Gulag
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2004
Price: $18.00

Pulitzer Prize-winner, Non-Fiction 2004
National Book Critics Circle Nominee, Non-Fiction
National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction 2003
Winnner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2003

The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.

The Gulag entered the world’s historical... Read more >

The Last Mughal
The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Written by William Dalrymple

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $30.00

Winner of the 2007 Duff Cooper Prize

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of... Read more >

The Fatal Shore
The epic of Australia's founding
Written by Robert Hughes

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1988
Price: $19.95

Winner of the 1987 Duff Cooper Prize

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England’s infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.

"A brilliant and enduring achievement...history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful... Read more >

Edge of Empire
Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
Written by Maya Jasanoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95

Winner of the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize

A Palladian villa filled with Western artifacts in the middle of Calcutta's central banana depot, the Mughal Emperor's letters uncovered in the back room of an archive in the French Alps, the name of a long-dead English diplomat feebly scratched into the stone of an... Read more >

A History of Warfare

Written by John Keegan

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1994
Price: $16.95

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 1993

One of the world' s foremost military historians offers a sweeping view of the place of warfare in civilization. Probing the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war throughout history, John Keegan suggests why, in 2,000 years, humanity has not advanced far beyond the acceptance of... Read more >

Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke

Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $18.00

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Salonica, City of Ghosts
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
Written by Mark Mazower

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $16.95

Winner of the 2004 Duff Cooper Prize

Salonica, City of Ghosts is an evocation of the life of a vanished city and an exploration of how it passed away. Under the rule of the Ottoman sultans, one of the most extraordinary and diverse societies in Europe lived for five centuries amid its... Read more >