L'Histoire s'accélère, elle va de plus en plus vite. Chacun, par les temps qui courent, tend à ratifier spontanément cette idée reçue, soit pour s'en angoisser, soit pour s'en réjouir. Pourtant, malgré la mondialisation et Internet, rien n'est moins sûr, rien n'est aussi simple. Les progrès précipit ... more »

Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) has puzzled scholars and commentators. Some have claimed that it was a purely political maneuver, while others have explained it as a ruse conjured up by presidential advisers to weaken Soviet resolve. These assumptions, however, fail to acknowledge ... more »

A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched ... more »

Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris ... more »

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He is an American citizen-and an Israeli soldier. Now, in a stunning memoir, Adam Harmon recounts his service with one of the most effective and admired fighting forces in the world. Raised with a strong Jewish identity in New England, Harmon visited Israel as a teenager in 1984. He immediately knew ... more »

Has there ever been a history of the world as readable as this? In The Human Story , James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered neighbors, and established religions, and continues over the course of history, when ... more »

When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before -- thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world. Greene's father -- a soldier with ... more »

Twenty years ago Paul Johnson published Intellectuals , biographical essays forming what Kingsley Amis described as a valuable and entertaining Rogues’ Gallery of Adventures of the Mind . It was a bestseller in many of the score of languages into which it was translated, but also criticized for describing ... more »

In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from Europe came from and with an emphasis on what they believed they were going to , Polk introduces the native ... more »

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The ... more »

Author of the acclaimed The Face of Battle , and, most recently, Intelligence in War , John Keegan now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time. The Iraq War is an urgently needed, up-to-date and informed study of the ongoing conflict. In exclusive ... more »