Abundance of Valor

Hardcover | 400 pages | Presidio Press | History - Military; History - Military - World War II
978-0-345-50176-9 (0-345-50176-4)

March 23, 2010 | $37.00



The operation known as “Market Garden”—made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far—was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time, a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory that has become a legend of World War II, even as it still invites criticism from historians. Now...

Appetite for America

Hardcover | 544 pages | Bantam | History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy); History - United States - 19th Century; History - Social History
978-0-553-80437-9 (0-553-80437-5)

March 23, 2010 | $33.00



The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the...

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

Hardcover | 528 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Royalty; History - Europe
978-1-4000-4363-7 (1-4000-4363-8)

March 23, 2010 | $35.00



In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive...

Roots of Steel

Hardcover | 304 pages | Pantheon | History - United States - 20th Century; History - United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (Dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa); Business & Economics - Corporate History
978-0-375-42368-0 (0-375-42368-0)

March 23, 2010 | $33.00



When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But in the decades since, the decline of American manufacturing has put tens of thousands out of work...

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