Vera BrittainFor nearly a decade I have wanted; with a growing sense of urgency; to write something which would show what the whole War and post-war period — roughly; from...

Jason ElliotPart historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years....

Littell HartLiddell Hart's History of the First World War first appeared in 1930 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most cogent accounts of the conflict ever published....

Philippa and Peter WaringTo millions of people around the world the Teddy Bear is far more than a cute soft toy. Bears given to people in childhood often stay with...

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John HerseyOn August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day....

Alicia Appleman-JurmanAlicia Jurman is five-years-old when her story begins. It is 1935 and she is living in the East Polish town of Buczacz. Although brought up in an atmosphere of...

Rick StroudLonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied FranceThe French Resistance began almost as soon as France surrendered to Adolf Hitler’s troops. At...

Susan OrleanA REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK...

Fred DavisWhat do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire...

Mary Louise RobertsIn the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes....

Erik Larson A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely...