History

This book is a fast-moving, dramatic narrative. Catton, a leading historian of the Civil War, vividly describes the armies involved and battles fought. His ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a cou...

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapp...

the Definitive Book On China's Uneasy Transformation Into An Economic And Political Superpower By Two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Reporters. An ...

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.\Born in...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

Review\“Superb….[Continetti] brings an insider’s nuance and a historian’s dispassion to the ambitious task of writing the American right’s biograp...

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory is a groundbreaking scientific work written by Albert Einstein, one of the most renowned physicists of all ti...

This Sequel To The Prize Provides A Narrative Of Global Energy, The Principal Engine Of Geopolitical And Economic Change. The Author, An Energy Authority Co...

Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. ...

An Unprecedented High-level Master Narrative Of America's Intelligence Wars, From The Only Person Ever To Helm Both The Cia And The Nsa, At A Time Of Heinou...

Daniel Ellsberg Began His Career As A U.s. Marine Company Commander, A Pentagon Official, And A Staunch Supporter Of America's Battle Against Communist Expa...

In This Magisterial History Of Lebanon, From The End Of Ottoman Rule To The Hizbullah And Hamas Wars Of Today, David Hirst Charts The Intricate Interplay Be...

Jeffrey Rosen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 245-258) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government United States...

a los Angeles Times And economist Best Book Of The Yearwith A New Prefacethe Grandson Of An Eminent Ayatollah And The Son Of An Iranian Diplomat, Journali...

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer offers an unprecedented look at the culture of excess in the elite community of Palm Beach. Publishers We...

Using In-depth Interviews With Participants And Residents, Watson Brilliantly Captures The Tottering Legacy Of Jim Crow In Mississippi, While Vividly Portra...

First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensi...

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how the...

For years, New York's great Jewish banking families have been aloof, mysterious, clannish and arrogant. Considering themselves an elite One Hundred, the fa...

The shocking true story of a Hamas insider who rejected his violent destiny—and is now risking everything to expose closely guarded secrets and show the wor...

The entry for kvetchn (the verbal form) in Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary reads simply: press, squeeze, pinch; strain...

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Nikita Khrushchev Has Long Remained One Of The Most Enigmatic Leaders Of The Twentieth Century; His Motivation And Decision-making Process Have Puzzled Seas...

Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL and author of the bestselling 100 Deadly Skills, presents an explosive, darkly funny, and often twisted account of being p...

Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union duri...

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Mark Meadows] The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to j...

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The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic. A...

Jefferson's Warning And The Financial Aristocracy -- Other People's Oligarchs -- Wall Street Rising : 1980 -- Greed Is Good : The Takeover -- The Best Deal ...

From The Publisher: The City Of Dubai, One Of The Seven United Arab Emirates, Is Everything The Arab World Isn't: A Freewheeling Capitalist Oasis Where The ...

The Epic Tale Of The Rise To Power Of Russia's Current President--of His Emergence From Shrouded Obscurity And Deprivation To Become One Of The Most Consequ...

Because Secret Service Agents Are Sworn To Secrecy, The American Public Rarely Knows What Presidents, Vice Presidents, Presidential Candidates, And Cabinet ...

Intrepid Voyager, Writer And Comedian Michael Palin Follows The Trail Of Two Expeditions Made By The Royal Navy's Hms Erebus To Opposite Ends Of The Globe, ...

charles A. Lindbergh Is At Once One Of The Century's Best-known And Most Misunderstood Figures. In His Fascinating New Biography, lindbergh, Betselling Aut...

An Immersive, Sweeping Account Of The Rise And Fall Of Iran's Glamorous Pahlavi Dynasty, Written With The Cooperation Of The Late Shah's Widow, Empress Fara...

liddell Hart Considered General Sherman The Dominant Military Genius Of The Civil War; To Prove His Point, He Traced Sherman's Military Campaigns, From The ...

The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, ...

National Bestseller Npr Best Book Of 2017 “not All Superheroes Wear Capes, And Elizebeth Smith Friedman Should Be The Subject Of A Future Wonder Woman Mov...

The third book in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Uhtred wa...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of Wh...

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris ...

Behind Most Major Political Stories There Is An Agenda: To Destroy An Idea Or The People Advancing It. Maybe You Watched Someone On The News Report That Don...

In the capstone work of his career, distinguished military historian Jay Luvaas brings together in one volume the military genius of Napoleon. Unlike Sun ...

The Wholesome Image Of America Propagated By Hollywood In The 1940s, '50s And '60s Is One Of The Most Persistent In Popular Culture: Loving Wives, Smiling C...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’Long before Manc...

from The Bestselling Author Of The Definitive Book On D-day Comes The Definitive Book On The Most Momentous Expedition In American History And One Of The G...

In 1943, Primo Levi, A 25-year-old Chemist And Italian Citizen Of Jewish Race, Was Arrested By Italian Fascists And Deported From His Native Turin To Auschw...