Historic book treasure (world history via fiction and non-fiction)
Explore a treasure trove of historic books blending world history through captivating fiction and non-fiction. Discover timeless tales and insightful accounts that bring the past to life.
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Salammbo (Salambo. French Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
The novel Salammbo (published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries …
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
by Trevor Royle
The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century.
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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. …
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The Borgias and Their Enemies
by Christopher Hibbert
The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. This is the absorbing tale of the family's …
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Murder of a Medici Princess
by Caroline Murphy
Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy. The …
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Pontius Pilate
by Ann Wroe
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Sublime . . . The definitive study of Pilate.”—The Washington Post Book World “A masterwork . . . …
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The City of God
by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
"The human mind can understand truth only by thinking, as is clear from Augustine." --Saint Thomas Aquinas Saint Augustine of Hippo is one of the …
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The Washing Of The Spears
by Donald R. Morris
Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the …
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Green Dolphin Street
by Elizabeth Goudge
The lives of sisters Marianne and Marguerite take very unexpected courses when William, the man they both adore, writes after a ten year absence and …
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Nicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie
A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of …
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Imperial Legend
by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
"By 1825, his popularity waning, the health of his wife becoming more fragile by the day, he decided to remove himself and a bare-bones court …
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Three Lives for Mississippi
by William Bradford Huie
In thc Civil Rights movement, 1964 was the year of Freedom Summer. On June 21, Mississippi, one of the last bastions of segregation in America …
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Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
A powerful narrative which exposes the brutalities and useless suffering caused by war.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
by Thomas Cahill
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages …
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Paris 1919
by Margaret MacMillan
National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur …
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Upton's Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the shocking working conditions endured by immigrants in the early twentieth-century Chicago stockyards and packing.
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The Ancient City
by Fustel de Coulanges
Originally published in 1864 as La Cité Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in …
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
by Franz Werfel
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. …
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The Pool in the Desert
by Sara Jeannette Duncan
In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian …
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The Royals
by Kitty Kelley
The #1 New York Times bestselling, controversial portrait of the British royal family -- as told from behind the palace walls -- for fans of …
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
by Peter Kropotkin
A nonviolent anarchist of the 19th century, Peter Kropotkin offered a revolutionary alternative to Marxism. Although born into the nobility, he worked to subvert the …
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the …
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Hitler and Nazi Germany
by Jackson J. Spielvogel
This text is a brief yet comprehensive survey of the Third Reich based on current research findings and it is written for students and general …
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The Foxfire Book
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether …
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Aztec
by Gary Jennings
The epic tale of an Aztec survivor of the Spanish conquest and his times as a warrior, scribe, travelling merchant, confidant of Motecuhzoma II, and …
