10 BEST BOOKS ‧ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‧?2011 ? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post ‧ The New Yorker ‧ Chicago Tribune ‧ The Economist ‧ Nancy Pearl, NPR ‧ Bloomberg
As America descended into Civil War, British loyalties were torn between support for the North, which was against slavery, and defending the South, which portrayed itself as bravely fighting for its i
10 BEST BOOKS ‧ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‧?2011 ? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post ‧ The New Yorker ‧ Chicago Tribune ‧ The Economist ‧ Nancy Pearl, NPR ‧ Bloomberg
The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocr
To celebrate the bicentenary of Queen Victoria’s birth, Fit for a Queen will tell the story of how Queen Victoria transformed Buckingham Palace from a lavish bachelor pad to an iconic symbol of
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to remain in that preeminent position for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically
Part of the 'Making History Series' -- 'Waterloo' is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world -- Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
