History

Search the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved t...

The international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters presents a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York. ...

In a remarkably vibrant narrative, Michael St¼rmer blends high politics, social history, portraiture, and an unparalleled command of military and e...

New ed. of: 1815, the roads to Waterloo. 1996. xv, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¢ The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and Lond...

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...

Growing up in BC during the 1920s, young Fraser Miles never knew anything but poverty. There was no social stigma to being poor - most of his neigh...

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...

National Bestseller. New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize. Silver Medalist for th...

#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional me...

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