On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American soldiers invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days,... Read more

The Pulitzer Prize—winning coauthor of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison camps — and the nearly 20,000... Read more

The Bitter Road to Freedom depicts in searing detail the shocking price that Europeans paid for their freedom, ranging from the ferocious... Read more

A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich is a chilling... Read more

America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women... Read more

Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an... Read more

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve... Read more

In the winter of 1862, during the seemingly endless nightmare of the Civil War, a small miracle occurred. Just after Christmas, on the eve of the... Read more

Though the New Testament gospels are some of the most extraordinary documents ever written, the picture they provide of Jesus's world is a... Read more

Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time... Read more