When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of RomeRichard E. Rubenstein★★★★★4.4(538)The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not insist upon it. Hundreds of years after Jesus'...
Where I Was FromJoan Didion★★★★★4.4(526)“Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of...
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of FootballRich Cohen★★★★★4.4(525)“Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But...
Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten HistoryAndrew Carroll★★★★★4.4(504)Readers should fasten their seatbelts ...Carroll's explorations are strangely compelling—I started wondering what...
Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle AgesAnn Baer★★★★★4.4(494)Completely persuasive and ringing with truth. If a medieval peasant woman had ever written a diary it would be like...
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our HistoryMolly Caldwell Crosby★★★★★4.4(481)From Publishers Weekly In a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tenn., fled...
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground RailroadEric Foner★★★★★4.4(428)JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. A classically trained...
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century SpainPaul Preston★★★★★4.4(427)From Bookforum Each well-laid, impeccably researched sentence of The Spanish Holocaust , Paul Preston's latest book on...
American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our NationSeth David Radwell★★★★★4.4(425)PRAISE for AMERICAN SCHISM "Almost every book I read about America these days makes me more pessimistic about the...
Life in a Medieval VillageJoseph Gies★★★★★4.4(421)A good general introduction to the history of this period." -- --Los Angeles Times Frances and Joseph Gies have been...
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press))Benn Steil★★★★★4.4(418)Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History""Co-Winner of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom...
The Phoenix ProgramDouglas Valentine★★★★★4.4(415)About the Author Douglas Valentine is the author of four books of historical non-fiction, one novella, and one book of...
La Revolución rusa contada para escépticosJuan Eslava Galán★★★★★4.4(390)Book Description Un libro riguroso y ameno que nos ayudará a entender la Revolución rusa About the Author Juan Eslava...
Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost EmperorCharles Allen★★★★★4.4(364)A fitting testament to a forgotten epic of discovery... All who relish India's antiquity should read this book." - John...
The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861Huger William Johnstone★★★★★4.4(361)About the Author Huger William Johnstone was born on June 12, 1846, one of three children of William and Mary Blanch...
A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of CowpensLawrence Edward Babits★★★★★4.4(360)An important work that draws upon untapped evidence and employs new methods for interpreting traditional sources. . . ....
Navy SEAL Sniper: An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st CenturyBrandon Webb★★★★★4.4(353)Review “ More than a manual, [Navy SEAL Sniper] is a look at all aspects of the deadliest marksmen on the...
Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest BattleshipNiklas Zetterling★★★★★4.4(351)”... a very interesting and useful history …once you start… you will be very hard pressed to stop until the smoke...
The Responsible CompanyYvon Chouinard★★★★★4.4(346)Yvon Chouinard is a noted alpinist and the founder and co-owner of Patagonia, Inc. Hes also the co-founder, with Craig...
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (Penguin History of Europe)Tim Blanning★★★★★4.4(343)x93History writing at its glorious best.x94 x97 The New York Times x93 Magnificent. Exhilarating. [Blanning has] the...
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (The Penguin History of Europe)T. C. W. Blanning★★★★★4.4(342)?History writing at its glorious best.? ?"The New York Times" ? Magnificent. Exhilarating. [Blanning has] the acuity of...
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaDonald L. Miller★★★★★4.4(337)John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times : "With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago...
Storm Front: The Epic True Story of a Secret War, the SAS's Greatest Battle, and the British Pilots Who Saved ThemRowland White★★★★★4.4(334)About the Author ROWLAND WHITE lives in London with his wife and three children, and works in publishing.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from SlaveryWilliam Craft★★★★★4.4(324)About the Author Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor ofHistory at Vanderbilt University and the...