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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. The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli

   Richard Aldous

   The vicious political struggle that electrified Victorian society, brilliantly re-created for a new generation.More

3. Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

   Richard Aldous

   An iconic friendship, an uneasy alliance—a revisionist account of the couple who ended the Cold War.More

4. The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

   Joyce Appleby

   "Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative—and destructive—glory.”—The New York Times Book Review More

5. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

   Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund

   St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.More

6. Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy

   Tommaso Astarita

   "Lucid, evocative and richly detailed."—Jay Parini, author of The Apprentice LoverMore

7. Red Cavalry

   Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.

   "Amazing not only as literature but as biography."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesMore

8. State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda

   Susan Bachrach, Steven Luckert

   A history of Nazi propaganda based on never-before-published posters, rare photographs, and historical artifacts from the USHMM’s groundbreaking exhibition.More

9. A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914–1948

   James Barr

   “A provocative history . . . helps us to understand why the Arab spring is so important and valuable.”—David Ignatius, National InterestMore

10. The Medieval Papacy

    Geoffrey Barraclough

    The medieval papacy is treated as a historical phenomenon developing and changing in response to changing historical circumstances.More

11. Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

    Madison Smartt Bell

    “Fresh . . . solid . . . full of suspense and intrigue.”—Publishers WeeklyMore

12. To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology

    Marina Belozerskaya

    How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.More

13. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

    David Blackbourn

    "Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian KershawMore

14. Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871

    Peter Blair

    "An excellent introduction to an obscure and difficult period." —The EconomistMore

15. Strange Defeat

    Marc Bloch

    A renowned historian and Resistance fighter — later executed by the Nazis — analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940.More