One of the greatest firsthand accounts of the war in the Pacific. Leckie enlisted in the Marines the week after Pearl Harbor and fought through Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu. The HBO series “The Pacific” was partly based on this book.

The peace conference that ended one war and planted the seeds for the next. MacMillan puts you inside the room where Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau carved up the world map in six chaotic months. Essential reading for understanding why WWII was almost inevitable.

On June 14, 1800, Napoleon's army found itself outnumbered and nearly beaten by the Austrians on the plains of northern Italy. What happened next was one of history’s most dramatic battlefield reversals. Crowdy reconstructs the battle hour by hour from primary sources and demolishes several myths Napoleon himself invented about the day.

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Champion Hill is one of the most consequential, yet least celebrated battles of the American Civil War. Fought in May 1863 on a Mississippi ridge between Grant's army and Pemberton's outnumbered Confederates, the battle sealed the fate of Vicksburg and split the Confederacy in two. Smith is a historian for the National Park Service and the foremost authority on the Vicksburg campaign.

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Four American soldiers fought their way across more than 600 days of combat, from the deserts of North Africa through Italy and into the heart of Nazi Germany, and each earned the Medal of Honor along the way. Kershaw follows them at ground level, from their first battles to their postwar lives under the weight of America's highest military honor. The Wall Street Journal called it "pitch-perfect."

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Thirteen days in October 1962 — Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on a collision course that brought the world closer to nuclear war than it has ever been before or since. Hastings moves between Moscow, Washington, and Havana to tell it from all three sides, putting faces on the generals, diplomats, and ordinary civilians who lived through the most terrifying fortnight of the 20th century.

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Everyone knows Caesar crossed the Rubicon, but Fezzi, a professor of Roman history at the University of Padua, argues it was Pompey's response that actually sealed the Republic's fate. Drawing on Cicero's letters and other primary sources, Fezzi reconstructs the political crisis of 49 BC with scholarly precision. Published by Yale University Press, this is a rigorous academic treatment suitable for readers who want the full complexity of how Rome's republic collapsed.

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