This classic bestseller -- the inspiration for the PBS series -- is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews,...
"As exciting and readable an account as you could wish. " -- The Guardian "Fascinating. " - Bill Bryson The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of...
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans...
As Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH - The "brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful--and...
"A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it. " --Chicago Sunday TribuneSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List...
A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam -- the sword and scimitar -- have clashed...
European and Arab versions of the Crusaders have little common. What the West remembers as an epic effort to reconquer the Holy Land is portrayed here as a brutal, destructive, unprovoked...
COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR - #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER"Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us--as...
Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women. Men dominate history...
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich" (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West--"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy"...
Now in paperback, a literary time machine that takes readers into the sights, smells, and tastes of the fourteenth century--a book that is revolutionary in its concept and startling...
"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples. "--Vancouver SunRarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway...
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776,...
Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself--a devotion to...
"An enthralling story ... A work of history that reads like a novel. " -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured...
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "A dazzling history of Western ideas. " --The Economist "Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic...
The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain's greatest and worst dynasty--"a real-life Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)...
This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights ... into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe...
*NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the Year "Witty and entertaining. "--Sarah Knight "Laugh-out-loud. "--Steve Brusatte AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH...
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians...
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