Martin Goodman A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.Martin Goodman—equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies—examines...

Bruce Hoffman A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial...

Paul Cartledge In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the...

Evan S Connell On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of...

Evan Thomas He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it."...

Richard Lloyd Parry An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman.Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo...

Mark Thomas A hilarious, fascinating attempt by an activist and comedian to understand the Middle EastThe Israeli barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall....

Eugene Rogan THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character sketches, witty asides and...

David Faber On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting in Munich with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. As he disembarked from the...

James Barr It was the middle of World War I. Two men one, a visionary British politician (Mark Sykes), the other, a veteran French diplomat (Francois Georges-Picot) secretly agreed to...

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...

Roy Jenkins Originally published in 1995, this is a biography of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), which charts the political career and personal life of the only person who saw four...