Arran Lomas From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of...

Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust.These are the true-life accounts of nine...

Edna Fernandes Discover the hidden Jewish history of southwestern India.Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One...

Lt Col Anthony Shaffer On Friday, August 13, 2010, just as St. Martin’s Press was readying its initial shipment of Operation Dark Heart, the Department of Defense expressed concern that...

William Dalrymple   From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the...

Michael S Smith The 1st Marine Division's defensive positions were set up as a horseshoe containing Henderson Field and its Cactus Air Force. October 1, 2000 by Presidio Press

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...

Max Hastings In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the...

Author: David McCullough The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the...

Giles Fraser 'Absorbing , fascinating, arresting' The Observer'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London....

Rebecca Skloot   Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of...

Howard Markel Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon—showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous...