Imperialism

The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s...

Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa....

The eagerly awaited final volume in Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy. It is the 20th century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler....

When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs....

In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....

Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean....

In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....

This second volume in William Manchester's three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader....

The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history....

The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live....

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people....

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....

In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism....

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's listenable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II....

Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story....

Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil....

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future....