Nonfiction
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
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Hundred Days tells the story of the last four months of combat on the western front. It concentrates on the fighting in France ...Read Review
Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards
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In this handsome, full-color volume, collector Aizenberg has assembled an utterly chilling array of postcards from around the world in which Jews are ...Read Review
Who’s Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank
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Who’s more significant, Elvis or Beethoven? Napoleon or Abraham Lincoln? How do we decide who’s more important, or bigger, among historical ...Read Review
Bound in Venice
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Moveable type may have been invented in Germany, but the Renaissance-era business of producing and selling books belonged purely to Venice. A political ...Read Review
The Fishing Fleet
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From the 19th to the mid-20th century, upper middle-class British families had a problem: there weren’t enough suitable men for their ...Read Review
The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy, and the Curse of Byron
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In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron’s refuge from notoriety in Geneva, together with a young doctor, John Polidori, coincided with that of ...Read Review
1914: Fight the Good Fight — Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War
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There have been many histories of the First World War, and the centenary of its outbreak will no doubt see several more released. ...Read Review
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed Tudor England
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This is the extraordinary tale of a voyage of discovery every bit as epoch-making as those of Spain and Portugal. Maritime skills in ...Read Review
Egyptomania: Our Three-Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharoahs
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Amateurs and professionals alike know Egyptologist Bob Brier through his books and television specials. Brier’s passion for ancient Egypt is infectious – whether ...Read Review
Great Britain’s Great War
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With the anniversary of the beginning of the First World War rapidly approaching it is no surprise that further publications are coming forth ...Read Review
