Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes...
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however...
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this...
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My Father's Country
The Story of a German Family
Written by Wibke Bruhns
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century.
On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in...
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no
.Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating...
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating...
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England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
Written by Kate Williams
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
She was the most famous woman in England–the beautiful model for society painters Joshua Reynolds and George Romney, an icon of fashion, the wife of an ambassador, and the mistress of naval hero Horatio Nelson. But Emma Hamilton had been born to the poverty of a coal-mining town and spent her...
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The Illustrious Dead
Napoleon, Typhus, and the Dream of World Conquest
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.50
“Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat.”
—Jack Weatherford,author of the
New York Times bestseller
Genghis Khan and the Making of the
Modern World In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature,
New York Times bestselling...
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Dark Continent
Europe's Twentieth Century
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $17.95
"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --
Los Angeles TimesDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything...
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous...
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In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Written by Geert Mak
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $24.95
In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery.
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened—Leonardo da Vinci’s
Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials...
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Vanished Smile
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $24.95
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $23.95
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $34.95
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $17.50
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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