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...

Mark BowdenOn October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of...

Asne Seierstad From the award-winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul comes a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramati c events leading up...

David Treuer A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of...

Adaia abd Abraham Shumsky The touching story of an unusual friendship between a Jordanian king and a Jewish carpenter hired to do work on the palace is set against the...

Richard Norton Smith and Douglas BrinkleyFamous last words: "'Tis well." "I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."...

Matti Friedman   Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the...

Jan T Gross On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven...

Jennifer Worth   Stories of people who grew up under the horrifying and dehumanizing workhouse conditions in the early 20th century, by a mid-wife who knew and worked among them.

Bill Bryson Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt...

SC Gwynn In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of...

Andrew Roberts AWARDED THE PRIX DU JURY DES GRANDS PRIX DE LA FONDATION NAPOLÉON 2014From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive...