Robert KursonShadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIIn the fall of 1991, in the frigid...

Asher CailingoldThis is the story of an orthodox Jewish girl, born in the era of the flapper and the Charleston, in 1920s London, who travelled to Jerusalem to teach in...

Antony Beevor   The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht...

**Torn Slipcover**Paul Kleber MonodThe late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals...

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme InequalityBhaskar SunkaraFrom one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why...

Amit GilboaPhnom Penh is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation; a city of temples and brothels, music and gunfire, and festivals and coups....

Richard J Evans   From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany.In 1900...

Arthur CotterellWorld Mythology Myths and Legends of the world brought to life Form the siege of Troy to the twilight of the Norse gods at Ragnarok and the mysteries of...

Norman Cousins Anatomy of an Illness was the first book by a patient that spoke to our current interest in taking charge of our own health. It started the revolution...

Leo Bretholz   A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal).Young Leo Bretholz survived...

Brigitte HamannWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to...

Dovid KatzWords on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz...