Neal Karlen A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together. Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages,...

Adam Nicolson In Quarrel with the King , Adam Nicolson, the bestselling author of God’s Secretaries and Seize the Fire, explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion, as witnessed...

Joseph M Hochstein and Murray S Greenfield Introduction by Martin Gilbert. Hebrew edition published by Israel Ministry of Defense. Dramatic story of the rescue of Jews from Europe after World...

John Julius Norwich A narrative story of Byzantium. From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted...

John L Stephens This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc....

Graham Phillips The excavation of a mysterious Egyptian tomb in the early twentieth century holds the key to one of the greatest disasters to strike humankind. Strangely sealed, this was...

Andrea di Robilant In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he...

Jonathan Clements His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of...

Robert Latham Generations of readers have found Pepys' diaries one of the best ways to vicariously experience the tumultuous world of seventeenth century London, the time of Restoration, the Plague,...

Stephen E Ambrose As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough assignments--responsible for everything from parachuting into France early DDay morning...

Walter Thompson In "Beside the Bulldog" you are invited to experience WWII at the side of Britain's greatest Briton. December 19, 2005 by Apollo Publishing

Mary Beth Norton The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION preserves the text's approach to American history as a story of all American people. Known for a number...