lessons of the Cold War are being lear...
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    11,00 €

  • American Espionage
    Jim Stovall
    Most Americans think the CIA has always existed. It hasn’t. For most of the nation’s history, the United States had no permanent intelligence service at all - and every time it built one, it tore it down when the war was over.American Espionage: Seven Things You Should Know traces the full arc of American intelligence history, from George Washington’s remarkably sophisticated C...
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    13,35 €

  • Gerrymandering
    Jim Stovall
    The word 'gerrymander' was coined in 1812 from a newspaper cartoon of a district shaped like a salamander, signed by a governor who found the whole thing distasteful and signed it anyway. The practice it names is older than the word - Patrick Henry tried to gerrymander James Madison out of a congressional seat before the Bill of Rights was written. Madison won anyway and went o...
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    8,72 €

  • Raid on the Atlanta
    Jim Stovall
    The war ended in 1865. The fighting never stopped.When Julia Parrish escapes justice for murder, Commander Nathan Tower of the Office of Naval Intelligence sees an opportunity. Her family’s network of Confederate sympathizers is still active-and Tower intends to destroy it from within.His weapon is Lucinda Meadows, an untested operative posing as a wealthy Virginia widow. Her m...
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    22,41 €

  • The Road to Nashville
    Jim Stovall
    February 1862. One lie changed the Civil War.Lieutenant Nathan Tower thought espionage would be simple-gather intelligence, report back, serve his country. Instead, his first reconnaissance mission nearly gets him hanged before he can order his first drink.Enter nineteen-year-old Molly McDade, whose sharp eyes spot Tower as a Union spy the moment he stumbles into her Dover Inn....
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    20,31 €

  • The Nuremberg Trials
    Jim Stovall
    The Nuremberg trials almost didn’t happen. Churchill wanted the Nazi leaders shot. Stalin wanted show trials. The decision to hold genuine legal proceedings - against significant opposition - was one of the most consequential choices of the twentieth century.What happened at Nuremberg between 1945 and 1949 changed the world in ways most people have never fully understood. The t...
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    20,24 €

  • The Lost Dynasty
    Jim Stovall
    They went from last place to dynasty in two years. Then they vanished from history-but their revolution changed sports forever.In 1892, the Baltimore Orioles were the worst team in professional baseball: 46-101, terrible defense, no strategy, empty stands. When manager Ned Hanlon took control, he didn’t just rebuild a team-he revolutionized the entire sport.Within two years, Ha...
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    20,09 €

  • The Frederick Alliance
    Jim Stovall
    Washington D.C., 1884. A murder. A conspiracy. A nation at risk.When prominent German-American newspaper editor Otto Riesler is found shot dead in an alley, Naval Intelligence Commander Nathan Tower suspects more than a simple robbery. His investigation uncovers the Frederick Alliance-a shadowy organization of brewers and businessmen led by Heinrich Schreiber, a dangerous Pruss...
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    20,57 €

  • Friends of Liberty
    Jim Stovall
    In the spring 1775, John Wilkes-Lord Mayor of London-came close to treason.He secretly helped supply French arms to American rebels, an act punishable by death. But Wilkes wasn’t a rogue actor. He was part of a transatlantic network of British radicals, reformers, and opposition politicians who risked everything to support American independence.Their stories have been largely f...
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    19,91 €

  • The Dissenting South
    Jim Stovall
    For more than 150 years, Americans have been told a simple story about the Civil War: that the South rose as one to defend its land, its people, and its way of life.That story is a myth.The Dissenting South: Southern Opposition to the Confederacy Before and During the Civil War reveals a very different reality-a South divided against itself. In every Confederate state, men and ...
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    18,69 €

  • The Unbroken Oath
    Jim Stovall
    The Heroes History Forgot: Southern Officers Who Kept Their Oath to the ConstitutionWhen Virginia seceded in April 1861, Colonel Robert E. Lee faced an agonizing choice: accept command of the Union army or follow his state into rebellion. He chose Virginia and broke his oath to the Constitution. On the same day, another Virginian made a different choice.Winfield Scott, the 74-y...
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    20,24 €

  • Master of Communication
    Jim Stovall
    What if history’s greatest communicator learned his skills the same way you can?For two millennia, we’ve assumed Jesus was born a perfect communicator-impressive to study, impossible to emulate. But a careful reading of the Gospels reveals something startling: he developed his mastery through experience, including painful failures and surprising successes.Master of Communicatio...
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    18,94 €

  • Master of Communication
    Jim Stovall
    What if history’s greatest communicator learned his skills the same way you can?For two millennia, we’ve assumed Jesus was born a perfect communicator-impressive to study, impossible to emulate. But a careful reading of the Gospels reveals something startling: he developed his mastery through experience, including painful failures and surprising successes.Master of Communicatio...
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    22,50 €

  • There Must Come a Change
    Jim Stovall
    Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Pythians.In the summer of 1869, a team of young Black men took the field against white opponents in Philadelphia-the first recorded interracial baseball game in American history. They called themselves the Pythians, and their captain was Octavius Valentine Catto: scholar, athlete, Civil War veteran, and the most dangerous Black man in Phil...
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    24,88 €

  • The Freedman Legacy
    Jim Stovall
    Washington, D.C., 1885. On the night of President Cleveland’s inauguration, four of the city’s most respected Black businessmen are attacked simultaneously. Two die. Two survive - including Professor Sylvester Watkins, who knows the moment it happens that this was no robbery. They knew his name. They were sent for him.Working alongside Commander Nathan Tower and a network of qu...
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    27,99 €

  • Nathan Tower
    Jim Stovall
    Before he became America’s most resourceful spymaster, Nathan Tower had to learn the hard way.The Nathan Tower novels follow the brilliant operatives who work for Commander Tower in 1880s Washington-Sophie Baumann, Meade Meadows, and others risking their lives in the shadow war that shapes America’s rise as a global power.But how did Nathan Tower develop the skills, judgment, a...
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    27,97 €

  • The Krupp Gambit
    Jim Stovall
    Berlin, 1875. In Bismarck’s Germany, everyone is watching everyone else.Lieutenant Nathan Tower thought he understood espionage. His Civil War intelligence work had trapped thousands of Confederate soldiers through clever deception. Now, as naval attaché in Berlin, he’s building his own network of German sources while growing dangerously close to Elena Volkov, a mysterious Russ...
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    21,48 €

  • The Freedman Legacy
    Jim Stovall
    Washington, D.C., 1885. On the night of President Cleveland’s inauguration, four of the city’s most respected Black businessmen are attacked simultaneously. Two die. Two survive - including Professor Sylvester Watkins, who knows the moment it happens that this was no robbery. They knew his name. They were sent for him.Working alongside Commander Nathan Tower and a network of qu...
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    18,63 €

  • The Espionage Revolution
    Jim Stovall
    How did professional espionage begin? Who built the intelligence services that shaped the modern world?In September 1870, the French army marched confidently toward war with Prussia. Six weeks later, an emperor had surrendered, an empire had fallen, and every military observer in Europe had learned a devastating lesson: the nation that knew more had destroyed the nation that kn...
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    18,80 €

  • The Death of the Admiral
    Jim Stovall
    'The Death of the Admiral is a fast, entertaining read, set against a historical backdrop that isn’t used often enough. I really loved the story for its quick pace and for the brilliant selection of the post-Civil War period and location in Washington, where it was possible to move from fancy parlors to taverns and back again as the story unfolded. Bravo.'-Charles Fancher, auth...
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    18,39 €


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