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On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste ... more »

Over 550 Historical Works and Documents - Only $19.95 (55% OFF) 1000-1562: DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION 1562-1753: COLONIZATION 1753-1783: REVOLUTION 1783-1803: THE FEDERALIST PERIOD 1803-1847: WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE WAR OF 1812 1820-1847: DEVELOPING NATION AND TEXAS 1845-1861: THE MEXICAN WAR AND SLAVERY ... more »

Ebook Extra: Don't Know Much About Kenneth C. Davis: An Interview with the Author A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don't Know Much About® series When Don't Know Much About® History first appeared thirteen ... more »

No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Ã?lysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as elusive ... more »

The war in the skies above Vietnam still stands as the longest our nation has ever fought. For fourteen years American pilots dropped bombs on the Southeast Asian countryside -- eventually more than eight million tons of them. In doing so, they lost over 8,588 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. They ... more »

Vladimir Fedorovski, ancien diplomate et Docteur en Histoire, retrace ici l'histoire de celles que l'on nomme communément les « tsarines », même si elles n'ont aucun lien avec la famille impériale. Car ces femmes, qui régnèrent sans partage dans la Russie du XVIII e - siècle des impératrices -, continuent ... more »

On the morning of February 12, 1908, six cars from four different countries lined up in the swirling snow of Times Square, surrounded by a frenzied crowd of 250,000. The seventeen men who started the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic Norwegian outdoorsman ... more »

As never before, the American public is fascinated by how the United States government gathers intelligence. And there is no one better than Admiral Stansfield Turner to reveal the politics and personal issues that can interfere with how the President of the United States deals with the intelligence ... more »

Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns ... more »

CHAPTER ONE THE BOOK OF NUMBERS Brielle, New Jersey, September 1991 Bill Nagle's life changed the day a fisherman sat beside him in a ramshackle bar and told him about a mystery he had found lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Against his better judgment, that fisherman promised to tell Nagle ... more »

A major work of documentary history-the brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath. The transition from John F. Kennedy to Johnson was arguably the most ... more »