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| By Howard Blum - $27.95 - add to cart | |
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building b...
| By Sarah Lyall - $27.50 - add to cart | |
Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its ...
| By Tom Gjelten - $31.00 - add to cart | |
The commonplace view of Cuba's prerevolutionary business establishment as a corrupt kleptocracy is revised in this intriguing history of the Bacardi rum company and its involvement in Cuban politic...
| By Phil Jenkins - $21.00 - add to cart | |
George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a c...
| By Alexander Rabinowitch - $23.95 - add to cart | |
A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundl...
| By Mark Zuehlke - $36.95 - add to cart | |
Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes...
| By Simon Falconer - $35.00 - add to cart | |
Nothing brings to mind the romance and camaraderie of the army more than the Highland Regiments - arguably the most storied and well respected fighting units in the world. Among these soldiers, one...
| By Pierre Laszlo - $17.95 - add to cart | |
Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you’ll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes—and sometimes even more exo...
| By Virginia Smith - $21.95 - add to cart | |
Smith, a British historian and honorary fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene, traces the origins of our modern standards of cleanliness by reaching back...
| By David Halberstam - $19.25 - add to cart | |
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and f...
| By Chris Wattie - $32.95 - add to cart | |
In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan’s Panjwayi region—a densely packed maze of villages, fields and vineyards west of Kandahar—surprised an unexpectedly lar...
| By Benjamin Carter Hett - $30.95 - add to cart | |
During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple...
| By Martin Van Creveld - $34.00 - add to cart | |
A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world’s shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Now, in The Culture...
| By Michael Elliott - $16.95 - add to cart | |
On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half o...
| By Mark Edmundson - $17.50 - add to cart | |
Expanding on his 2006 New York Times Magazine article, Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge, Edmundson develops his thesis about the lure of powerful, authoritarian leaders. He begins in 1938 Vienna o...
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