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With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
December 29, 2023Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
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Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
December 28, 2023Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
December 28, 2023It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
December 27, 2023Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
December 23, 2023When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
December 22, 2023The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
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The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
December 21, 2023It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
December 20, 2023This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
December 17, 2023Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Celebrating Galileo in Florence
December 14, 20232009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...