Nonfiction
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard
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The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard is a faithful translation of the diary kept by Ivan Chistyakov, a Russian gulag prison guard ...Read Review
My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
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Illuminating first-hand letters and diaries, including some newly discovered, enable the author to credibly deliver another historical non-fiction masterpiece. This book focuses on ...Read Review
The Earth Is Weeping
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This is surely the definitive work on the Indian Wars in the American West (i.e. west of the Mississippi) from the end ...Read Review
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father
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This fascinating book follows Benjamin Franklin’s life in Georgian Britain from 1757-1775, with a brief intermission back in Philadelphia. He came in ...Read Review
Mozart’s Starling
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Like its two subjects – Mozart and the European Starling – this natural history is virtuosic, lively, affectionate, and entertaining. Haupt offers a deep dive ...Read Review
The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr’s Hill Murder
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In April 1866, in the small village of Carr’s Hill, in the north-east of England, the murdered body of Sarah Melvin, a five-year-old ...Read Review
The Late Lord: The Life of John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
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John Pitt was the son of a great man (William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham) and the brother of another (William ...Read Review
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
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The Affair of the Poisons rocked the glamorous world of Louis XIV in the 17th century. A series of arrests led to the ...Read Review
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
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Margaret Douglas was Henry VIII’s niece. At age fifteen, he invited her to his Christmas court. She became a lady in waiting ...Read Review
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
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If streets could talk… Cruickshank focuses like a laser beam upon the buildings of one of London’s best-known neighbourhoods, chronicled in an ...Read Review
