Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951-1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan native (Charles) Bruce Catton (1899-1978) was born only 34 years after the end of the Civil War, and he grew up in a community in Northwest Michigan with veterans of the war sharing their experiences. Catton himself served in the Navy briefly during World War I before becoming a reporter and editor, eventually landing a syndicated column in Washington..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "Claudius was proclaimed Emperor at Rome after the assassination of Caligula in A.D. 41, and his thirteen-year reign included some significant accomplishments. Claudius added Mauretania, Lycia, and Thrace to the Roman Empire and began the systematic conquest of Britain. He extended the rights of Roman citizenship to many provincials and opened the Senate to prominent men from the western provinces..... 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: Macmillan, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. “Since the fairy-tale marriage of the dashing Prince to the blonde and beautiful Lady Diana in July 1981, followed by the birth a year late of Prince William of Wales, the public’s fascination with Great Britain’s Royal Family has continued unabated. And Stephen Barry, personal valet to Prince Charles for the twelve years prior to the Prince’s marriage, was privy to more..... 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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. "She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. At one time she was the most powerful woman in the British Empire, a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, she turned her back on house..... 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: HarperCollins, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I? In the summer of 1914, New York Police Department captain Tom Tunney is preoccupied by Manhattan's raging gang rivalries and has little idea that, halfway around the world, a much more ominous threat to the city is brewing. As Germany teeters..... More

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. “How the [Grateful] Dead…survived to speak to successive generations is the subject of this intensely provocative and personal narrative. Social critic and biographer Carol Brightman, who was active in the political struggles of the era, presents a Whitmanesque tableau of America’s colliding countercultures. Here’s the Dead—with their original fondness for folk, bluegrass, and blues; their immersion in psychedelics;..... More

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope. By exploring the moral sentiments of entire societies and their leaders, and how such attitudes changed under the impact of total war, Burleigh presents readers with a fresh and powerful perspective on a conflict that continues..... 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

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Few personalities from classical antiquity are more familiar yet more poorly grasped than Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.), queen of Egypt. The subject of a vast repertory of post-antique popular culture, Cleopatra is generally thought of as an unfit ruler and wanton seductress--an image first created by Roman propaganda. In fact, she was an accomplished diplomat, administrator, naval commander, linguist (she was..... 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