SImon Cox This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the...

Robert Beckman The author analyzes the great financial crashes of modern times, ranging from the South Sea Bubble to Wall Street, in an attempt to prove that recent crises in...

Barry Coward Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse...

Antonia Fraser In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from...

Leslie Maitland Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees,...

Shalom EilatiCrossing the River is a personal memoir—and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania’s occupation—first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians—it is...

Robert T Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted...

George Rtley Scott FPhS, FZS, FRAI

William Mallinson In the troubled island of Cyprus, the national interests and rivalries of Greece and Turkey still collide, the population remains divided between the Greek and Turkish communities and...

Stephen E Ambrose On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first...

Antony Beevor "Glorious, horrifying... D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."--TimeRenowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and...

Jason K Stearns “The best account [of the conflict in the Congo] so far….The task facing anyone who tries to tell this whole story is formidable, but Stearns by and...