History

The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia by Arthur Goldwag English | 2025 | History From the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer English | 2025 | History A rollicking adventure starring

The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America by William Geroux English | 2025 | History The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan English | 2025 | History A “stunning” (Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch) and revelatory new history

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 by Edna Bonhomme English | 2025 | History A deeply reported,

The Story of Nature: A Human History by Jeremy Mynott English | 2025 | History The story of humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present

The Six Triple Eight Valiant Legacy by Elsie Lindsey English | 2025 | History Imagine a cold, dimly lit warehouse in the heart of wartime Europe. Stacks of undelivered letters,

The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past by Nate DiMeo English | 2024 | History Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous

Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover English | 2024 | History Are we about to see history repeat? ‘Do you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going

Madrid: A New Biography by Luke Stegemann English | 2024 | History The miraculous story of Madrid―how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant

Explorers: A New History by Matthew Lockwood English | 2024 | History The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood English | 2024 | History Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray English | 2024 | History How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell English | 2021 | History An exploration of how technology and

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration by Nadine Akkerman, Pete Langman English | 2024 | History A fascinating exploration of the devious