Oliver HilmesThis short book takes us through the sixteen days in August 1936 when the Olympic Games were staged in Berlin. With a chapter dedicated to each day, it describes...

Antony Beevor Recounts, in narrowing detail, and with formidable skill, the brutal death throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army. September 13, 2007 by Penguin...

Ruta Sepetys It's 1941 and fifteen-year-old artist Lina Vilkas is on Stalin's extermination list. Deported to a prison camp in Siberia, Lina fights for her life, fearless, risking everything to...

Mark UrbanBig Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle against the IRAIn this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the...

Louis deBernieresn his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom...

Jonathan SteinbergThis is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890...

Mark BowdenOn October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of...

Hadley Freeman After October 7, many on the left justified, dismissed or championed acts and beliefs they otherwise view as unconscionable. Why?‘October 7 was horrific. Then came October 8, and...

Alan Furst  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre–World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.” —Janet Maslin, The New York TimesIn the...

Julius FastThis classic book introduces kinetics, the science of non-verbal communication, which is used to analyze the common gestures we use and observe every day, gestures which reveal our deepest...

Ernesto Che Guevara

Conn Iggulden January 1, 2009 by Harper