History

Ford Madox Ford's novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece. Kat Howard--intelligent, beautifu...

A noted journalist draws on his firsthand impressions and experiences to interweave the lives of thirty men and women, both American and Vietnamese...

"Broad and deeply researched...The Clash is beautifully written, with clear arguments and no irrelevancies." - Gaddis Smith - Boston Globe. "[This]...

This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott's acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historian's d...

From the author of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with The ...

On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huc...

A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world. The publication of The Dra...

SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES ¢ A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All b...

In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the B...

Why would British parents risk sending their children to safety over submarine-infested waters? How would American and Canadian families and public...

Documents the true story of a rogue Soviet submarine's 1968 attempt to provoke a war between the United States and China by firing a missile off th...

Editorial Reviews

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and the forthcoming The Lincoln Highway, a "sharply stylish" (Boston Globe) boo...

"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." --Ron Chernow, in Grant. Faced with c...

Includes bibliographical references and index. Richard Pyves tells the incredible story of his father, Ron Pyves, a teenage tail-gunner who fought ...

It's 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women's College, decides t...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280) and index. xxii, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

For more than a century Buckingham Palace suppressed the facts about the illicit marriage between the twice-widowed Catholic Maria Fitzherbert and ...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-355) and index. The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant co...

Critics have called this 544-page study the tour de force of books on Napoleon's army. Early in his career, the author actually interviewed aging v...

Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus-riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the he...