Nonfiction
Blood Cries Afar
An often overlooked event in English history comes to life in this information-packed account of the French Invasion of 1216.…
The Elizabethans
Readers seeking political intrigue, court skullduggery, ceremonial pomp, amorous relationships, or even literary, economic, and philosophical history of the 16th…
The Palace and the Bunker: Royal Resistance to Hitler
The Palace and the Bunker is more ideological tract than history. Frank Millard, armed with a PhD in history from…
Treblinka Survivor
Treblinka Survivor is based on a 22-page document by Hershl Sperling. At the age of 15, Sperling was shoved into…
The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican
Dr. Catherine Fletcher, who teaches at Durham University, England, has researched an often overlooked piece of the puzzle to Henry…
Just Send Me Word
Lev and Sveta meet in 1935 in the Physics program at Moscow University, but the German invasion in the summer…
Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Isabella Robinson was a free-spirited young woman forced into a cold second marriage with an unpleasant, unfaithful man, Henry Robinson.…
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth and the Wars of Religion
When Elizabeth I came to the throne, it was to reign over a country deeply divided by religion and still…
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
They called it the “Great Game,” the game played by imperialist nations competing for lucrative trade and commercial privileges in…
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
Toward the end of the summer of 1944, the Allied forces were hopeful about an imminent victory over the Third…
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