Saul Friedlander A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the...

George Packer NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite...

Richard Ben CramerThe ebbing support for Israel among Western Governments is a major landmark in the history of the last decade and is, without a doubt, an issue that has...

Michael Lewis   The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of...

Stephen E Ambrose On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first...

Stephen E Ambrosen the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied...

Sven Beckert The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is...

Dava Sobel Galileo Galilei (1524-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call "the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether."...

Mark Mazower This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account...

Antony Beevor "Glorious, horrifying... D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."--TimeRenowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and...

Bruce Gordon A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book authored by God for humanity. Its eternal words are transmitted across...

Peter Caddick-Adams March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can...