History

Grasshopper Pilot

by Julian William Cummings

Julian Cummings began flying lightweight Piper Cubs as a young man and was recruited for the experimental and high-risk aerial reconnaissance unit of the Army's Third Infantry Division. In this memoir he chronicles...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea

by David S. Luft

The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate...

Bitter Waters: Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

by Gennady M. Andreev-Khomiakov & Ann Healy

Bitter Waters is Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov’s eyewitness account of life in the Soviet Union during the tumultuous 1930s, a time when titanic forces were shaping the course of Russian history. Forced collectivization,...

The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother

by Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin & Michael Jones

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory teams with two eminent historians to explore the historical characters in the real-life world behind her Wars of the Roses novels.

PHILIPPA GREGORY and her...

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin

A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine...

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Samuel Johnson Prize 2004

by Anna Funder

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterward the two Germanys reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder’s bestselling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East...

The Mafia and the Allies: Sicily 1943 and the Return of the Mafia

by Ezio Costanzo & George Lawrence

Mafia returns to Sicily with the Allies in 1943. The story told by a Sicilian historian.

The Murder of Maxim Gorky: A Secret Execution

by Arkadi Vaksberg

A fascinating view of the Soviet system at the beginning of the Stalin Terror among intellectuals.

At Napoleon's Side in Russia: The Classic Eyewitness Account

by Armand de Caulaincourt

The most up-to-date edition of the great classic available in paperback.

The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X

by James DiEugenio & Lisa Pease

The archaeology of our secret history.

Jews and Power

by Ruth R. Wisse

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed...

King Tiger vs IS-2: Operation Solstice 1945

by David Higgins & Jim Laurier

This book examines the technology and strategy that defined the outcome of the battles between the King Tiger and the IS-2. The Soviets had been quick to develop tanks that could fight the Tiger on an equal...

Guilt About the Past

by Bernhard Schlink

The six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt both as a uniquely German experience and as a global one. Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches...

Interventions

by Noam Chomsky

Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.

Did Marco Polo Go To China?

by Frances Wood

Contrary to an assumption basic to European and Chinese history—the tales of Marco Polo’s journey to China—Frances Wood argues that he not only never went to China, but probably never ventured past his family...

Latin America In The World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism To Global Capitalism

by Frederick Stirton Weaver

Latin America in the World Economy considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture,...

Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War II

by Yuki Tanaka

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder...

One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies: Battle And Tactics Of Chinese Warfare

by Ralph D. Sawyer

One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies was compiled in the fifteenth century, during the Ming Dynasty, as a handbook of tactics based on Chinese military classics. Translated into English for the first time, this...

Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot

by David P Chandler

In Cambodia’s recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man,...

Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey

by Mikiso Hane

This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane’s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history...