Bad Days in History
National Geographic author Michael Farquhar uncovers an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the year. From Caligula's…
The Guns of August
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of…
Savage Continent
Savage Continent is the chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post–World War II Europe for years to come.
Collapse
A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations such as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland by tracing…
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns.
A Peace to End All Peace
All of the conflicts and challenges in the Middle East are rooted in the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First…