New York, NY: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. As the front flap of Anne Applebaum's (b. 1964) widely esteemed, exhaustively researched "Gulag: A History" appropriately notes, "The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972 with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic oral history of the Soviet camps, 'The Gulag Archipelago' [TMB Item #4741]. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering..... More

London, England: Viking/ Penguin Random House UK, 2015. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Antony Beevor. "On 16 December 1944, (Adolf) Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc- tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. "On August 23, 1942, (Adolf) Hitler's 16th Panzer Division halted on the banks of the Volga (River). To their right, the city of Stalingrad blazed from the first of General (Baron W.) von Richthofen's air raids, which ultimately killed 40,000 civilians. Many German soldiers thought the war against Russia was won. But in Stalin's namesake city on..... More

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. "From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. "My hero is Man the Discoverer. The world we now view from the literate West- the vistas of time, the land and the seas, the heavenly bodies and our own bodies, the plants and animals, history and human societies past and present- had to be opened for us by countless Columbuses. In the deep recesses of the past..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition Thus (Specially Rebound). Three-Quarter Leather , Cloth & Gilt. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is one of the supreme classics of the English language, one of the first & still greatest biographies, as Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire is to history. First published in 1791, this rich & evocative account of the great British Man of..... More

London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In the early 1800s a Brazilian slave trader sailed to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, entered into a bizarre history of relations with its monarchs, acquired wealth and a position of outlandish influence but died a poor man. Bruce Chatwin's research into this curious story was abruptly thwarted when, on his second trip to Dahomey (by then called Benin), he..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. "The BUK book offers a unique look at a phenomenon: Charles Bukowski- BUK- the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd jobs man, and lowly factotum, became the best-known "underground" writer in the English language. Jean Genet called him "the best poet in America." His work- raw, crude, heartwarming, and hilarious- has inspired imitators, emulators, sycophants, and detractors. Until now, everything written..... More

Washington DC: National Geographic Partners, LLC, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "Come with National Geographic on a fascinating journey through ancient Greece: the land of marathons and wrestling, debate and city-states, Plato, Socrates, and Alexander the Great. In this lavishly illustrated book, historian Diane Harris Cline creates a dynamic and engaging portrait of politics, social life, inventions, conquests, ideas, art, and more. These vivid pages are filled with amazing history, gripping..... More

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Robert Conquest. Originally published in 1968, Robert Conquest’s ‘The Great Terror’ is a critique of Stalinism, and the era of Stalin’s rule over the USSR. A highly respected British poet and Sovietologist, Conquest (1917-2015) lays out a firm rebuke of Joseph Stalin’s regime and gives a comprehensive history of the formation of the Soviet Union and the..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass. Yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, generating restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade, to explore, and often to settle. By the fifteenth century Europe was a driving world force, but the origins of its success have until..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Already hailed in Europe as a masterpiece, Oriana Fallaci's powerful new novel is the dramatic love story of a man and a woman who are caught in the conflicts of political struggle and are moved inexorably toward a confrontation with death. In A Man Fallaci draws a dynamic portrait of the unparalleled hero of the Greek resistance, Alexander Panagoulis..... More