History & Military
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Those Who Are about to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
$35.00 Add to cartONE OF THE ECONOMIST‘S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 – See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator–from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after
“A grippingly original way of maki- Author: Sidebottom, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593801768
- Language: English
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
$31.99 Add to cartFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template o
- Author: Ely, Melvin Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250381118
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Ghosts of Honolulu comes their most harrowing true story yet.
It’s 1942, and New York City is at war. German U-boats are sinking ships just miles offshore
- Author: Harmon, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1400252989
- Language: English
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The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado’s Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
$35.00 Add to cartBy the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063383888
- Language: English
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The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land
$30.00 Add to cartTwo lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and di… [more below]
- Author: Sarah, Aziz Abu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217086511
- Language: English
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Stellar: A World Beyond Limits and How To Get There
$23.20 Add to cartA bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity, Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair tha
- Author: Arbib, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1067046402
- Language: English
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A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
$20.00 Add to cartFor more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward‘s legendary advice column, “A Bintel Brief” (“a bundle of letters”) dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1… [more below]
- Author: Metzker, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209808
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$21.99 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116803
- Language: English
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Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
$32.99 Add to cartTELEGRAPH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from c- Author: Taylor, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1804549991
- Language: English
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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
$24.95 Add to cartSince its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at th… [more below]
- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836740409
- Language: English
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international co… [more below]
- Author: Reston, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1400031915
- Language: English
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Guadalcanal’s Longest Fight: The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front
$34.95 Add to cart“Drawing from previously unknown and unused sources, Holland paints a vivid picture of the desperate fights that broke the back of the Japanese forces ashore during that pivotal period of 1942. Hollan… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Dave R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1636245846
- Language: English
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Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens
$29.95 Add to cartA new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city’s supposed “Golden Age” as a period of ruinous culture wars.
The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is o- Author: Stuttard, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0674258479
- Language: English
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age
$29.95 Add to cartThe Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blain
- Author: Mitchell, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1889020613
- Language: English
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
$21.99 Add to cartIn imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while s
- Author: Barraclough, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123346
- Language: English
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New England Sweets: Doughnuts, Bonbons & Whoopie Pies
$24.99 Add to cartA chocolate mill opened in Boston in the late 1700s, setting the stage for New England’s enduring love affair with sweets. Over the following centuries, the region has become home to an extraordinary
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bregman, Susan Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157481
- Language: English
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The History Book
$34.99 Add to cartWhy did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Part of DK’s indispensable Big Ideas series, this fully revised
- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: Dk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593966783
- Language: English
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
$20.00 Add to cartWITH A NEW AFTERWORD
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR’s Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Boo- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593476115
- Language: English
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The Shipyard Agent
$26.95 Add to cartAs an undercover investigator, Augusta Clawson was assigned to Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard to join the ranks of female welders in World War II. Meanwhile, she surreptitiously sent reports back to
- Author: Hodgins, Beverly Lionberger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1493087630
- Language: English
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The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate
$32.50 Add to cartHow white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics
It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist- Author: Dozier, Curtis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0300272731
- Language: English
