Kate Thompson 'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel HoreLondon, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only...

Erwin RommelForeword to the 1937 EditionThis book describes numerous World War I battles which I experienced as an infantry officer. Remarks are appended to many descriptions in order to extract...

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...

Philip R Davies, George J Brooke, Phillip R Callaway "Details how the scrolls, one of history's great language troves, depict the tumultuous Judean world of 2,000 years ago."― Natural History...

John CarlinBeginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa togetherAfter being released...

David Herbert Donald   The year's most important biography -- of a leader who still speaks to our timesIn the bestselling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert...

Constance Bowman ReidIn 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production...

Page One: Major Events, 1920 1984, As Presented In The New York TimesNew York Times

Lean RabinA major international literary and historic event: the deeply personal remembrances of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by his widow--a singular, intimate portrait of the soldier turned statesman who lived...

Dava SobelThe tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of...

Nicholas Gage "A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of BooksIn 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron...

This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It...