Historie

Robert Graysmith

Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of the killer's…

Sofi Thanhauser

Dorothy Ali

What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions…

Ian Morris

How long will the power of the West last? In order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundred years? With flair and authority, historian and archaeologist…

David Grann

Harald Jähner

George Packer

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. Packer journeys through the lives of several Americans including a son of a tobacco farmer…

Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum

Solomon Northup

A slave narrative, new to "Classics".

Jake Adelstein

Simon Hall

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a…

The turbulent age that straddles the first millennium is brought to life in a history worthy of a modern television epic. -Financial Times Thrilling history provides a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo…

Hampton Sides

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death'An astounding tale . . . recreated…

Hampton Sides

Joseph Henrich

Katherine Howe

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth…

Jonathan Freedland

Mike Duncan

Philip Oltermann

Ben Macintyre

Christopher Clark

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering…