Nonfiction
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
In 1948, Marie Tharp walked into the Lamont Geological Laboratory at Columbia University and demanded a job. At the time,…
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
The black sands of Iwo Jima were witness to the largest battle ever fought by the US Marines. 30,000 Marines…
Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen
This is a concise account that concentrates on Princess Elizabeth’s childhood and development into the young woman who would be…
Midnight in Peking
In 1937, as the Japanese mustered to invade China, the body of an English girl, Pamela Werner, was found in…
Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
Lest you think, “Just another Titanic retelling,” Down with the Old Canoe is about us. Stephen Biel combs contemporary accounts…
In the Footsteps of William Wallace in Scotland and Northern England
A work of genuine and solid scholarship, Young and Stead’s In the Footsteps of William Wallace compensates for its dry…
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
This is the second part of a two-part history of a nation which began as a British colony. Keneally is…
Nazi Princess: Hitler, Lord Rothermere, and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Who knew? Once called by President Roosevelt “more dangerous than 10,000 men,” a part-Jewish Austrian princess – well-known seductress and…
Small Memories
The title of this delightful book says it all: brief snippets of Saramago’s early life in Portugal, from his earliest…
The Story of Ireland
In this companion volume to a BBC television series, Hegarty presents a panoramic view of Irish history that sweeps from…
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