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1. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times

   Lucy Lethbridge

   The vividly told lives of British servants and the upper crust they served.More

2. The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

   Graham Robb

   How the scientific and technological genius of the Druids created the earliest known accurate map of the world.More

3. Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain

   George Goodwin

   Flodden 1513: the biggest and bloodiest Anglo-Scottish battle. Its causes spanned many centuries; its consequences were as extraordinary as the battle itself.More

4. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

   John V. Fleming

   Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.More

5. The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

   Jonathan Kirsch

   On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dire international consequences.More

6. Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Accout of Life in a Concentration Camp

   Helga Weiss, Francine Prose, Neil Bermel

   The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.More

7. 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

8. Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

   John Stubbs

   “Stubbs [has] a storyteller’s gift for atmosphere and drama.”—Wall Street JournalMore

9. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   Second Edition

   Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More

10. A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    Christopher B. Krebs

    “A model of popular intellectual history. . . . In every way, 
A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement.”—Washington PostMore

11. Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

    Charles King

    “Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic.”
—Peter M. Gianotti, NewsdayMore

12. Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946

    Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt

    “An impressive and rich book that provides much-needed 
attention to Hitler’s other victims.”—Jewish Book WorldMore

13. Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age

    Adrian Johns

    “A superb account of the rise of modern broadcasting.” —Financial TimesMore

14. Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830–1890

    Peter Pagnamenta

    The extraordinary story of the British aristocracy's encounter with American frontier life in the nineteenth century.More

15. The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament

    Herbert Marks

    Volume(s): 1

    A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.More