Author: arthurherman

“A stirring investigation of the Scandinavian influence on our times, both past and present. You won’t look at the world the same way again.”—Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author of The Winter FortressFrom a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America Scandinavia has always … shaped history and America Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally…

This New York Times bestseller provides a rich and vital history of Scotland and the crucial impact its people have had on the modern world. “Lively and informative” (Library Journal), with over 1,100 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

A “magnificent” international bestseller (Kirkus Reviews starred review) from a Pulitzer Prize–nominated author: Learn how two powerful businessmen joined together to create the industrial behemoth that would win World War II. “A compulsively readable tribute” (Publishers Weekly).