A best-selling historian considers Churchill's first speech before Parliament--a speech that transformed both Churchill and the nation he had come to lead.

Thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence are the characteristics of these five London stories, including the immortal Call of the Wild.

From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.

This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass....

It has been 15 years since Kenneth C. Davis first dazzled audiences with his instant classic Don't Know Much About History, vividly bringing the past to life and proving that Americans don't hate history…

Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean: one of the fiercest and most influential contests in European history.

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name Wessex to the landscape of southwest England and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.

Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham quits the military.

Dr. Livingstone, I presume?....

This enchanting true story, written when the author was ninety-three, is a moving tale of working-class life, social divide, and forbidden love on the eve of the first World War.

One of our publisher's favorites, The Long Walk is the astonishing true story of a trek to freedom. In the spring of 1941, Slavomir Rawicz, a 26-year-old Polish lieutenant…

In this compelling and narrative-driven account, Patrick Cockburn, one of the bravest and most experienced correspondents reporting from the war, tells the story of Muqtada and his extraordinary rise to become what Canadian journalist Naomi Klein described as "the single greatest threat to U.S. military and economic control of Iraq".

Paul Johnson's book is a refreshing return to a concept whose time has come once again: the Great Man theory of biography....

Pope John Paul II is one of the most famous and influential political figures of the world....

Best selling history writer Thomas Cahill continues his series on the roots of Western civilization...

In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world’s secret histories, producing nothing short of an alternate history of the past 3,000 years.

Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral.

The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since.

In 480 B.C., a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty.

This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.

For many centuries, the world of Islam was at the forefront of human achievement....

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young man returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance some 20 years earlier. A feat of narrative skill and soaring imagination, "When We Were Orphans" is Ishiguro at his brilliant best.

Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger---the first-person confession of a murderer---is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.

In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.