History
Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
Hardback
A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war.
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Hardback
The dramatic story of Noor Inayat Khan, a secret agent for the British in occupied France.
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Hardback
Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston’s magisterial history of modern Spain.
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
Hardback
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Paperback
A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease.