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This week’s books in History

Here are this week’s new releases for the category ‘History’.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip ★ Our Staff Pick ★
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
By Anne Irfan (Author), Muhammad Shehada (Foreword)

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781324105954
Format: Hardcover

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The Explorers Club Presents: Letters from the Edge: Stories of Curiosity, Bravery, and Discovery The Explorers Club Presents: Letters from the Edge: Stories of Curiosity, Bravery, and Discovery
By The Explorers Club (Author), Jeff Wilser (Author)

Publisher: Crown
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9780593240038
Format: Hardcover

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Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance (Routledge Contemporary South Africa) Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance (Routledge Contemporary South Africa)
By Kylie Thomas

Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: October 29, 2025

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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
By Joseph J. Ellis

Publisher: Knopf
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9780593801413
Format: Hardcover

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Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934 (Turner Classic Movies) Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934 (Turner Classic Movies)
By Kim Luperi (Author), Danny Reid (Author)

Publisher: Running Press Adult
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9798894140551
Format: Paperback

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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany―and the Spy Who Betrayed Them The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany―and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
By Jonathan Freedland

Publisher: Harper
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9780063373204
Format: Hardcover

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Craftland: In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades Craftland: In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades
By James Fox

Publisher: Crown
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9780593735077
Format: Hardcover

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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
By Dagomar Degroot

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9780674986503
Format: Hardcover

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October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds
By Asaf Romirowsky (Editor), Donna Robinson Divine (Editor)

Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9798897830756
Format: Hardcover

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The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop: Surgeon, prisoner-of-war, life-saving leader and legend of the Thai-Burma Railway The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop: Surgeon, prisoner-of-war, life-saving leader and legend of the Thai-Burma Railway
By Peter FitzSimons

Publisher: Hachette Australia
Publication date: October 28, 2025

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Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea
By Joel S. Wit

Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: October 28, 2025

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Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
By Hélène Jawhara Piñer (Author), Paul Freedman (Foreword)

Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9798897830954
Format: Paperback

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The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin's Gulags The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin's Gulags
By Peter Buck Feller

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798881807573
Format: Hardcover

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The Roman Empire and World History (Key Themes in Ancient History) The Roman Empire and World History (Key Themes in Ancient History)
By Peter Fibiger Bang

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781009013727
Format: Paperback

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Computer, The: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World Computer, The: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World
By Eric G. Swedin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798216383390
Format: Paperback

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Numbers: A Cultural History Numbers: A Cultural History
By Robert Kiely

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798216384458
Format: Paperback

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Food Cultures of Mexico: Recipes, Customs, and Issues (The Global Kitchen) Food Cultures of Mexico: Recipes, Customs, and Issues (The Global Kitchen)
By R. Hernandez-Rodriguez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798216386698
Format: Paperback

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Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art (Yale Classical Studies, Series Number 40) Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art (Yale Classical Studies, Series Number 40)
By Jas' Elsner (Editor), Milette Gaifman (Editor), Nathaniel B. Jones (Editor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781009505765
Format: Hardcover

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Voices of War: The Russian Experience, Kievan Rus to the Nineteenth Century Voices of War: The Russian Experience, Kievan Rus to the Nineteenth Century
By Donna Orwin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025

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Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance
By Brian James Baer (Editor), Yevgeniy Fiks (Editor)

Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9798897830978
Format: Paperback

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Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
By Philip Dwyer (Author), Barbara Alice Mann (Author) et al.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025

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Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England: Pathways In and Out of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920 (History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment) Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England: Pathways In and Out of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920 (History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment)
By Tahaney Alghrani

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781350407169
Format: Paperback

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Jewish Religious Life in Lithuania in the 18th-20th Centuries (Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 82) Jewish Religious Life in Lithuania in the 18th-20th Centuries (Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 82)
By Marcin Wodzinski (Editor), Shaul Stampfer (Editor), Lara Lempertiene (Editor)

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9789004735408
Format: Hardcover

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Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe: Bishop Wanga’s Private Mine Drainage Works Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe: Bishop Wanga’s Private Mine Drainage Works
By Jeannette Graulau

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: October 25, 2025

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Voices of War: The Russian Experience, The Napoleonic Wars to the Twenty-First Century Voices of War: The Russian Experience, The Napoleonic Wars to the Twenty-First Century
By Donna Tussing Orwin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025

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Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia (History of Science) Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia (History of Science)
By Russell M. Lawson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798216383970
Format: Paperback

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