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The Crimean War: A History
The Crimean War



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"A huge success . . . In The Crimean War Orlando Figes restores the conflict—which predated the American Civil War by eight years—as 'a major turning point' in European and Middle Eastern history . . . Figes artfully uses painstaking archival work to expose the secret machinations of statesmen, but he never overlooks the awful human costs—The Crimean War remains alarmingly relevant."—Gary J. Bass, The New York Times Book Review
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
Just Send Me Word



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"A book to astonish readers:  never before has Stalin’s Gulag been the setting for a love affair. This powerful narrative by a distinguished historian will take its place not just in history but in literature."—Robert K. Massie, author of Catherine the Great
Travels in Siberia:
Travels in Siberia


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"[Travels in Siberia is] an uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps and ubiquitous statues of Lenin—On the Road meets The Gulag Archipelago . . . As he demonstrated in Great Plains, Frazier is the most amiable of obsessives . . . he peels away Russia's stolid veneer to reveal the quirkiness and humanity beneath . . . Frazier has the gumption and sense of wonder shared by every great travel writer, from Bruce Chatwin to Redmond O'Hanlon, as well as the ability to make us see how the most trivial or ephemeral detail is part of the essential texture of a place . . . [An] endlessly fascinating tale."—Joshua Hammer, The New York Times Book Review
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Red Cloud at Dawn



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“Gordin zeros in on the crucial years from Hiroshima to the first flash of ‘Joe 1’ in 1949, the first Russian bomb and the ninth nuclear explosion. Using a spectacular variety of sources from Soviet and American sources, Gordin gives us a book that must be read to understand how we came to the sprawling nuclear proliferation in which we now live.”—Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
Anne Frank



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"It is important to me to teach about the Holocaust in a way that puts it into historical context, portrays how brutal it actually was, and makes it personal, all at the same time. Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography, does all of this in one compelling, hard-to-put-down volume . . . My challenge as a teacher . . . is always to find the most engaging resources and to make them accessible to my students. Whatever we are studying, I want it to come to life for students, in all of its complexity. [This book] presents a story about the life of Anne Frank, and puts it into historical context."—Holly Friel, Social Studies Teacher, Ida B. Wells High School
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Mrs. Adams in Winter



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“Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, a woman who spent her life in voyages both literal and metaphorical, above all longed to leave her mark on the landscape of the life she passed through. The noted historian Michael O’Brien gives Louisa her voice, assuring her place in history as a woman ‘who was,’ as she put it. Take these twin journeys, rendered with precision and grace by a master—across the dramatic frozen landscape of Napoleon’s Europe, and deep within the mind and heart of one of the most compelling characters in American history.”—Catherine Allgor, Presidential Chair and Professor of History, University of California at Riverside
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II
Our Times



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“The author’s often unconventional and funny takes on even the most familiar of subjects keep the pages turning.”—Stephen Lowman, The Washington Post

“[An] idiosyncratic history of modern Britain . . . In The Victorians and After the Victorians, Mr. Wilson showed an uncanny capacity for getting at the heart of past ages. In Our Times, the trilogy’s concluding volume . . . The author once again gives us a multifaceted portrait of an era. Like its predecessors, the book is enlivened by Mr. Wilson’s gift for anecdote [and] character analysis . . . His discussion of the time is infused with a directly personal memory of people, places and events. The result is a piquant refraction of an era of enormous change through a prism that is highly individualistic, even at times eccentric, but in the end deeply rooted and fundamentally true . . . The enthusiasms expressed in Our Times are enjoyable to encounter, but it is Mr. Wilson’s wicked wit that carries the reader along.”—Martin Rubin, The Wall Street Journal
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl



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"Alexievich has not merely given us a work of documentation but of excavation, of revealed meaning. It is hard to imagine how anyone in the West will read these cantos of loss and not feel a sense of communion, of a shared humanity in the face of this horror . . . The stories collected here are not only haunting but illuminating."—Andrew Meier, The Nation
The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture
The Hitler Salute



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“Allert’s The Hitler Salute, a joyously sharp account of a massively evil slice of human history, doesn’t treat the Nazis’ obligatory two-word, one-arm greeting as a product of evil, but as its enabler. He argues, movingly, that the salute wounded Germans’ sociability, connectedness, and personal sovereignty, warping the holy human order.”—The New York Observer
Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
Into the Tunnel



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A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance...
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
Hitler's Beneficiaries



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"Provocative . . . A probing analysis of Nazi economic policies."—The Boston Globe
Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (Fighting Techniques)
Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age

Fighting Techniques #4


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In this thematically-organized, thoroughly-illustrated reference text, five expert authors describe the fighting tactics, equipment and techniques used at the height of Napoleon Bonaparte's empire as well as the developments in weapons technology and changes in military systems.  The book shows in detail how the battles that would define Europe for years to come were fought and won.
The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France
The Terror



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"Andress writes as crisp and up-to-date an account of the Revolution's origins as I have read."—Adams Gopnik, The New Yorker
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A Woman in Berlin



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"A Woman in Berlin deserves a place among the famous war diaries by Anne Frank and Victor Klemperer. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to gain an understanding of the trauma experienced by a defeated people at the end of World War II."—Bianka J. Adams, H-Net Book Review
The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City---Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages
The Sexual History of London



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If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth century and...
Black Sea:
Black Sea


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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History In this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea,...
Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
Stone Voices



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The rediscovery of Scotland’s past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist Scotland has a new Parliament and it has...
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)
The Day of Battle

The Liberation Trilogy (#2 of 3)


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"In The Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson picks up where he left off in An Army at Dawn, his history of the North African campaign, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. A planned third volume, on the Normandy invasion and the war in Europe, will complete The Liberation Trilogy, which is shaping up as a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sights and sounds of battle . . . He excels at describing the furor of battle, and the Italian campaign provides him with abundant raw material . . . Mr. Atkinson, a longtime correspondent and editor for The Washington Post, conveys all of this with sharp-edged immediacy and a keen eye for the monstrous and the absurd."—William Grimes, The New York Times
14-18: Understanding the Great War
14-18



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"Extraordinarily lucid on complex themes . . . A slim, distilled work [that] offers a splendidly readable synoptic introduction to the comparative and interdisciplinary work of [the Historial de la Grande Guerre]."—Hew Strachan, Foreign Affairs
The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Greece
The Peloponnesian War



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"One of the best books on this complicated conflict."—Good Book Guide
The Battle: A New History of Waterloo
The Battle



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At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic and bloody struggle. In the end, as John Keegan...
The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
The Day of the Barbarians



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“A very readable narrative of one of the most significant battles in European history…An excellent resource.”—Booklist On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in...
The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began
The Lost History of 1914



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In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was...
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (Fighting Techniques)
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World

Fighting Techniques #2


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Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World describes the combat techniques of soldiers in Europe and North America from 1500 to 1763. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles in an era where the musket increasingly came to dominate the battlefield, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.

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