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....

Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history....

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes....

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....

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

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....

The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread....

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions....

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"....

Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler....

Hitler's American Friends, by Bradley W. Hart, is an audiobook examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners, and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II....

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII....

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement....

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....

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....

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day, and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations....

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 all of Roman history there was never a more turbulent year than A.D. 69, the ill-omened "Year of the Three Emperors"....

Consider the intense and rapid changes that transformed the political, social, and economic struggles of the world during the 20th century....