History
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Paperback
A masterful history of the American Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Paperback
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation and the desperate struggle for survival
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Paperback
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers and inventors who brought it to life
Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
Paperback
A ground-breaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
Paperback
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire