Historical
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
$23.00 Read moreThe long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII’s bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell’s role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn
“This a book th- Author: MacCulloch, Diarmaid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 014313292X
- Language: English
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
$18.95 Add to cartAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exp… [more below]
- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0375726152
- Language: English
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Born Survivors
$19.99 Read more“With remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research, journalist and author Holden relates the three women’s unforgettable journey from their imprisonment in ghettos to their arrival at Auschwitz
- Author: Holden, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 006237026X
- Language: English
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Last Ship to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartAs the Russian Civil War reached its final, tumultuous stages, 11-year-old Lydia Komarkoff and her parents had already spent 11 months living aboard the steamship Kherson adrift in the Black Sea, seek
- Author: Adams, Tamara Buzyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1968668020
- Language: English
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Son of the Revolution: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cart- Author: Heng, Liang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394722744
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945
$20.00 Add to cartDestined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloqu… [more below]
- Series: I Will Bear Witness #2
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756973
- Language: English
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Idiocy
$17.95 Add to cartAn audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: breaking from his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, deserting the French military during the … [more below]
- Author: Guyotat, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379198
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
$29.95 Read more- Author: Finell, Karin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826265464
- Language: English
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Benjamin Rush: The Common Good
$11.99 Read moreBen thought about the strange course of events that had led him to this point in his life. He had considered being a lawyer but had ended up becoming a doctor, and now he was also a politician and mem… [more below]
- Author: Benge, Janet &. Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1624861237
- Language: English
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On Hitler’s Mountain
$16.99 Add to cartGrowing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden — just steps from Adolf Hitler’s alpine retreat — Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and some
- Author: Hunt, Irmgard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060532181
- Language: English
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Last Ship to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartAs the Russian Civil War reached its final, tumultuous stages, 11-year-old Lydia Komarkoff and her parents had already spent 11 months living aboard the steamship Kherson adrift in the Black Sea, seek
- Author: Adams, Tamara Buzyna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1968668993
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee
$14.99 Add to cartA spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth’s conjuror – the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527-1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next ‘Longitu
- Series: Science and Magic of Dr Dee
- Author: Woolley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0006552021
- Language: English
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Hitler
$43.95 Add to cartA bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest’s Hitler as become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Fest, Joachim C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: October 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027542
- Language: English
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler’s Angel
$18.99 Add to cartDiana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified h
- Author: De Courcy, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0060565330
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
$20.00 Add to cartThe publication of Victor Klemperer’s secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. “In its cool, lucid style and power of observation,” said The New York … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback) #1
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753788
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson
$19.99 Add to cartBy “the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time” (New York Times), the critically acclaimed and most concise biography of Andrew Jackson that takes a comprehensive look at the political, personal, an… [more below]
- Author: Remini, Robert V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0060801328
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Mother and a Daughter in the ‘Gilded Age’
$18.99 Add to cartA fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother – then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette.
Consuelo Vanderbilt was one
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0007127316
- Language: English
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Indignity: A Life Reimagined
$29.00 Add to cartThe author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.
When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps- Author: Ypi, Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0374614091
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
$17.95 Add to cartThe true story of the nineteenth century’s so-called “Wild Boy of Aveyron”–an abandoned French child who lived for years alone in the wilderness before being brought under the care of an innovative y… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379775
- Language: English
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Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life
$20.00 Add to cartPart biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for … [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1501129058
- Language: English
