By Sam Willis

In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson

Dispatches from seven naval battles of the Napoleonic Era illuminate the years when Britannia ruled the seas.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam

A commanding history of this longest battle of the war asks questions that time cannot answer.

By Harvey J. Kaye

The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great

A rousing history of the Greatest Generation.

By Giles Milton

Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Plot for Global Revolution

Former spies tell outlandish yarns in this account of the birth of Her Majesty’s Secret Service

by Todd S. Purdum

An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This riveting history keeps you asking, "Will it pass?" even though you know that it does.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur

A riveting, accessible biography of a complex character from American history.

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

Too radical for their time, these women even confused Karl Marx.

Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery

A fascinating whodunnit about arson in pre-WWII Nazi Germany that created a dictator and changed the course of history.