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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to ......more

A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected histori......more

How did a former Austrian corporal in the Bavarian army with no apparent gift for leadership or strategy become the lead......more

This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinati......more

Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back toget......more

"With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the aut......more

I hope you will learn through reading this that my decision making skills sometimes need a bit of help, but, that it all......more

"In my more than half a century of studying the issues of the assassination, I have heard many stories and have never be......more

"In my more than half a century of studying the issues of the assassination, I have heard many stories and have never be......more

Jamie, 12 and his brother Al, 14, having returned to London. Are evacuated again after a V1 bombing and an Aircraft stra......more

George Frederick Tyler was born in 1883 into an enormously wealthy Philadelphia family whose money was made during the p......more

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Eunice Hunt lived during tumultuous times. Youth in Washington, D.C., brought her into personal contact with Presidents ......more

This book represents the twenty-fifth and final volume of twenty-five volumes in a series of verbatim transcripts of the......more

His life spanned half the globe. From the tiny, low-lying country of the Netherlands, Johannes took his family across th......more

History walks among us today. This story shares with the reader a first-hand account of a dark and stressful time in our......more

The Reverend Samuel Cotton and his wife Eliza founded The Caragh Orphanage in 1866. They then collected bountiful charit......more

An unprecedented visual biography of the iconic pioneer of modern physics, with signed photographs, letters, manuscripts......more

As the basis for the popular James Bond stories, Sidney Reilly’s true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic th......more

A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a br......more

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero--the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars--and a vivid portrait of......more

Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional hist......more

A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthand. In the early year......more

"Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Ma......more

The complex and contradictory lives of the Windsors following Edward’s abdication of the British throne in 1936. Shut ou......more

On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop p......more

In The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South William A. Link examines the life of Roger A. Pryor, a ......more

The Men from Miami is a real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolut......more

From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philoso......more

This intimate, fascinating biography of Quaker visionary Charles Walker illuminates his struggles for racial justice and......more

The one thing I knew for sure was, the more family history I found, the more I knew there was more to find! The question......more

A saloon town like no other. Carved out of the wilderness to become the first capital of Arizona Territory, Prescott has......more

Every family is unique. Loyal and Katherine Nash raised their four children to be honest, fair, and proud of their origi......more

The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory "A perfectly paced biog......more

A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives - a......more

Perfect for fans of The Crown, legendary New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive sto......more

New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first......more

From the author of the acclaimed biography of Harry Hopkins comes this first full-scale portrait of Franklin D. Roosevel......more

After Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots from the Dallas Book Depository and killed President John F. Kennedy, Paul Gregory, ......more

"An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times......more

"COME AND EXPERIENCE THE HIDDEN SOUTHERN SECRETS OF GEORGIA AND MAYBE THE REASON FOR DENOUNCING CRITICAL RACE THEORY." C......more

Convicted of stealing a coat in 1832, Benjamin Stanton was sentenced to seven years transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.......more

For many families living in South Russia, Canada was seen as the promised land, a place to escape famine and the communi......more

For many families living in South Russia, Canada was seen as the promised land, a place to escape famine and the communi......more

This is the second book in the Family of the Raj series. The first book covered the story of the O’Kinealy family from C......more

The concept of "Yehudah Rising" began with one individual who was convinced that she was a descendant of the ancient Heb......more

This is the second book in the Family of the Raj series. The first book covered the story of the O’Kinealy family from C......more

When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lieutenant General Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia wa......more

To borrow imagery from C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Timothy George’s perspective as a historical ......more

To borrow imagery from C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Timothy George’s perspective as a historical ......more

At the beginning of 1941, it was unclear whether the Allies would be able to remain in the war for much longer. British ......more

The life of seven generations is an incredibly interesting process to write about. I have discovered that each generatio......more

Although al-Maqrizi is recognised as the most influential historian of pre-modern Egypt, he has never received the probi......more

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Winner, 2022 Blue Light Poetry Prize Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore, where he live......more

Loaded with scandals from the golden age of beautiful bombshells, handsome hunks, and deliciously indecorous hotties, th......more

Malthus and his work, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never for......more

WINNER, 2023 Illinois State Historical Society Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award! A territory split by slavery, ......more

REFRAMING BEAUTY PRESENTS A DIFFERENT WAY OF VIEWING A WOMAN’S BEAUTY THAT’S NOT ABOUT HER LOOKS, NOT ABOUT HER FACE OR ......more

A true story, Charlie is both historical and creative non-fiction; creative for the addition of dialogue that, in most c......more

Tracing one family’s settler generations to the American West, an epic narrative spans decades and continents. From the ......more

Social media has facilitated the sharing of once isolated testimonies to an extent and with an ease never before possibl......more

A diary of life at the Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong in the 1940s. More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong In......more

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship ......more

"Mary-Alice Daniel’s family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid c......more

This "scintillating story superbly told" (The Times, London) explores the adventurous life of the stylish and scandalous......more

Carol Ann Healy (nee McEvoy) was born on 13th September 1935 in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey though the rest of her family......more

First published in 1991, Forsake Fear is the history of historians in post-war Soviet society. Nekrich, in recounting hi......more

Playing his clarinet inside one of London’s most exclusive members’ clubs reminded him of the privilege the elites can e......more

On the very same day as his brother, Arnold enrolled to serve in WW1. He signed up for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve......more

It could be said that it was as likely as not that drink brought Michael Gately to the gallows - not as a condemned man ......more