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A dramatic account of the turbulent presidential election of 1940. Against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, the two candidates found themselves on the defensive aga...
Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the f...
The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside ...
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterp...
This heart-lifting book floats widely across the world, and offers a cracking international story of drama, adventure and danger. It follows the pioneer generation of balloon aviators fro...
Mitchell Zuckoff wowed readers with LOST IN SHANGRI-LA, an international publishing sensation about the stranger-than-fiction World War II rescue mission to bring home three crash-survivo...
William J. Bernstein's 'A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World', an 'Economist' and 'Financial Times' Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians...
Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrativ...
Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In th...
In 1900, while excavating on Crete, the charismatic Victorian archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed inscribed clay tablets amid the ruins of a lavish Bronze Age palace. Written by palace s...
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterp...
In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14th, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and ...
On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station, Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at wa...
IN 1501, ENGLAND HAD BEEN RAVAGED FOR DECADES by conspiracy, coups, and violence. Through luck, guile, and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, emerged as ruler--but as...
