History books

A historical survey of all the main denominational families in the British Isles and North America, contending that...  Read More >>

Explores the experiences of English-speaking merchant households in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli between 1662 and...  Read More >>

Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype...  Read More >>

This history of the League of Red Cross Societies (now International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent) examines...  Read More >>

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This book documents the groundbreaking discovery of a 1559 shipwreck from the fleet of Spanish explorer Tristán...  Read More >>

Between April and September 1980, more than 125,000 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, braving the dangerous 90-mile...  Read More >>

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Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

On 9 April 1940, Nazi Germany occupied Denmark. Not everyone accepted the surrender. Abroad, Danish Nationals mobilised...  Read More >>

Country music is as mythologized as the region with which it’s most closely associated, and it remains one of the...  Read More >>

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""[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative."" -Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale University...  Read More >>

For fans of Francine Rivers' realistic Christian fiction comes a slow-burn Viking historical romance of enemies...  Read More >>

From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli, the extraordinary story of the Australian Light Horse, their...  Read More >>

Antoun Issa powerfully captures his mother's true experiences of love, heartbreak and new hope during the violence...  Read More >>

Based on formerly secret and top-secret Soviet military records, supplemented with extensive analysis and over 100...  Read More >>

A fresh, accessible history of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary – telling a story of working-class community...  Read More >>

An expert and lively history of Ireland - from the bestselling author of The Shortest History of Germany and The...  Read More >>

The extraordinary tale - 'A two-volume mystery!' Mark Twain called it - of the solicitor who incited a campaign...  Read More >>

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A vital, unflinching contribution to Holocaust history and the study of evil. Female Guards of Nazi Brutality uncovers...  Read More >>