Plunder by Cynthia Saltzman
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The fascinating story of how Veronese’s most famous painting, completed in Venice, ended up in the Louvre.
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The Age of Decadence by Simon Heffer
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The Edwardian Era of ostentatious wealth and social upheaval is dramatized in Simon Heffer’s big new book.
Read MoreThe Crown in Crisis by Alexander Larman
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Alexander Larman recounts the story of the Abdication Crisis.
Read MoreOn the House by John Boehner
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Former Speaker of the House John Boehner writes a memoir that he intends to be full of cuss words and honesty. He succeeds at about 50% of that.
Read MoreCalhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
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A new biography of America’s foremost zealot for slavery.
Read MoreAmerican Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky
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A new history of the unprecedented surge in serial killers in the second half of the 20th century.
Read MoreThe Volga by Janet Hartley
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A wonderfully colorful history of the great river running through the Russian federation.
Read MoreIn Search of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy
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Henry Hardy explores the different and at times conflicting sides of the famous scholar Isaiah Berlin
Read MoreThe Crooked Path to Abolition by James Oakes
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A compact and fascinating examination of Abraham Lincoln’s antislavery evolution.
Read MoreIdi Amin by Mark Leopold
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The murderous Ugandan dictator gets a thorough-going new biographical investigation.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2020: History!
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The pre-COVID publishing landscape was filled with a variety of history titles, and these are the best of the lot.
Read MoreTime of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger
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A new history of the birth of modern philosophy.
Read MoreBlack Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The great Haitian revolutionary’s story is told in a boisterous new biography.
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Philip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
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Bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy tells the dual story of Philip of Macedon and his famous son.
Read MoreStalin by Ronald Grigor Suny
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A sweeping account of an idealistic young man transformed into a ruthless dictator.
Read MoreThe Last Brahmin by Luke A. Nichter
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An examination of the wide-ranging and varied political influence wielded by Henry Cabot Lodge.
Read MoreKing of the World by Philip Mansel
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An opulent new biography gives a more internationally-minded view of France’s inimitable Sun King.
Read MoreThis is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
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A scholar explores for a popular audience how ambiguity creates contemporary relevance in twenty of Shakespeare’s plays.
Read MoreLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexievich interviews 100 people who were children during the Second World War and relates their stories.
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