Examines the notorious Nazi's life.

It is difficult to keep in mind that the era of illegal abortions ended only 27 years ago.

Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy...

In Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and i...

This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature.

The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced i...

This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the co...

These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in the six weeks befor...

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for the dozens of fair...

This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson ...

One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) pr...

Meyers illuminates the brief and troubled life of the talented British short-story writer, and re...

This memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

Based on interviews with forty American and Filipino survivors who-battling hunger, dysentery, ma...

Bursting onto the pop music scene during the British electronic pop craze at the beginning of the...

An updated version of the classic, definitive account of the Burma campaign in World War 11.

Infamous for corruption during his reign and for his marriage to the sexually voracious empress T...

An account of Richmond during the Civil War.

The Prussian general and military theoretician Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz spent much of...

Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.

This biography provides a redemptive view of the bloody career of Roman general and consul Lucius...

The remarkably effective submarines (U-boats) of the German Navy devastated the Allies during the...

The many factors that led to Japan's participation in World War II, and the horrifying battles th...

The World War II commander largely responsible for Russia's victories at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kurs...

This fascinating, authoritative biography traces the extraordinary rise and preipitous fall of Ad...

Revered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story...

Tap dance innovators and stars Harold and Fayard Nicholas are the focus of this biography that no...

Sheaffer's two-volume biography of American platwright Eugene O'Neill-the second volume of which ...

Illustrated with twenty-five reproductions of Pollock's paintings, the book looks into the passio...

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror an...

From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J...

A definitive biography of film legend Gary Cooper

Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa t...

The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the s...

Schaff, a Union soldier, gives an eyewitness account of the Confederate retreat and defeat in 186...

This definitive volume celebrates the harmonica's illustrious history, focusing on every musical ...

Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a f...

As musically creative as his performances are destructive, the Who's main man gets the full biogr...

Riccards focuses on how the abilities, goals, and personalities of presidents have shaped the the...

Legendary soprano Maria Callas, whose singing was as sensational as her life, is the subject of t...

Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American...

This monumental triple biography weaves together the personal and public lives of the triumvirate...

Russian novelist and philospher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for his monumental novels W...

Hardly the buffoon he is frequently made out to be, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was an able poli...

Africa Explored collects the amazing tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism.

The first explorer to reach the South Pole recounts the rigors of his expedition.

What was it like to be part of one of the most famous TV and music groups in pop culture history?...