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

New York, NY: Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. "D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the invasion from June 6, 1944, up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the..... More

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Co., 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, "The Second World War" is the epic, authoritative work on the defining event of the twentieth century, taking us from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the first battle in August 1939 on the borders of Manchuria to V-J Day six years later. Antony Beevor's wide lens lets us see the..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Robert Stone (1937-2015) a writer whose works have gone on to define and inspire modern day American contemporary fiction on a Cormac McCarthy-like level most notably with: ‘Dog Soliders’ 1974, ‘A Flag For Sunrise’ 1981, and last but not least ‘Damascus Gate’ 1998. ‘Child of Light’ By Madison Smartt Bell, is to this day the most intimate, authoritative biography on Stone. Fellow..... 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

New York, NY: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "This unprecedented volume considers the profound and enduring impact of Spain's history, art, and culture on one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Cristobal Balenciaga. Hailed as "fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Balenciaga created a revolutionary oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris..... More

New York, NY: Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Viceroy of Ouidah begins with the reunion of the numerous descendants of Francisco Felix da Silva- a poor white Brazilian who, Bruce Chatwin tells us, "was by the 1830s the richest man in West Africa....He died a ruined man."...The Viceroy of Ouidah tells...of the man who became the "best friend" of the King of Dahomey, was..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931; 1938. First Edition, Second Printing; First Edition. Hardcovers. One of two volumes signed by author Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. "Twenty long years have passed since my father was laid in the ground, yet had these years been only days the memory of that tragic event could not be more vivid. In the lovely month of April- month of soft green..... More

London, England: Macmillan, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Published in 1968, Robert Conquest’s “The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties” was among the very first legitimate biographical undertakings to illustrate the depraved and truly horrifying “purges” put into action by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Works like Conquest’s “Great Terror” were necessary at the time of publication, and still are necessary now; too few know about the horrors of..... More

London, England: William Collins, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Cornwell, known for his novels: “The Last Kingdom”, “Sharpe’s Eagle”, and “The Winter King” delivers an unparalleled telling of the battle of Waterloo. His fast-paced, kinetic, raw style of prose gives Cornwell’s retelling of Waterloo a visceral brutality, and immerses the reader in all the chaotic nightmare that is battle, along with beautiful historic portraits of Waterloo. Whether you’re a history buff..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In this fascinating new study, the work of the greatest of decorative woodcarvers is seen from a new perspective- through the eyes of a fellow carver. Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is famous for giving wood "the loose and airy lightness of flowers." His flamboyant cascades of lifelike blossoms, fruits, foliage, birds, and fish dominate English interiors of the late..... More

London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation. However..... More