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European History

1. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

   Diane Ackerman

   2008 Orion Book Award
   
   The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

2. Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture

   Judith Coffin, Robert Stacey

   Sixteenth Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume / Prehistory-Present

   Used successfully by over one million students, Western Civilizations is renowned for its balanced presentation, clear prose, and exceptional treatment of the West in a global context.More

3. Pirates in the Age of Sail

   Robert J. Antony

   Pirates in the Age of Sail takes a global perspective to explore the world of pirates between the early sixteenth and middle nineteenth centuries.More

4. The Writings of St. Paul

   Saint Paul, Wayne A. Meeks, John T. Fitzgerald

   Second Edition

   The Second Edition of this perennially popular Norton Critical Edition is based on the Today’s New International Version of Paul’s letters, a new translation that is heralded for its inclusiveness and accuracy in representation of gender.More

5. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo

   Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson

   A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."—National Geographic AdventureMore

6. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

   Richard Alexander Hough, Denis Richards

   A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.More

7. The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

   Peter S. Wells

   The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.More

8. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

   Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

   "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore

9. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

   William Taubman

   Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign AffairsMore

10. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics

    Richard Davenport-Hines

    A startling account of the history of drug abuse, this book forces us to reconsider many of our views on a controversial issue.More

11. The Victorians

    A. N. Wilson

    A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own.More

12. Napoleon's Women

    Christopher Hibbert

    As a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity.More

13. Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

    Peter Gay

    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.More

14. A Secret History of the IRA

    Ed Moloney

    An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest wars—based on unprecedented access to all the players.More

15. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

    Helmut Walser Smith

    One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.More