Hugh Thomas After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions,...

Michael Bar-Zohar Drawing on his own close personal relationship and on previously unavailable firsthand sources — including David Ben-Gurion’s secret files —Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli scholar and official Ben-Gurion biographer, has...

Richard Crossman January 1, 1960 by Atheneum Publishers

Peter Sis In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia—a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV...

Kate Pankhurst Fantastically Great Women Who Made History is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Kate Pankhurst's hugely successful, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, number one best-selling children's...

Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie “A must-read for fans of presidential history.” — USA TODAY“Splendid…a gripping, authoritative campaign history.” — The Boston Globe“Terrific…a tougher and more balanced account of the...

Jason K Stearns “The best account [of the conflict in the Congo] so far….The task facing anyone who tries to tell this whole story is formidable, but Stearns by and...

Taylor Branch From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental...

Dee Brown Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."Bury My Heart at...

Dee Brown Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."Bury My Heart at...

Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor...

Bill Bryon Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and, in five eventful...