Tom Segev The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on diaries, interviews, and thousands...

Yitzhak NakashThe Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that...

Mark Lilla A sense of nostalgia, of not feeling at home in the present, and an attempt to recover a lost philosophical or religious tradition characterize the twentieth-century intellectuals whose...

Robert Latham Generations of readers have found Pepys' diaries one of the best ways to vicariously experience the tumultuous world of seventeenth century London, the time of Restoration, the Plague,...

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi TerritoryRoxane Van IperenThe unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II:...

Marcus Rediker Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime...

Hugh Thomas After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions,...

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme InequalityBhaskar SunkaraFrom one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why...

Tracy KidderComputers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed...

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of LondonOn Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia...

Zecharia Sitchin The groundbreaking, bestselling series—millions of copies sold worldwide! A classic of ancient human history—and one of the inspirations behind the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens —Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles...

Ralph Melnick As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know...