Agent Sonya: The Spy Next Door
Ben MacintyreNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Timesbestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind the Cold War’s most intrepid female s...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest...
Ben MacintyreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end...
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and t...
Ben MacintyreMaster storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintel...
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening ...
Mary Elise SarotteOn the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall-infamous symbol of divided Cold War E...
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock Th...
Tom ZoellnerThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fas...
China 1945: Mao's Revolution and Amer...
Richard BernsteinAt the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emis...
Great Speeches of the 20th Century (D...
Bob BlaisdellA great speech can stir the soul — and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from some of the twentieth century's most memorable addresses. Writers and speakers in sear...
Flashback to 1961 - A Time Travelerâ€...
B. Bradforsand-Tyler- - - Also available in other years - - -Let's FLASHBACK to 1961 ─ a very special year.Was this the year you were born?Was this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1961, with ...
Flashback to 1971 - A Time Travelerâ€...
B. Bradforsand-Tyler- - - Also available in other years - - -Let's FLASHBACK to 1971 ─ a very special year.Was this the year you were born?Was this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1971, with ...
Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ...
William F. BuckleyConservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's "unconventiona...
Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in t...
Carol DyhouseSince the suffrage movement, young women's actions have been analyzed and decried exhaustively by mass media. Each new bad behavior—bobbing one's hair, protesting politics, drinking, swearing, or twerking, among other things—is he...
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twen...
Jonathan GloverRenowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and...
The Great Escape That Changed Africa'...
Charles HarperThis is the story of the dramatic clandestine escape, in June of 1961, of sixty African students from Portugal across Spain and into France. Most were Angolan intellectuals. Some were from Mozambique and others from Guinea-Bissau, the...
In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubi...
The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of F...
Gord HillThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic...
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of th...
David E. HoffmanWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines th...
1913: The Year Before the Storm
Florian IlliesAn International Bestseller"An absolute gem of a book." —The ObserverJust before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century's most exciting year . . .It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in h...
The Cold War: A New Oral History
Bridget KendallIn this meticulously researched account, Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand. Alongside in-depth analysis that explains the historical and political context, the book draws on ...
When Globalization Fails: The Rise an...
James MacDonaldIS GLOBALIZATION AN UNINTENDED RECIPE FOR WAR? Taking this question as its starting point, James Macdonald's When Globalization Fails offers a rich, original account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth century—and a cautionary...
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Cl...
Jay MargolisThe New York Times BestsellerAccepted into The National Press ClubMarilyn Monroe died under suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962. Now, New York Times bestselling authors Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin finally l...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Ti...
Bill MinutaglioFrom Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963,comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, a...
More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close. Their saga is finally told in this "deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice that began in 1945...
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise an...
Craig Nelson"A thrilling, intense, and disturbing account of the atomic era, from the discovery of X-rays to the tragic meltdown of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…Rich with powerful images and fraught with drama" (The C...
The Cold War (A Step into History)
Steven OtfinoskiWars between rival nations are usually fought on the battlefield. However, from the end of World War II until the early 1990s, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a Cold War in which neither side ever directly attac...
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the ...
David ReynoldsWinner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is co...
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Ci...
Richard RhodesFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, "The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered" (The Washington Post).The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) ...
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of th...
Gareth RussellThis original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end ...
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr...
Tavis SmileyThe New York Times bestselling chronicle of the last twelve months of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s lifeThe real story about Martin Luther King Jr.'s final year has been buried by time and revisionist history. In DEATH OF A KING, bests...
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
Robert StoneFrom the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Build...
Fire and Blood: The European Civil Wa...
Enzo TraversoEurope's second Thirty Years' War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture was playe...