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"Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar." —The EconomistAdam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea...
From the theologian President Barack Obama cites as one of his favorite philosophers, "the most important book ever written on foreign policy" (Andrew J. Bacevich, from the introduction).Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of...
"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book ReviewNew discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.Twenty thousand years ago, women were making...
"A stirring saga of a New England family . . . Sankovitch has made a compelling contribution to Massachusetts and American history." —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street JournalThe Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in...
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British...
National Book Award for Nonfiction FinalistNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA PBS “Now Read This” Book Club SelectionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by...
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air....
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice SelectionAn erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review).On the heels of her triumphant How...
An authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 1941–1942, with maps: "Hair-raising . . . a page-turner." —Kirkus ReviewsGermany's winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow, a bold, gripping account...
This first complete translation of the Bansenshuka—the ‘bible’ of the ninja arts!Like The Art of War, the tenets of Japanese military strategy and tactics offer valuable lessons for success in everyday life.In 1676, a ninja named Fujibayashi collected and combined...