The Sinking of the Titanic
$8.99Tells the story of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Written in graphic-novel format.
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D-Day Training Turned Deadly: The Exercise Tiger Disaster
$36.65On April 27, 1944, the Allies began Exercise Tiger along the east coast of England. This large-scale dress rehearsal was meant to help landing troops prepare for the upcoming D-Day invasion. Instead, the dry run left hundreds of American military personal dead or missing. What went wrong to turn this training exercise into a deadly…
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D-Day Training Turned Deadly: The Exercise Tiger Disaster
$8.99On April 27, 1944, the Allies began Exercise Tiger along the east coast of England. This large-scale dress rehearsal was meant to help landing troops prepare for the upcoming D-Day invasion. Instead, the dry run left hundreds of American military personal dead or missing. What went wrong to turn this training exercise into a deadly…
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Allies Under Siege: The Market Garden Disaster
$36.65On September 17, 1944, Allied forces launched Operation Market Garden. This daring offensive behind enemy lines was intended to bring an early end to the war in Europe. But the mission didn’t go as planned and more than 16,000 Allied soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured. What went wrong to turn this bold plan into…
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Allies Under Siege: The Market Garden Disaster
$8.99On September 17, 1944, Allied forces launched Operation Market Garden. This daring offensive behind enemy lines was intended to bring an early end to the war in Europe. But the mission didn’t go as planned and more than 16,000 Allied soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured. What went wrong to turn this bold plan into…
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Adieu Birkenau: Ginette Kolinka’s Story of Survival
$24.99The graphic memoir of Ginette Kolinka, Holocaust survivor, educator, and “ambassador for the memory” of Auschwitz-Birkenau It is April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Ginette Kolinka arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Her father and little brother are immediately gassed. Ginette is selected as a worker. She survives. It is October 2020. Ninety-five-year-old Ginette takes advantage of a lull…
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Run Home If You Don’t Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943
$25.00In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement, setting the stage for massive turmoil and racial violence. Thirty-four people were killed, most of whom…
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Students for a Democratic Society
$18.00Through brilliant art and they-were-there dialogue, famed graphic novelist Pekar, gifted artist Dumm, and renowned historian Buhle illustrate the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined by those who gathered under the SDS banner.
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Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction
$16.00Amusing, well researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and humor, Tariq Ali and Phil Evans trace his political career, from prison to the pinnacle of revolutionary power to his eventual exile…
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The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 2: 1975-1977
$45.00Funky, Les, and the gang pun their way through Westview High Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. This second volume, which presents strips from 1975, 1976, and 1977, sees the comic strip rounding into the form that…
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Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa
$20.00In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler’s genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps…
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Spy Runner
$21.99Set in 1953 during the Cold War, this noir mystery by Newbery Honoree Yelchin (“Breaking Stalin’s Nose”) follows a 12-year-old boy as he stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. Illustrations.
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Kung-Fu Monthly Archive Series – The Poster Magazines Volume Three
$34.99At the height of the Kung Fu Craze in 1970s Britain, Kung-Fu Monthly was the biggest selling Bruce Lee magazine in the world, even spawning a fan club that would be equally as successful. Kung-Fu Monthly was the longest-running Bruce Lee magazine of its kind anywhere in the world (by frequency and circulation). Such was…
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100°c: South Korea’s 1987 Democracy Movement
$21.99What does it take for ordinary citizens to risk everything to protest living under a repressive government? What takes them beyond the brink, to the “boiling point”? In his graphic novel 100 C, celebrated webtoon and comics artist Choi Kyu-sok sheds a light on these questions by examining the lives of one family caught up…
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The Catholic Treasure Chest Comic Book Treasury of the Mass, Sacraments, and Church Teachings
$33.95This volume of selections from Catholic publisher George Pflaum’s Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact comic book series offers a lively glimpse into mid-20th century Catholic devotional, educational, and liturgical life, focusing on the parts of the (pre-Vatican II) Mass, the Sacraments, and Catholic teaching on a variety of matters, spiritual and theological. Distributed to…
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The Catholic Treasure Chest Comic Book Treasury of Saints – Ordinary Time Comics
$30.95This volume of selections from Catholic publisher George Pflaum’s Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact comic book series collects stories of Catholic saints whose feast days fall outside of specific liturgical seasons (such as Lent and Advent) but instead during the months of Ordinary Time. A number of beloved saints and Holy Days are brought…