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A riveting, lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Helen of Troy. We think the way we do because ...

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed t...

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led t...

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In Out Of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, And Howes Recount For The First Time Their Amazing Tale Of Survival, Friendship, And, Ultimately, Rescue, Tracing ...

The first volume of memoirs by Margaret Thatcher frankly recalls the former British prime minister's dealings with U.S. presidents, the Falkland War, and he...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Qu...

Stan Mcchrystal Served For Thirty-four Years In The Us Army, Rising From A Second Lieutenant In The 82nd Airborne Division To A Four-star General, In Comman...

Describes The Diplomatic Minuets And Military Brinkmanship As Germany Grew To Be A Continental Superpower At The End Of The Nineteenth Century And Became A ...

For years, Churchill warned the British government against the growing Nazi threat. For years he was ignored. Politically isolated in Parliament, sometimes...

On The Eve Of Wwii, The Foreign-controlled Port Of Shanghai Was The Rendezvous For The Twentieth Century's Most Outlandish Adventurers, All Under The Watchf...

The Authors Of This First Full-length Biography Of Maharaja Ranjit Singh In English Make Use Of A Variety Of Eye-witness Accounts, From Reports By Maratha S...

A graceful biography that was a #1 national bestseller, Flint & Feather confirms Charlotte Gray’s position as a master biographer, a writer with a ra...

Mary Jemison (1743–1833) was an American frontierswoman and an adopted Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pe...

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting...both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the powe...

Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743–1810), Russian princess, playwright, author, President of the Academy of Sciences, and founder and Director of the Russ...

'He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is...

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS is a glorious celebration of the Great American Game, and of the city that loves it so. It is a love affair that began in 1874, whe...

On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz--th...

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life o...

Product Description The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of...

"...intriguing and fascinating young adult adventure..." Readers' Favorite '47 DAYS' is a novelette and an excerpt from the award-winning biographical nove...

A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of...

Meticulously Researched By A Senior Private Banker Now Turned Historian, No More Champagne Reveals For The First Time The Full Extent Of The Iconic British ...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive, most comprehensive account of Queen Elizabeth II's legendary reign. Painfu...