Interwar Period

In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II....

The remarkable story of one of WWII's greatest spies. Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer....

In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism....

Churchill: A Life follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph....

John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front....

The War Against the Jews is the definitive book on one of history's darkest chapters. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a combination of political, social, and technological factors....

The first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals....

For six months, the world's major leaders met in Paris to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One....

In 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer...

This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....

Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned....

The Spanish Civil War was much more than just an overture to World War II. It was a war born out of schisms in Spanish society, and for all its brutality and horror, the Spanish Civil War was a conflict between ideals....

Yugoslavia was arguably one of the most unusual geopolitical creations of the 20th century. The Yugoslav state had never existed in any historical sense, and the ties that bound together its constituent peoples were tenuous at best. Listen to learn more about Yugoslavia....

Keith Jeffery’s fascinating and revealing account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world’s first spy agency....

In 1941, the US began to form a hand-picked army to fight in Europe. What made it different is that its troops were composed of artists, actors, meteorologists, and sound technicians....

In Rescue Board, US Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar Rebecca Erbelding uses unrivaled access to archival materials and fresh interviews with survivors to tell the dramatic unknown story of America's last-ditch effort to save the Jews of Europe....

The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the 20th century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Sons of Freedom resurrects the brave heroes who saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the US as the greatest of the great powers....

In Rendezvous with Destiny, Fullilove examines the exceptional men at the heart of America’s transformation into a global power....

If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels....

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence, in times of war as well as peace....