A fresh biography of heavyweight champion Joe Louis that probes race, fame, and American culture during the 1930s–1940s. Roberts explores Louis’s athletic achievements, wartime symbolism, and complicated relationship to politics and public...

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...

Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945by Trent Hone Paperback432 Pages2018 Learning War examines the U.S. Navy's doctrinal development from 1898-1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as...

Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific by Trent HoneHardcover448 pagesSeptember 2022 Mastering the Art of Command is a detailed examination of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz‘s leadership during World War II...

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald MillerSpecial Edition Paperback688 PagesJanuary 2024 The inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in...

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka’s first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A...