History
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Hardback
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
Hardback
A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pioneers or imperial power but by sheer mayhem
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
Hardback
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Hardback
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
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Hardback
An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others