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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

2024
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place a

1776

2024
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marc

Hiroshima

2024
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city.

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

2024
In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and wit

The Guns of August

2024
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

2024
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innova

John Adams

2024
The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fasci

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

2024
The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

2024
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick o

The Wright Brothers

2024
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereTwo-time winner of the Pulit

Alexander Hamilton

2024
An alternate cover edition can be found here.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow pre

One Summer: America, 1927

2024
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transp

The Best and the Brightest

2024
The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the

Cleopatra: A Life

2024
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the hist

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

2024
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As T

Homage to Catalonia

2024
In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

2024
The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and

Schindler’s List

2024
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

2024
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the p

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

2024
"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back h

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Massie offers the tale of a princess who went to Russia at 14 and be

A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

2024
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the pe

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

2024
The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

2024
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monu

Vietnam: A History

2024
“A landmark work…The most complete account to date of the Vietnam tragedy.” –The Washingto

Flags of Our Fathers

2024
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military his

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

2024
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

2024
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable

Isabella Warrior Queen

2024
The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward

Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

2024
In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us o