Ann Hughes The causes of the English civil war have provoked fierce controversy amongst historians ever since the seventeenth century. The period is still one which matters to people, one...

Peter Jennings and Todd BrewsterThe Century presents history as it was lived, and as it will be remembered for the next hundred years. Here is a keepsake volume destined to...

Marc Levy A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All...

The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and SurvivalMona Golabek and Lee CohenBased on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the...

Dr Edith Eva EgerA New York Times Bestseller“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and...

Richard J Evans   From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany.In 1900...

Mitchell Bard, PhDDescribes the historical background of the region, looks at its wars and terrorist attacks, and recounts the intervention of Western nations.

Pai Kit FaiIn the bestselling tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha, a riveting saga of early twentieth-century China, where a mother and a daughter fight to realize their destinies in...

Boaz GanorThe expansion and escalation of global terrorism has left populations across the world and decision-makers responsible for contending with it unprepared. This book is the first attempt of its...

Josef Skvorecky The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz...

Bernard LewisIn his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed...

Michael Eisner A knight possessed by demons, an ambitious monk skilled in exorcism, and a bloody Crusade that ends in a terrible siege lie at the heart of Michael Alexander...