Political

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates....

From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....

If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then pay attention....

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....

On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory....

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....

He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years...

A Revolution of the Mind reveals the surprising origin of our most cherished values....

Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....

This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

Escucha el íntimo, poderoso e inspirador libro de memorias de la exprimera dama de Estados Unidos....

Dr. Bruce Shelley's church history is not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms....

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey...

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book....

A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....

If you want to discover the remarkable history of an effort that should never have succeeded, then pay attention...

The first-hand account of the life, career, and the practices of horror at Auschwitz....

To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy....

The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history....

In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right.... 

A tour-de-force of historical imagination....

In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of 16 ‘warriors’ from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery....