In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men met in the most notorious chess match of all time....

A perfect gift for your favorite history buff, or for your own collection, this audio set from the acclaimed "Eminent Lives" series is a must for anyone interested in the story of America.

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumental revolution.

In nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia an orphaned child born of Jewish and Cossack blood grows up in a land of wealthy aristocrats, struggling peasants, and growing discontent.

In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews....

Granted unprecedented access to the Pope and his friends, a distinguished author presents a groundbreaking portrait of the Pope as a man, philosopher, and a pastor whose religious convictions defined a new approach to world politics.