Historiques

Love, betrayal, and a secret war: The War We Won Apart is the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII.

In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....

A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story...

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

This second volume in William Manchester's three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader....

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son....

In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

When Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had already become the most admired person in the US and one of the most unlikely celebrities to capture the world’s imagination....

Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....