Gershom Gorenberg A senior columnist for The Jerusalem Report focuses on the religious passions that make fundamentalists of three major religions--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--battle over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem...

Tom Segev With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsNow in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part...

Ahmed Rashid The classic account of America's experience in Afghanistan, explaining the rise of the Taliban in the aftermath of America's failed war on terrorism--essential reading to understand the collapse...

Deborah Cadbury With a cast of characters that wouldn?t be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism...

Samuel M Katz Key problems, conflicts, and decisions in Israel's past and present are analyzed in this fully documented, dramatic history of the turbulent events that have shaped the crisis...

Stephen E Ambrose Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet...

Jennifer Teege An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.In this powerful...

Patrick Radden Keefe The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions:...

Lesley Adkins and Roy A Adkins This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century B.C. to the 5th century A.D., including...

Arthur M Eckstein This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate...

Plutarch “Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.” ―Michael Dirda, Washington...

Jonathan Kaufman "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties." --The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals...