History

The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Hardback
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Hardback
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes.

The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Hardback
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.

God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
Hardback
Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the...

Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
Paperback
A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.


