World History/WWII

Hearts and Minds

A People's History of Counterinsurgency

Edited by Hannah Gurman

Paperback Original: From Malaya and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, leading scholars and journalists unravel the myth and challenge the efficacy of counterinsurgency

The Coup

1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

Ervand Abrahamian

From a leading historian of the Middle East, a lucid account of the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran and how it paved the way to today’s diplomatic gridlock


Big History

From the Big Bang to the Present

Cynthia Stokes Brown

New Edition: Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

Japan in the Modern World

John W. Dower

A stunning rumination on the historical relationship between Japan and the United States, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian

The Indispensable Zinn

The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"

Howard Zinn

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A concise and accessible volume of the seminal writings of the late Howard Zinn, "the historian who made history" (The Nation)

Side by Side

Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A groundbreaking "dual narrative" history of Israel and Palestine which offers a new paradigm for the teaching of history in conflict and post-conflict situations

Koretsky

The Soviet Photo Poster: 1930-1984

Erika Wolf

A groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated introduction to Viktor Koretsky, the acknowledged master of Soviet propaganda art

World War II

The Unseen Visual History

The Caen Memorial

An eye-opening global history of World War II in the form of a lavishly illustrated, full-color historical atlas, including previously unpublished rare photographs

A People's History of World War II

The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It

Edited by Marc Favreau

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The most stirring interviews, photographs, letters, oral histories, and other first-person accounts of World War II—a major new resource for classroom teachers and general readers alike

The Road to Tahrir Square

Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak

Lloyd C. Gardner

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The story of the United States’ intimate and pivotal relationship with the Arab world’s largest nation over the course of six decades, from the eminent historian of American foreign policy

Political Awakenings

Conversations with History

Harry Kreisler

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Stories of insight and inspiration from twenty leaders and thinkers who have changed the world—including Howard Zinn, Amira Hass, and
Ron Dellums

Three Kings

The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II

Lloyd C. Gardner

Now in paperback:The “absorbing and often provocative” (Booklist) backstory to America’s current predicament in the Middle East, with frightening relevance for the distant prospect of peace and stability in the region today

Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists

André Schiffrin

Now in paperback: The captivating World War II–era political cartoons of Dr. Seuss alongside the work of legendary cartoonists Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, and others

Blood and Faith

The Purging of Muslim Spain

Matthew Carr

Now in paperback: A New York Times Editor’s Choice and a major new historical exposé of the tragic fate of Muslim Spain, with haunting resonance for the present

Bombing Civilians

A Twentieth-Century History

Edited by Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn B. Young

Now in paperback: the first comprehensive historical analysis of one of the great horrors of modern times, hailed by Frida Berrigan as "a vividly detailed and profoundly troubling history of war fought from the air"

War Is Beautiful

An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War

James Neugass

The newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—All Quiet on the Western Front for the Spanish Civil War

Bitter Chocolate

The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Carol Off

A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry – “Blood Diamonds” for chocolate

Challenging China

Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

Edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A fascinating and complex insiders' portrait of contemporary life inside China, written by dissidents, activists, and journalists—in time for the historic 2008 Olympics, when the world's eyes will be on China

The Infernal Machine

A History of Terrorism

Matthew Carr

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and Al Qaeda in historical context

Terra Nullius

A Journey Through No One's Land

Sven Lindqvist

A provocative journey through the dark history of the creation of white Australia, exposing the hidden genocide of the Aboriginal people

The Abandonment of the Jews

America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945

David S. Wyman

A handsome new paperback edition of the bestselling classic on America’s response to the Nazi assault on European Jews

Iran

A People Interrupted

Hamid Dabashi

NOW IN PAPERBACK a deeply informed political and cultural narrative of a country thrust into the international spotlight

The Darker Nations

A People's History of the Third World

Vijay Prashad

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor

Lessons of Empire

Imperial Histories and American Power

Edited by Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore

A timely exploration of one of the big geopolitical questions of our time

The Mexican Revolution

Adolfo Gilly

NOW IN PAPERBACK The classic account of the Mexican Revolution from the acclaimed author

The Condor Years

How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

John Dinges

The headline-grabbing story of the covert, international “anti-terrorist” network responsible for South America’s worst human rights abuses

Historians in Trouble

Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

Jon Wiener

NOW IN PAPERBACK The revealing and much-discussed look behind the scenes of recent headline-grabbing controversies in the history profession

The New American Empire

A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

The historical roots of contemporary America’s foreign policy, by today’s leading scholars

The Pinochet File

A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Peter Kornbluh

NOW IN PAPERBACK Updated with newly declassified documents, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003

History Lessons

How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History

Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward

NOW IN PAPERBACK The widely contrasting approaches to U.S. history that can be found in the textbooks of other nations

Cold War Triumphalism

The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism

Edited by Ellen Schrecker

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book that is provoking a major reexamination of the legacy of the cold war

The Vatican to Vegas

A History of Special Effects

Norman M. Klein

A Race Against Death

Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust

David S. Wyman, Rafael Medoff

The unknown story of the man who led America’s most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust, from the bestselling historian

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

A People’s History of Ancient Rome

Michael Parenti

Intrigue, murder, and class struggle at the heart of the Roman Empire

The Origins of Nazi Violence

Enzo Traverso

A leading social scientist’s depiction of the Holocaust as the culmination of liberal, European modernization

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom

Noam Chomsky

From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky’s early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics

Crimes of War

Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan

A controversial look at wartime atrocities, by a group of distinguished historians

A History of Bombing

Sven Lindqvist

A daring literary and historical look at the ideologies of war and violence, by the author of “Exterminate All the Brutes”

American Power and the New Mandarins

Historical and Political Essays

Noam Chomsky

Back in print, the seminal work by “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times)

Another Century of War?

Gabriel Kolko

The definitive condemnation of America’s reckless foreign policies, by “the foremost modern historian of war” (Guardian)

Barbed Wire

A Political History

Olivier Razac

From the devil’s rope to no man’s land, “A vital work of cultural criticism” (Publishers Weekly)

The Voice of Memory

Interviews, 1961–1987

Primo Levi

The Holocaust survivor, writer, and scientist Primo Levi, in his own words.

Muhammad

M. Maxine Rodinson

Back in print, a definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam

Revolutionaries

Eric Hobsbawm

Back in print, groundbreaking essays from “the best known living historian in the world” (The Times, London)

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Richard H. Minear

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

Fear in Chile

Lives Under Pinochet

Patricia Politzer

NOW IN PAPERBACK first-person accounts of life in Pinochet’s Chile—“the perfect epitaph to a violent dictatorship” (Library Journal).

Antiquities

Postwar French Thought, Volume III

Edited by Nicole Loraux, Gregory Nagy, and Laura Slatkin

The third volume in the “timely and ambitious” (Boston Book Review) New Press Postwar French Thought Series

The Essential E.P.Thompson

E.P. Thompson

Edited by Dorothy Thompson

The most comprehensive selection of writings from the acclaimed historian.

The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945

Pierre Ayçoberry

A balanced, through study of Germany during the Nazi years, by the celebrated author of The Nazi Question.

Bandits

Eric Hobsbawm

Back in print, the groundbreaking classic on robber-rebel from "the best known living historian in the world." (The Times, London)

Hitler’s Exiles

Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America

Edited by Mark M. Anderson

War of the Century

When Hitler Fought Stalin

Laurence Rees

The powerful follow-up to The Nazis incorporates previously unpublished material to provide new insight into Hitler's invasion of Russia.

The German Army and Genocide

Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and Other Civilians, 1939–1944

Hamburg Institute for Social Research

An astonishing visual exposé of the German Army's crimes in World War II. 

Industry and Empire

The Birth of the Industrial Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

An updated edition of the classic study of the Industrial Revolution by "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic).

Uncommon People

Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm

An engaging and eclectic collection of essays from "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London)

The French and Their Revolution

Selected Writings

Richard Cobb

Edited by David Gilmour

Illuminating essays on daily life during the French Revolution from a master historian.

The Nazis

A Warning from History

Laurence Rees

PAPERBACK A new edition of the lavishly illustrated companion to the BBC documentary, with rare archival material and photographs documenting the reality of daily life in Nazi Germany

Universities and Empire

Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War

Edited by Christopher Simpson

A shocking examination of the politics of intellectual life during the Cold War.

The Romantics

England in a Revolutionary Age

E.P. Thompson

Now in paperback, the great historian's provocative account of the rise of Romanticism.

Rebellion in Chiapas

An Historical Reader

John Womack Jr.

An acclaimed historian of Mexico traces the roots of the current crisis in Chiapas using primary source documents.

Bay of Pigs Declassified

The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

Edited by Peter Kornbluh

Now available for the first time, "one of the most secret documents of the Cold War" (New York Times): the government's own report of the Bay of Pigs fiasco

Embracing Defeat

Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.

On History

Eric Hobsbawm

Esays on the study and practice of history from "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic).

One Hundred Years of Socialism

The West European Left in the Twentieth Century

Donald Sassoon

A brilliant look at alternatives to capitalism.

France Under the Germans

Collaboration and Compromise

Philippe Burrin

The first major study of French citizens' behavior during the Nazi occupation.

Histories

French Constructions of the Past, Postwar French Thought, Volume 1

Edited by Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt

The first volume in a major series on postwar French thought.

Looking Left

Socialism in Europe After the Cold War

Edited by Donald Sassoon

Europe's most respected historians turn their attention to the fate of the Left of Europe.

Shadows of a Childhood

A Novel

Elisabeth Gille

PAPERBACK For everyone who read Suite Française and wants to know more, a beautiful reissue of Irène Némirovsky’s daughter’s searing story of her parents’ disappearance

The Cold War and the University

Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn

Leading intellectuals discuss the effects of the Cold War on academic freedom, intellectual life, and dissent in the academy.

Intimacy and Terror

Soviet Diaries of the 1930s

Edited by Véronique Garros, Natalia Korenevskaya, and Thomas Lahusen

The private diary accounts of daily life in Russia at the height of Stalinism

The Skull Measurer's Mistake

And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

Sven Lindqvist

Enlightening stories of courageous eighteenth- and nineteenth- century men and women who defied the racial prejudices of their communities.

"Exterminate All the Brutes"

One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Sven Lindqvist

PAPERBACK A new edition of the brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa

"The Good War"

An Oral History of World War II

Studs Terkel

This first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book features a new Preface by the author.

Civil Wars

From L.A. to Bosnia

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Century of War

Politics, Conflict, and Society Since 1914

Gabriel Kolko

The True Cost of Conflict

Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Edited by Michael Cranna

Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

A moving and insightful look into the daily struggles of a cross-section of Mexicans.

Subversion as Foreign Policy

The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

Audrey R. Kahin, George McT. Kahin

Russia/USSR/Russia

The Drive and Drift of a Superstate

Moshe Lewin

A groundbreaking examination of continuity and change in Russian history.

Making History

Writings on History and Culture

E.P. Thompson

The leading historian's essays on history and literature, published posthumously.

The War

A Memoir

Marguerite Duras

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

A Moment of War

A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

Laurie Lee

A New York Times notable book of the year, the autobiography of a young Englishman in the Spanish Civil War.

South Africa and the United States

The Declassified History

Edited by Kenneth Mokoena

A collection of primary source materials that reveal the secret U.S. policy debates over South Africa.

Japan at War

An Oral History

Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook

PAPERBACK A timely fifteenth anniversary reissue of a “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) that portrays the Japanese experience during World War II in all its complexity

Caribbean Slave Society and the Economy

A Student Reader

Edited by Hilary Beckles

Customs in Common

Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

E.P. Thompson

Cultures of War

Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

John W. Dower

Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning historian John Dower returns with a groundbreaking comparison of the four definitive acts of violence in our time
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