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The New York Public Library, in looking back on the greatest books of the past century, called Churchill's history "monumental" and said that the author "d...

Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewr...

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...

Recalls The Nobel Laureate's War Years.Categories: HistoryMilitary

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

A new abridged edition of a highly acclaimed biography of Edward VIII, who left England as the Duke of Windsor less than eleven months after succeeding his ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocativ...

A Comprehensive History Of Rome Covers The City's Evolution From The Roman Empire Through The Early Years Of Christianity To The Renaissance And The Modern ...

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...

A Simon & Schuster book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

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...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFor eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her a...

“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us...

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...

F is for Fashion, Darling is an alphabet book parody for parents who know their Prada from their Pampers.Categories: Children's Books Activities, Crafts &am...

From Roman Times To The Present Day This Is The Story Of Black British HistoryCategories: Teen & Young Adult Education & Reference HistoryModern ...

Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth cent...

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...

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...

#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. ...

Overview: Once Upon A Time An Indian Writer Named Amitav Ghosh Set Out To Find An Indian Slave, Name Unknown, Who Some Seven Hundred Years Before Had Travel...

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

in 1386, A Few Days After Christmas, A Huge Crowd Gathers At A Parisian Monastery To Witness What Will Become The Nation's Final "trial By Combat"—a Court...

Pfaff Discusses Writers, Artists, Intellectual Soldiers, And Religious Revolutionaries (including : T.e. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'annunzio -- Ernst Jünger --...

On the heels of the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek's beloved and nostal...

The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of t...

The fascinating story of the Irish in Boston unfolds in this engagingly written history. Full of heroism and romance, politics and brawls, it tells the stor...

For Frederick The Great, The Prescription For Warfare Was Simple: Kurz Und Vives (short And Lively) - Wars That Relied Upon Swift, Powerful, And Decisive Mi...

When News Of The Budding Romance Between A Beloved English Prince And An American Actress Broke, It Captured The World's Attention And Sparked An Internatio...

Robert Ward.Categories: History EuropePortugal & Spain

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 ...

Bess Hardwick, Born Into The Most Brutal And Turbulent Period Of England's History, The Fifth Of Six Daughters Of An Impoverished Derbyshire Nobleman, Did N...

Highlights from the horrid series that gets you hooked on history! Age 8+. Dimensions: 19 x 13.2 x 1.3 cm. Titles:The Awesome Egyptians; The Groovy Greeks; ...

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

describes Christmas Traditions In Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, And Norway. publishers Weekly the On My Own Holidays Series Offers Explanatory ...

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...

Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of sc...

The official companion to the Emmy-winning Netflix drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and starring Claire Foy and John Lithgow, The Crown b...

Pope Pius XII has often been criticized for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. In his defense, some have alleged t...

From the world's most distinguished medievalist comes a lively and vivid account of the lords and ladies, saints and scholars, kings and peasants who shaped...

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...

Pam Clark ... [et Al.]. Since 1914, The Famous Round Tower Of Windsor Castle Has Been The Iconic Home Of The Royal Archives--an Extraordinary Collection Of ...

This is a highly illustrated and full-color collection of the greatest propaganda images ever. From Napoleonic war paintings via anti-Hitler posters to brut...

Compelling account of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union The Soviets expected to crush Finnish forces in mere days, but the Finns broke the...

On December 25, 1991, at 7:35 p.m., soldiers lowered the red Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin and raised the Russian tri-color in its place. The moment ...

The Author And The Characters From The Pooh Books Engage In Dialogue Elucidating The Taoist Principle Of Te, The Way Of The Small.Categories: Humor & En...

in This Original And Meticulous Work Of Historical Ethnography, Janice Boddy Deftly Offers An Acute Analysis Of Imperial Ambition And The Gendering Of Pol...

"Full of fascinating characters, deeds of heroic daring . . . [a] powerful book."--New York TimesOne of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans...