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The Art of Seduction

by Robert Greene

This bold, instructive guide to power of attraction by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and Mastery can make anyone a master of this devastating and timeless art

This...


D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

by Antony Beevor

The #1 internationally bestselling history of D-Day is now enhanced with rare video footage from the NBC News Archives for the ultimate narrative of the battle for Normandy.

"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is...


The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Seventh Revised and Updated E

by Walter Laqueur

An essential resource?completely revised and updated for the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel

In print for forty years , The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing...


Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

by Geoffrey Wawro

An unprecedented history of American involvement in the Middle East.

In this definitive and revelatory work, noted historian Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new...


A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped OurConstitution: Revised Edition

by Peter Irons

Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's...


American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1)

by Alan Taylor

With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he...


The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

by Iris Chang

In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange...


The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine

by Peter Thonemann & Simon Price

A stunning work of research and imagination that sheds new light of the ancient world.

The western world has long been fascinated by classical Greek and Roman cultures, whose ideas and achievements underpin...


The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

by Richard Overy

"Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."

-The New York Times Book Review

Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising,...


The Secret History of MI6: 1909-1949

by Keith Jeffery

"Jeffery's book is perhaps the most authentic account one will ever read about how intelligence really works." --The Washington Times

Britain 's Special Intelligence Service, commonly called MI6, is not only...


Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

by Ian Kershaw

The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display....


Wood

by Harvey Green

A rich, authoritative look at a material that plays an essential role in human culture

Wood has been a central part of human life throughout the world for thousands of years. In an intoxicating mix of science,...


The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard Evans

There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one...


The Third Reich in Power

by Richard Evans

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war

This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three-volume history of Nazi Germany was...


The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000

by Fred Anderson & Andrew Cayton

Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions...


Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

To most , Robert E. Lee is a beloved tragic figure of a bygone war?remembered by history as stoic and brave but without a true emotional life. Recently, however, historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor uncovered important...


The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

by Antony Beevor

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has...


Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

by R. J. B. Bosworth

With Mussolini ’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s most notorious...


Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace

by Dominic Lieven

The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective.

Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia and the collapse of the French Empire that...


An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409

by David Mattingly

The definitive history of Roman Britain

In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into...