David Grann On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they...

Albert Londres In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Europe and finally...

Mark Roseman On January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, a conference of Nazi officers produced a paper known as the "Wannsee Protocol,"...

Martin BellMartin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist. From Vietnam to Bosnia to Iraq, he has witnessed first-hand the dramatic changes in how...

Gain expert insight into the naval battles during the Napoleonic Wars with "The War for All the Oceans" by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins. Discover strategic tactics used by Nelson...

Author: Chaim Herzog This is the authoritative account of the Israeli army’s performance in the bitter Yom Kippur War of 1973. The origins of the war amid the turbulent history...

Geoggrey C Ward and Ken BurnsThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who...

Zecharia Sitchin When gods and mortals fought side by sideThousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny - terrible conflicts...

Antonia Fraser Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was...

Hamutal Bar-Yosef A vast amount of research was invested in this book, and readers will enjoy the detailed reconstructions. Bar-Yosef provides rich, colorful descriptions of life in Prussia in the...

Richard W Bulliet In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human...

Joan DidionFirst published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses...