History

A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar

by Ray Wiss

An impassioned insider's view of the Canadian soldier's war in Afghanistan and why it matters. A Line in the Sand takes up where the bestselling FOB Doc left off-this time, with a focus on the Canadian soldier...

Chocolate Wars

by Deborah Cadbury

The extraordinary and dramatic story of the chocolate pioneers-as told by one of the descendants of the Cadbury dynasty-ending with Kraft's recent takeover of the empire. With a cast of characters straight from...

Maine: An Annotated Bibliography

by Christian P. Potholm

Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. It provides readers an overview of over four hundred books written about...

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

by Daniel Branch

On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary...

This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

by Charles Carlton

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom...

The Romans and their World: A Short Introduction

by Brian Campbell

This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was...

Petersburg Fin de Siecle

by Mark D. Steinberg

The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other...

Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

by Robert Gerwarth

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the...

Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists

by Lynne Bowen

Muddling Through

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

by Anna Porter

In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every...

100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines

by Sam Stall

100 Cats Who Made a Difference

If you don’t believe that one cat has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Tibbles (p. 12), the cat who single-handedly wiped out an entire...

Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

by D. Peter MacLeod

Nominated for the J.W. Dafoe Foundation Book Prize, Northern Armageddon presents a new and fascinating interpretation of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, one of the most dramatic and most important events...

Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt

by James Schneider

Reclaiming T. E. Lawrence from hype and legend, James J. Schneider offers a startling reexamination of this leader’s critical role in shaping the modern Middle East. Just how did this obscure British junior...

Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents

by Leonard Benardo & Jennifer Weiss

"The American presidency . . . is merely a way station en route to the blessed condition of being an ex-president."

—John Updike

The presidency is a captivating concept in the hearts and minds of the American...

Our Kind of People

by Lawrence Otis Graham

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin...

Raiders and Rebels

by Frank Sherry

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725 pirates sailed the oceans...

Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam

by John Leppelman

From Dak To to the Tet Offensive, John Leppelman saw it all. In three tours of duty, he made combat jumps, spent months of fruitless effort looking for the enemy, watched as his budies died because of lousy...

Exorcising Hitler

by Frederick Taylor

The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany. The country's...

The Father of Us All

by Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of...

Wreck of the Carl D.

by Michael Schumacher

On the night of November 18, 1958, the Bradley, a 623-foot limestone carrier, was torn apart during one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history, sinking in less than five minutes. Only four members...