The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Tr...
Jonathan LyonsFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough...
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Ol...
Jo MarchantIn Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable ...
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivo...
James M. McPhersonThe Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terro...
Collision Course: The Classic Story o...
Alvin MoscowThe definitive New York Times–bestselling account: “One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since A Night to Remember” (The Detroit News). One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in t...
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Me...
Viet Thanh NguyenFinalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review"The Year in Reading" SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time ...
They Dared Return: The True Story of ...
Patrick K. O'DonnellAt the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behin...
The Edge of the World: A Cultural His...
Michael Pye*A New York Times Notable Book*An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea.Saints and spies, pirat...
The Day the Earth Caved In: An Americ...
Joan QuigleyThe Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation's worst mine fire, beginning on Valentine's Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother's backyard in Cen...
Based on the future President's diary from the Spanish-American War, this bestselling 1899 memoir abounds in scenes of patriotic valor and pointed observations on McKinley's War Department. Colonel Roosevelt presents a spirited chroni...
Turn (Previously Published as Washing...
Alexander RoseNow a new original series on AMC Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes...
Presidents: Every Question Answered
Carter SmithThe highest office of our country has been a challenging one to occupy-from the days of a newly founded nation to the global power seat it has become. Presidents: Every Question Answered reviews our leaders' time in office and how the...
World War One: A Short History
Norman StoneThe First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors’ empires were fatally damaged. Wo...
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind...
Dominic StreatfeildBehind the front lines of every war in the world, prisoners are forced to sit for interrogation: manipulated, coerced, and sometimes tortured--often without ever being touched. Brainwash is a history of the methods intended to destroy...
The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring...
Wiley SwordOriginally published as Embrace an Angry Wind Following the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall...
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conques...
Adrian TinniswoodThe true story that's "bloody good entertainment" (New York Times) about the colorful and legendary pirates of the 17th century. If not for today's news stories about piracy on the high seas, it'd be easy to think of pira...
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that...
Garry WillsThe power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation 'a new birth of freedom' in the space of a...
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickama...
Steven E. WoodworthWhen Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way for advances into central and easter...
The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old Ne...
Greg YoungThe Bowery Boys' official companion to their wildly popular, award-winning podcastIt was 2007. Sitting at a kitchen table and speaking into an old karaoke microphone, Greg Young and Tom Meyers recorded their first podcast. They weren'...
The Real History Behind the Da Vinci ...
Sharan NewmanA medieval historian separates fact from fiction as she takes a close-up look at the real-life history behind Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, shedding new light on the historical truths and myths of the thriller in an encyclopedic refe...
Bizarre History: Strange Happenings, ...
Joe RhatiganThis is history served up high-octane, with all of the fun and none of the boredom. It's not about memorizing lists of dates or names, or remembering which general won what battle. Instead, Bizarre History merrily digs up scandals, st...
The Wild Blue : The Men and Boys Who ...
Stephen E. AmbroseStephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the ci...
Daisy: The Life and Loves of the Coun...
Sushila AnandFrances Evelyn 'Daisy' Maynard was a renowned beauty when at the age of 18 she married Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick. It was the wedding of the year, and what followed was a tempestuous and scandalous lifestyle lived in the...
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers a...
Wendy HoldenThe Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer's Wif...
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches...
Tony HorwitzWhen prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackl...
Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the...
Margaret Wade LabargeAdventure, religion, politics, amusement: they're all here in abundance, in this vivid account of the upper-class men and women who journeyed the world in medieval days. With information culled from personal writings, chroniclers' not...
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Men...
Lucette Matalon LagnadoDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to...
For All the Tea in China: How England...
Sarah Rose"If ever there was a book to read in the company of a nice cuppa, this is it." -The Washington Post In the dramatic story of one of the greatest acts of corporate espionage ever committed, Sarah Rose recounts the fascinating...
English History Made Brief, Irreveren...
Lacey Baldwin SmithHere at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight armchair travellers, tourists or anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so muc...
Facing the Lion (Abridged Edition): M...
Simone ArnoldSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials recruit for the Hitler Youth. Simon...
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of t...
Edwin C. BearssFew historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies abou...