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Now in paperback-the 'amazing'( James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London duri...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • ...

Now in paperback, and following her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, here is a ...

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley C...

From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--t...

'Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.'-New York Times Book ReviewErik Larson has been widely acclaimed as ...

the Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History — The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Cultur...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Devil In The White City And Dead Wake Delivers A Fresh And Compelling Portrait Of Winston Churchill And Lond...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 10 BEST BOOKS * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * 2011 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The New ...

Mark Logue And Peter Conradi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Europe Great BritainEngland

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

V. 1. The Origins To 1795 -- V. 2. 1795 To The Present. By Norman Davies. Includes Index. Bibliography: V. 2, P. 680-684.Categories: History EuropePoland

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and po...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • A New York Times bestseller“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply ...

Here is a wide-ranging, unique, and personal view of the evolution of modern Ireland over three-and-a-half centuries. Lively biographical footnotes add a fu...

This 35th anniversary edition of a best-selling book recounts Corrie tenBoom's horrific experiences in Hitler's concentration camps, explains how she surv...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In...

this Book Considers How Religious Beliefs And Cultic Rituals Were Given Expression In The World Of The Greek Citizen. Categories: Science & MathArchae...

Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns hi...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-West...

Perhaps the most influential monarch ever to rule England, Queen Elizabeth I is at once the best- and least-known of queens. She was a very private person,...

This Book, A Chronicle Of The Early Sixteenth Century Creation Of The Waldseemuller Map Offers Insight Into How Monks, Classicists, Merchants, And Other Con...

Told Through The Eyes Of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, And Great Britain's King George Iii, Killing England Chronicles The Path To...

a Stunning Look At World War Ii From The Other Side... from The Turret Of A German Tank, Colonel Hans Von Luck Commanded Rommel's 7th And Then 21st Panzer...

Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby ...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle—a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfareTh...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning bio...

Vogue's "special royal salute" to Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor.\"Vogue, like the royal family, has been through many evolutions of its own, a...

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be entirely beyond the limits of human foot speed. And in all of sport it was the elu...

Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeChanges in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plan...

Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany,...

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuou...

Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought t...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

Offers a historical perspective on the Vatican, shows some of its treasures, and describes daily life in the VaticanCategories: Religion & Spirituality ...

The latest from the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends -- the untold story of one of WWII's most important secret military u...

The Creation Of The Oxford English Dictionary Began In 1857, Took Seventy Years To Complete, Drew From Tens Of Thousands Of Brilliant Minds, And Organized T...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. ...

Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leaving—opene...

This is the first edition for sixty years of the earliest surviving autobiography in English, the unique account (dated 1436-8) of the extraordinary life, ...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba...

Twenty-five Years After Her Passing, Audrey Hepburn Remains The Most Beloved Of All Hollywood Stars, Known As Much For Her Role As Unicef Ambassador As For ...

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers h...