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Atkinson (Author)
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2007-05-15
Henry Holt & Co
In <I>An Army at Dawn,</I>, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with
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Rick Atkinson (Author)
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2008-09-16
<b>Amazon Best of the Month, November 2007</b>: Topping a Pulitzer Prize-winning effort is tough; finding originality in a World War II narrative is even toughe
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Erik Larson (Author)
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2004-02-10
Random House Inc
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book''s
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Bill O'Reilly
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2011-09-27
Henry Holt and Co.
<P><B>A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bes
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Tom Standage (Author)
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2006-05-16
<div><div>From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history<br>Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just
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Rick Atkinson (Author)
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2002-10-02
Henry Holt & Co
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume
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Rick Atkinson (Author)
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2007-10-02
Henry Holt & Co
<b>Amazon Best of the Month, November 2007</b>: Topping a Pulitzer Prize-winning effort is tough; finding originality in a World War II narrative is even toughe
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Amanda Foreman (Author)
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2011-06-28
Random House
<p align=left> <span class="h1"><strong>Photographs from <i>A World on Fire</i></strong></span> <br>Click on the photos below to enlarge.</br> <p><table wid
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Howard Zinn (Author)
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2005-08-02
Harpercollins
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of <I>A People''s History of the United States</I> turns traditional te
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Sun Tzu
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2013-05-13
Simon & Brown
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu''s classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These
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Howard Zinn (Author)
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2010-11-02
Harper Perennial
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of <I>A People''s History of the United States</I> turns traditional te
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Isabel Wilkerson
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2011-10-04
Vintage
<b>One of <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>’s 10 Best Books of the Year<br><br></b>In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning auth
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William Manchester (Author)
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2011-12-01
Little Brown & Co
It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads
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S. C. Gwynne
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2011-05-10
Scribner
<b>In the tradition of <I>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, </i>a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white s
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Dave Eggers (Author)
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2010-06-15
Vintage Books USA
A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book <br>An <i>O, The Oprah Magazine </i>Terrific Read of the Year<br>A <i>Huffington Post </i>Best Book of the Year <br>A <i>Ne
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David Christian (Author)
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2007-06-21
A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today s version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those conne
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Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)
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2007-04-24
Penguin USA
Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning <I>In the Heart of the Sea</I>, hailed as “spellbinding” by
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Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)
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2001-08-07
Simon & Schuster
The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid figh
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Charles C. Mann (Author)
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2006-10-10
Random House Inc
<I>1491</I> is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in t
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Jefferson Madison (Author)
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2005-01-01
National Center for Constitutional Studies
<P><b>The Constitution of the United States, with Index, and The Declaration of Independence</b>: <i>Pocket Edition</i></p><P>This Constitution was proofed word
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David Graeber (Author)
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2011-07-12
Melville House Publishing
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter system--to relieve ancient people from having to ha
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Gregory A. Freeman (Author)
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2008-09-02
<B>Now in paperback—the “amazing”( James Bradley, <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author of <I>Flags of Our Fathers</I>) never-before-told story of the greate
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Tim Egan (Author)
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2006-09-01
Houghton Mifflin
<DIV>The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.<br>Timothy Egan’s criti
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