Browsing: History

“The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available” (The New York Review of Books): A Jewish doctor chronicles his time at Auschwitz, where he was forced to work as an assistant to the infamous Nazi scientist Josef Mengele. A New York Times bestseller with over 9,100 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

A #1 New York Times bestseller, named a Best Book of 2020 by the New York Public Library, Time, Bloomberg, and more! The author who became a legend of the historical nonfiction genre with The Devil in the White City chronicles the leadership of Winston Churchill amid the drama of the London Blitz. “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers” (NPR).

A US senator examines the history of gun violence in the United States in this “nuanced exploration” (Time) that seeks to understand the issue and find a way forward. “An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Samantha Power).

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST • “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post   “Esther…

On Good Friday in 1964, an earthquake devastated Anchorage, Alaska. This “funny, poignant, and surprising” narrative history (Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) tells the story of the radio reporter who brought the community together in the aftermath.

A must-read for fans of Unbroken: Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch came home from Vietnam with a Medal of Honor — but the war had tested his mind and soul in unimaginable ways. Retreating to the New England mountains, the veteran would have an encounter with God that would change his life forever.

Known as one of the first female serial killers, Jane Toppan used her occupation, nursing, to gain access to her victims. Learn her chilling story in this “complex — and terrifying — portrait of a killer who seemed almost doomed from birth” (Kate Winkler Dawson, author of American Sherlock).

When an investigative journalist’s bold and infamous undercover sting laid bare graft-ridden 1970s Chicago from inside a dummy pub, she…

“Profound, gripping, and gut-wrenching… Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist starred review): Ariana Neumann recounts the harrowing past her father kept from her — his time enduring unspeakable horrors while hiding from the Gestapo in Berlin. “Beautifully told” (John le Carré).

“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based…