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  • Blood for the Gods Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Classical World
    Julia Wolbrook
    Did the ancient Greeks-celebrated as the founders of Western rational thought-once offer human lives to their gods?For centuries, the idea of human sacrifice in ancient Greece has been dismissed as myth, metaphor, or foreign slander. Blood for the Gods challenges this long-held assumption with a bold, evidence-driven reexamination of one of the most unsettling aspects of Greek ...
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  • Stonewall Made Lee The Truth Behind Robert E. Lee’s Victories and His Failure at Gettysburg
    Julia Wolbrook
    Robert E. Lee is one of the most iconic-and mythologized-figures in American history. Celebrated in Southern memory as the embodiment of honor, courage, and leadership, Lee has long been the centerpiece of the 'Lost Cause' narrative. Yet behind the legend lies a complex truth: Lee’s greatest victories were not achieved in isolation.In Stonewall Made Lee, historian [Your Name] d...
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    14,42 €

  • Sacred Rituals Human Sacrifice in Maya, Aztec, and Inca Societies
    Julia Wolbrook
    What compelled some of the world’s most sophisticated civilizations to offer human lives to their gods?In Sacred Rituals, Julia Wolbrook delivers a meticulously researched and intellectually compelling exploration of human sacrifice in the Maya, Aztec, and Inca worlds. Moving beyond sensationalism, this book situates ritual killing within the broader spiritual, political, and c...
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  • The Weak Redcoats Why the British Army Failed at Lexington and Concord
    Julia Wolbrook
    Why did the most powerful army in the world falter against a scattered colonial militia on April 19, 1775? In The Weak Redcoats, this gripping and revisionist study dismantles the myth of British military invincibility. It reveals how structural weakness-not colonial luck-shaped the outcome at Lexington and Concord.Drawing on battlefield reports, officers’ correspondence, logis...
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    13,34 €

  • Omaha Beach
    Julia Wolbrook
    June 6, 1944.Along a narrow stretch of sand on the coast of Normandy, the fate of the Allied invasion of Europe hung by a thread. Omaha Beach-meant to be one landing zone among many-became the most lethal battlefield of D-Day and one of the defining crucibles of the Second World War.Omaha Beach: Triumph and Tragedy on D-Day offers a vivid, unflinching account of America’s blood...
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    15,51 €

  • Jonestown Was Inevitable Cold War Paranoia, Cult Fear, and the Making of America’s Most Infamous Massacre
    Julia Wolbrook
    In Jonestown Was Inevitable, a gripping and unsettling reexamination of one of America’s most infamous tragedies, this book challenges everything we think we know about the Jonestown Massacre. Rather than treating it as the result of blind obedience or collective madness, this deeply researched narrative reveals how Cold War paranoia, fear of social outsiders, and media-fueled ...
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    15,51 €

  • A Special Relationship Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Making of Modern Canada-U.S. Relations
    Julia Wolbrook
    How did two unlikely leaders reshape the destiny of North America and forge one of the world’s most enduring international partnerships?In A Special Relationship, acclaimed statesman William Lyon Mackenzie King and charismatic American president Franklin D. Roosevelt emerge as the central architects of modern Canada-United States relations. Against the backdrop of economic coll...
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    15,38 €

  • Black Wall Street in Flames The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Cultural Trauma of African Americans
    Julia Wolbrook
    What happens when prosperity becomes a threat-and history is set on fire?In Black Wall Street in Flames, the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is examined not only as one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in American history, but as a defining moment of collective cultural trauma. Its echoes still shape the African American experience today.Once a symbol of Black excell...
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    14,55 €