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One of our most distinguished historians delivers an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating WWI battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives.At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France...
We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the...
In American presidential history, this is "perhaps the most penetrating book to have been written about Trump in office" (Times Literary Supplement).The extraordinary authority of the US presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides...
One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st CenturyNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly'Slate'Chronicle of Higher Education'Literary Hub, Book Riot' and ZoraA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic...
A "brilliant" history of American beliefs about the family, and how those ideas have affected our politics since the 1960s (Washington Monthly). In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist...
"A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment...
"A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich . . . rich in detail and documentation." (Kirkus Reviews) Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were...
Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Filled with chilling tales of...
A gripping account of the months before and after Joseph Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history.Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph...
A revised version of an American history classic, exploring the people and culture of the Revolutionary era that birthed the nation.When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new...