The Battle of Waterloo

Hardcover | 256 pages | Random House | History - Military - Other
978-1-4000-6737-4 (1-4000-6737-5)

March 16, 2010 | $32.00



The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog...

The Liberators

Hardcover | 384 pages | Bantam | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Holocaust; Psychology - Psychopathology - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
978-0-553-80756-1 (0-553-80756-0)

March 16, 2010 | $33.00



At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi death camps, The Liberators is an essential...

Weller's War

Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Three Rivers Press | History - Military - World War II
978-0-307-34203-4 (0-307-34203-4)

March 16, 2010 | $22.00



Walter Cronkite called him “one of our best war correspondents.” His stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific during World War II won him the Pulitzer Prize. Now, George Weller is immortalized in a collection of fearless, intrepid dispatches that crisscross a shattered globe. Edited by his son, Weller’s War...

Aladdin's Lamp

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | History - Europe
978-0-307-27783-1 (0-307-27783-6)

March 9, 2010 | $19.95



Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains...

Alexander the Great

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Virgin Books | History - Ancient - Greece
978-0-7535-1008-7 (0-7535-1008-1)

March 9, 2010 | $34.95

The Book of Firsts

Trade Paperback | 640 pages | Anchor | History - Reference
978-0-307-38843-8 (0-307-38843-3)

March 9, 2010 | $19.95



  The Book of Firsts is an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world.

Peter D’Epiro makes this handy overview of human history both fun and thought-provoking with his survey of the major “firsts”—inventions, discoveries, political and military...

China Rises

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Virgin Books | History - China; Travel - Asia - China
978-0-7535-1349-1 (0-7535-1349-8)

March 9, 2010 | $21.95

Daniel O'Donnell's Ireland

Hardcover | 160 pages | Virgin Books | Music; History - Ireland
978-1-905264-08-7 (1-905264-08-9)

March 9, 2010 | $54.95

Flight of the Titans

Trade Paperback | 280 pages | Virgin Books | History - Military - Aviation
978-0-7535-1014-8 (0-7535-1014-6)

March 9, 2010 | $34.95

Holy Warriors

Hardcover | 464 pages | Random House | History - Medieval
978-1-4000-6580-6 (1-4000-6580-1)

March 9, 2010 | $37.00



From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary...

India Booms

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Virgin Books | History - India; Travel - Asia - India; Business & Economics - Economic History
978-0-7535-1354-5 (0-7535-1354-4)

March 9, 2010 | $21.95

London Walks: London Stories

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Virgin Books | History - Great Britain
978-0-7535-1505-1 (0-7535-1505-9)

March 9, 2010 | $25.95

A Tolerable Anarchy

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | History - North America
978-1-4000-9584-1 (1-4000-9584-0)

March 9, 2010 | $19.95



In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions...

Tukankhamun

Trade Paperback | 444 pages | Virgin Books | Social Science - Archaeology; History - Ancient - Egypt
978-0-7535-0851-0 (0-7535-0851-6)

March 9, 2010 | $27.95

Classified

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Arrow | History - Great Britain; History - Social History
978-0-09-951949-2 (0-09-951949-6)

March 8, 2010 | $23.95



A wonderfully quirky social history of modern Britain, explored through the medium of the personal ad. It’s a sideways look at the history of relationships from WWI soldiers looking for lady friends, to lonely clerks and typists, through to internet junkies today.


From the Hardcover edition.