Huguenots

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a sold...

Wellington

The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as...

Egypt on the Brink

In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened...

Nostalgia Factory

Contagion

Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect ...

Leonard Bernstein Letters

Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musiciana brilliant conductor who attained inte...

If Mayors Ruled the World

Global Crisis

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities o...

Mutiny and Its Bounty

Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery-so common, in fact...

Surge

Liberty’s Dawn

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer a...