The Civil War (American Heritage Book...
Bruce CattonInfinitely readable and absorbing, Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the best-selling, most widely read general histories of the war available in a single volume. Newly introduced by the critically acclaimed Civil War historian J...
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Deb...
James ChaceHistorian James Chace sees the election of 1912 as a decisive moment in American history, one that rivalled in importance the debates at the time of the founding fathers. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugen...
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Cent...
Michael Farquhar"Michael Farquhar doesn't write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin's smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it."—Gene Weingarten,...
Blockaded Family: Life in So. Alabama...
Parthenia Antoinette HagueLife in Southern Alabama During The Civil War. A Blockaded Family recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South. This book is memorable for its glimpse of wartime domest...
The Mental Floss History of the Unite...
Erik SassSmarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the Founding Fathers and more American than Betty Crocker cradling an apple pie Do you still think of Honest Abe as a heroic defender of liberty? That the late '60s were a groovy t...
Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History...
Michael NewtonA collective history of feral children who were brought up in the wilderness, raised by animals, or locked up in solitary confinement examines the stories of Peter the Wild Boy, Victor of Aveyron, two children brought up by wolves in ...
The Worst President-The Story of Jame...
Garry BoulardJust 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: "This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter is doomed to acknowledge an ancestry from him" Nearly a...
What Caused the Civil War?: Reflectio...
Edward L. AyersAn author of the Valley of the Shadow Project presents a series of essays on the American Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South to consider such issues as slavery, secession, and poverty as contributing factors to ...
Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes: ...
Alvin M. JosephyAt the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in...
Unsolved Mysteries of American Histor...
Paul AronA lively tour through our past and an ingenious primer in the art of historical detection.' —Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their World Did Leif Ericsson beat Columbus to America? What happened to the Lost Colony ...
Royal Discord: The Family of George I...
Veronica Baker-SmithThe family of George II has been ill-served by history and by most historians. He was a German, the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great Britain, but by the end of his long reign the House of Hanover was firmly esta...
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medic...
Nancy GoldstoneThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.Set in m...
Five Years, Four Fronts: A German Off...
Georg GrossjohannA former German officer provides a provocative, firsthand account of the hardships and horrors of the front lines during World War II, chronicling his wartime experiences, from Poland in 1939 and the Maginot Line in France, to his bru...
Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Con...
Ian MortimerIn this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the th...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Ame...
James AgeeIn the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary ...
Secret Germany: Stauffenberg and the ...
Michael BaigentThe story of the hero behind the attempt to kill Hitler, the subject of Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, set for June 2008 release.By July of 1944, the Third Reich's days were numbered. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a general staff in...
Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Ar...
Catherine BaileyFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England's wealthiest families Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of...
Confronting the Classics: Traditions,...
Mary BeardA National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is "the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work" (Observer). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writ...
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and ...
Scott W. BergA Kirkus Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After si...
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Gl...
Charles BowdenCiudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Moga...
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Econ...
Jurgen BrauerCastles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in...
Princes at War: The Bitter Battle Ins...
Deborah CadburyIn 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era-the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons:a stammer...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Roy...
Deborah CadburyA captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thir...
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who ...
Jared CohenThis New York Times bestselling "deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks—and deja vu" (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without b...
Dumb but Lucky!: Confessions of a P-5...
Richard K. CurtisAn action-packed memoir chronicles the combat adventures of a maverick young Air Corps pilot who, despite nearly being court-martialed for his high-flying antics, became his unit's only survivor of missions escorting bombers over heav...
Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secr...
Christopher DickeyBetween the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation. When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of Briti...
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story o...
Gregory A. FreemanNow 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 the Second World War.In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than ...
Civil War Curiosities: Strange Storie...
Webb B. GarrisonA collection of fascinating anecdotes and colorful stories organized by topics and not by chronology, Civil War Curiosities offers a rare glimpse into unusual and often bizarre persons, attitudes, and events that enhance our understan...
Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses--including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,0...
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won ...
Adrian GoldsworthyAdrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire—including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan— and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by...