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Richard Breitman's Official Secrets is an important work based on newly declassified archives. As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes, about their murder of...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans -era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever...
"A history cum memoir by Lena Horne's daughter tells the story of her forebears . . . eloquently conveys . . . how politics and prejudice can shape a family." — The New Yorker In The Black Calhouns , Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into...
"A memorable and vivid history lesson about a remote mysterious place that, in terms of its sheer survival, has implications for our own lives." — The Times-Picayune Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness...
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker “A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any other war.” —Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book Review From one of the great foreign correspondents of our time,...
"Insightful commentary on the tangible relics of the Third Reich . . . Tells the history of the Nazi regime from a fascinating new perspective" ( Military History Monthly ). Hitler's Third Reich is covered in countless books and films: no conflict of the twentieth...
It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind. In conjunction with History...
“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — The New York Times Book Review Politics. Money. Media. Tech. …It’s all here in Collision of Power. “ All the President's Men for a new generation.” — Town & Country Marty...
This historical account re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden during World War II, revealing the justification behind the controversial aerial bombing. "Passionately written and deeply affecting. . . . A bracing rebuke to the myths and propaganda that have painted...
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the author of The Time Traveller's Guide series— " the most remarkable medieval historian of our time" ( The Times , UK). We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterized by...