History and Current Events

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Updated March 2, 2026
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Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The damning inside story of Joe Biden's decline while in office - and the desperate...
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis
Paper Book
The government is a vast, complex system that citizens pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It's also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it's made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply...
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Garrett M. Graff
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE 'MASTERPIECE' COMPLETE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB - BY A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 'Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal combination of...
The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642
Jonathan Healey
Paper Book
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAY A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling history about the...
The Thistle and The Rose
Linda Porter
Paper Book
Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice her age, she would learn the skills of...
The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany―and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
Jonathan Freedland
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST A THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master' ...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Shaun Walker
Paper Book
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel
1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe
Peter Fritzsche
Paper Book
A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale, "offering an intriguing perspective on a world at war" (Richard Overy, New York Times-bestselling author of Blood and Ruins)
Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World
Tim Bouverie
Paper Book
A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of Appeasing Hitler 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating'JAMES HOLLAND ...
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Andrew Lownie
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times 'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES 'A damning cannonball of truth through the York ramparts' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Surely has a claim to the title of...
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
Douglas Murray
Paper Book
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is ultimately playing into the hands of a much more...
Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders
James Holland
Paper Book
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War. 'A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account'...
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
Jason Burke
Paper Book
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 ** ** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT AND BBC HISTORY** A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism...

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