“Kirkpatrick makes a good case that 1969 was a year of landmark achievements, cataclysmic episodes and generation-defining events.”—USA Today

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot ...

“The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.”—The New York Review of Books

An outstanding collection of firsthand accounts from the front lines of our military history, drawn from letters, diaries, and reportage from the Plains of Abraham and the Red River Rebellion to the battlefields of two world wars and Korea, as ...

An insider’s look at America’s greatest unsolved mystery.

"Never talked about it." 

That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences.  Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even ...

"A hair-raising thriller." —Sunday Times

For the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day, Ted Barris retells the wartime stories of many of those Canadians who celebrated on May 8, 1945.

First published in 1906, Geronimo is the collaborative work between Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apache, and author

S. M. Barrett. The latter was given special permission from President Theodore Roosevelt to interview Geronimo ...

A revealing portrait of a notorious Nazi henchman, the head of Germany’s Luftwaffe.

History Makers profiles the 100 people, including famous Canadians, whose legacies

burn brightest in the history of the last century—from the greatest scientists to the boldest political leaders and intellectuals—and ranks them in ...

An archeological discovery unearths a remarkable new story of the Underground Railroad.

The true story of the man who inspired Oliver Stone's JFK—now with a new foreword by Jesse Ventura.