http://cms.ebooks.com/HistoryFeatured History titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2012 Ebooks Corporation Ltd5/16/2012 12:48:07 AMhttp://cms.ebooks.com/753702/the-borgias/dumas-alexandre/20121605.7537025/16/2012 12:48:07 AMNobody has ever detailed history's most ruthless rulers and tyrants with as much flair and passion as French writer Alexandre Dumas. This gripping exposition of the Borgias, the Italian clan that earned notoriety as one of the world's most power-hungry and corrupt families, is a pulse-pounding read that fans of the true crime genre will find hard to put down.http://cms.ebooks.com/678135/killing-lincoln/o-reilly-bill-dugard-martin/20121605.6781355/16/2012 12:48:07 AM A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. Presidenthttp://cms.ebooks.com/709280/the-long-walk/rawicz-slavomir/20121605.7092805/16/2012 12:48:07 AM Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. After a 3-month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with 6 companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. In June 1941 they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom 9 months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot throhttp://cms.ebooks.com/566585/our-last-best-chance/abdullah-ii-of-jordan-king/20121605.5665855/16/2012 12:48:07 AM A call for peace by the most dynamic leader of the Arab world. At a time of unprecedented upheaval in the Middle East, King Abdullah II of Jordan is almost unique in enjoying widespread popular support. He is the ultimate modern-day monarch, as comfortable at a business conference as he is at a meeting of the Arab League. In this prescient memoir-cum-manifesto, he makes an urgent plea to push for a solution to the Arab-Israeli crisis. He writes with disarming frankness abohttp://cms.ebooks.com/864616/the-one-that-got-away/ryan-chris/20121605.8646165/16/2012 12:48:07 AMA story of extraordinary courage under fire, of narrow escapes, of a battle against the most adverse physical conditions, and, above all, of one man's courageous refusal to lie down and diehttp://cms.ebooks.com/570780/in-the-garden-of-beasts/larson-erik/20121605.5707805/16/2012 12:48:07 AM “Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”— New York Times Book Review    Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.   The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first http://cms.ebooks.com/730530/drift/maddow-rachel/20121605.7305305/16/2012 12:48:07 AM"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust­ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, http://cms.ebooks.com/895373/the-origins-of-the-british-the-new-prehistory-of-britain/oppenheimer-stephen/20121605.8953735/16/2012 12:48:07 AM Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7,000 and 3,000http://cms.ebooks.com/799216/manhunt/bergen-peter-l/20121605.7992165/16/2012 12:48:07 AM The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc ., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. Now, in Manhunt, Bergen picks http://cms.ebooks.com/409274/the-art-of-war/tzu-sun-giles-lionel/20121605.4092745/16/2012 12:48:07 AMInspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC. Its 13 chapters are each dedicated to an aspect of warfare. Praised as a definitive work on the art of strategy and tactic, The Art of War now finds its greatest application in the world of business and management.http://cms.ebooks.com/193593/the-devil-in-the-white-city/larson-erik/20121605.1935935/16/2012 12:48:07 AM Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition. http://cms.ebooks.com/583566/the-history-of-london/besant-walter/20121605.5835665/16/2012 12:48:07 AMThis fascinating biography of one of the world's most famous cities was originally published in the early 20th Century. It chronicles the life of London from its days as an early settlement through to more modern times. Including over 60 images, photographs, engravings and drawings, this excellent book is a must-have for those who live in the city, have visited - or plan to visit - at some point, or those who want to know the story of England's capital.http://cms.ebooks.com/844807/rasputin/shukman-harold/20121605.8448075/16/2012 12:48:07 AM Gregory Rasputin features in Russian history as a malign and destructive force, a man with an unhealthy influence on the Empress Alexandra and undue power in Russian politics. Yet his purposes were ostensibly beneficent. An uneducated peasant, he left Siberia to become a wandering 'holy man' and soon acquired a reputation as a healer. The empress was desperate to find a cure for haemophilia from which her son Alexei suffered, and in 1905 Rasputin was presented at court. His positive effect http://cms.ebooks.com/317488/the-fires-of-jubilee/oates-stephen-b/20121605.3174885/16/2012 12:48:07 AM The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War. http://cms.ebooks.com/530519/unbroken/hillenbrand-laura/20121605.5305195/16/2012 12:48:07 AMOn a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.  So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini.  I