History

Sons of the Wind

by XAVIER PIVANO

When Arnaud got an odd letter from a stranger who claimed he was his father, he couldn’t imagine it would lead him so far away. Far away from home, of course, but from himself too, from his inherent human...

A Death in Jerusalem: The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli

by Kati Marton

On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations–appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears...

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

by Robert D. Kaplan

“The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted.” —Sun-Tzu

We live in dangerous...

Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: The War Time Letters of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer

by Donald Klopfer, Bennett Cerf & Robert D. Loomis

Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after...

Brazil on the Move

by John Dos Passos

The Human Tradition in Modern Africa

by Dennis D. Cordell

This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of the continent’s tumultuous history since 1800. They coped with upheavals such as the Atlantic...

An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America--A Brother and Sister Escape to Freedom During World War II

by Deborah Strobin & Ilie Wacs

September 1939 - Nazi Austria turns on their Jews and the family Wacs flees Vienna, saving their lives. Destination: Shanghai; alien to them-different language, people, culture. Had they not escaped, one week...

Tarnished Victory: Finishing Lincoln's War

by William Marvel

A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.

Champagne From Six to Six

by Peter M. Shea

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In mid-19th-century Australia, like its counterparts in California and Chile, there was a focus on the rush for gold. Given the sobriquet "diggers," men arrived in the tens of thousands from all points...

The Triumph of Hate: The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement

by Christopher Vasillopulos

The Triumph of Hate explains the religious, philosophical, sociopolitical, and historical roots of the rise of Hitler and his movement. Beginning with Paul’s rejection of traditional Judaism, the book accounts...

American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865

by George D. Moller

This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes...

Turbulent Taos

by Den Galbraith

Revolutions, native conspiracies and subsequent insurrections, filthy mountain men sleeping on the dirt and wrestling with grizzlies, radical priests, belligerent American soldiers, betrayal, violence, early...

The City Different and the Palace: The Palace of the Governors: Its Role in Santa Fe History; Including Jesse Nusbaum's Restoration Journals

by Rosemary Nusbaum

The year was 1909, and a youthful Jesse Nusbaum had resigned his teaching position at the Normal School at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and had ridden his "...four-horse-power, twin-cylinder, chain-belt-driven, two-speed...

Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

by Keith Wrightson

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed...

Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship

by Andrew Wilson

This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus’s complicated road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics since 1991, the nation’s first year of true independence. Andrew...

The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

by Josip Glaurdic

By looking through the prism of the West’s involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the...

The Wounded Giant: America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press

by Michael O'Hanlon

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

by Harry Kessler & Laird Easton

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the...

The Island Whisky Trail

by Neil Wilson

The Hebridean island distilleries and those along the glorious sailing grounds of the West Coast are amongst the most scenic and historically fascinating in the industry. In 1984 Neil Wilson first visited the...

Old The Front Page!: Extended Edition: 2000 Years of Scottish Headlines

by Martin Kielty

What would The Sun or the Daily Record have made of the Romans pulling out of Britain or the tumultuous Battle of Bannockburn? One can only imagine, but Old The Front Page does just that with over 100 pages...