History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past by Edward T. LinenthalPaperback295 PagesAugust 1996 From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at...

In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by: Erik LarsonPaperback448 PagesJanuary 2011Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story...

Inventing Japan: 1853-1964by Ian BurumaPaperback208 Pages2004 In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has...

Last Hope Islandby Lynne OlsonPaperback576 Pages2017 A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times...

The Nazis Huntersby Andrew NagorskiPaperback432 Pages2017 More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close. Their saga is finally told in this “deep and sweeping account of a...

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 By: Stephen E. Ambrose Paperback 432 Pages Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the...