Barbara W Tuchman In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war....

Diane Ackerman In war-torn Warsaw, a zookeeper and his wife refuse to surrender...Now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife is based...

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Yaffa Eliach Traces the history of the Jewish community in Eisiskes, Lithuania, describes its social life and customs, and puts a human face on one of the many villages destroyed...

Paul Cartledge In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the...

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Patrick K O'Donnell At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich’s Final Solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who were naturalized American citizens, having...

Lawrence Wright A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign...

Suketu MehtaA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy...

Tadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides...

James Andrew Miller and Tom ShalesIn the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact...

Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...