Browsing: History

From a New York Times bestselling author: Trace the rich and storied history of the man-made canal that linked America’s Great Lakes to the sea and changed the country’s trade and travel forever.

A New York Times bestseller with more than 700 five-star Goodreads ratings: This riveting history examines the June 1944 attack by the US on the Mariana Islands — a moment that changed modern war. “An impressively lucid account… Admirable, fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal).

In 1941, seven-year-old Hildegarde and her family embarked on a voyage abroad, only to find themselves stranded in wartime Japan for six years. A moving memoir about courage and resilience — “you will not want to put it down” (Larry King).

“Compelling” (New York Times bestselling author Michael Gross): Known as the “American Venus,” Audrey Munson was a Gilded Age model whose world-famous beauty inspired countless artists — but her turbulent personal life was shrouded in chaos and tragedy.

From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the…

In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program…

This New York Times bestseller tells the incredible true story of the American servicemen and German spies who rescued the purebred horses stolen by Hitler’s forces. An “unlikely, poignant” tale (Kirkus Reviews) with over 1,300 five-star Goodreads ratings.

This “tense, fascinating account” (Publishers Weekly) chronicles the unbelievable true story of a group of West Germans who risked everything to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall and liberate East Germans. “A gripping page-turner that thrills like fiction” (Kirkus Reviews).

Tara Clancy grew up in three wildly different homes in New York City, each revealing a unique side of the largest metropolis in the US. In this candid, funny memoir, she provides “a fantastically vivid view into her many worlds” (Booklist).

A New York Times bestseller from a Nobel Prize–winning author: This history of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and creation of a new Russia is “vivid and incandescent” (The Washington Post). An NPR Best Book of 2016!