History
King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East
Hardback
A CIA station chief, later Jordan's lawyer in Washington, reveals the secret history of a lost peace.
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
Hardback
A blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from "a graceful and passionate writer" (The Washington Post).
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
Paperback
A blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from "a graceful and passionate writer" (The Washington Post).
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Hardback
An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war.
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books