Isaac Deutscher Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible...

Charles Townshend The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against...

Dick Morris Dick Morris has written the ultimate inside story about the dramatic reelection of President Clinton, one that is certain to stir controversy about the way politics really works...

Taylor Branch In Parting the Waters , the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” ( The...

Joan Biskupic New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done...

Emma Marriott So much of what we know about historical events is based on generally accepted 'facts': Roman gladiators fought to the death; the Wild West was full of danger;...

Matthew Sweet An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to...

John Grigg Lloyd George: The People's Champion, sequel to John Grigg's enthusiastically praised The Young Lloyd George, describes the career of David Lloyd George from 1902 to 1911, its most exciting...

Jonathan Schneer In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership...

WB Bartlett In recent times, globalisation has made the world more interdependent than ever before. W. B. Bartlett’s masterly new history of the world narrates the great – and small...

AN Wilson Both the longest reigning British monarch and female sovereign in history, Queen Victoria was a figure of profound paradox who has mystified historians for over a century. Now...

Rex Weyler This classic and accessible history of the American Indian Movement details an important part of Native peoples' continuing struggles against corporate and governmental development interests. Blood of the...