From insights into the mind of history's greatest general to a grunt's-eye view of the gruesome realities of war in the Classical Age, this is a vivid portrait of the daily life of the Tenth Legion.

In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state, in the years leading to the Great War.

Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present...

Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as associated with the political Right and political Left. At the heart of the conflict of visions are questions about the moral and intellectual...