Nonfiction
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
Thomas De Quincey is most famous for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and for his friendship with the Romantic…
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
By any standards, Grigory Rasputin led an extraordinary life. He was born in 1869 in a remote Siberian village; during…
The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America
In the waning days of World War II, American soldiers looted Germany for souvenirs: homebound plunder including lugers, daggers, and…
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Chess players know that the queen can outmanoeuvre the king in every respect, except in the final checkmate. Gristwood’s book…
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
If streets could talk… Cruickshank focuses like a laser beam upon the buildings of one of London’s best-known neighbourhoods, chronicled…
We Also Served: The Forgotten Women of the First World War
The title of this book does not do justice to its scope. In the preface, Vivien Newman observes that our…
Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241
If you’re like me watching The Vikings on the History Channel, then you usually find yourself searching the internet to…
Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen
Isabella of Castile was certainly a formidable queen. You may know her only from a whirlwind Western Civilization class as…
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
The birth of the Berlin Wall is well-known, and the fall of The Berlin Wall is equally well documented. What…
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
In Borman’s latest, the focus is not only the personal relationships of the Tudor monarchs and their intimates, but also…
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