"What Is Shakespeare?" gathers varied and fascinating material related to Shakespeare’s plays. Ted van Griethuysen’s thoughtful analytical text "What Is Shakespeare?" concentrates on the performance and poetry of Shakespeare’s best... Read More

Stalin: if you’re Russian and of a certain age, his name causes your blood to run Siberian cold. It’s not for nothing that Uncle Joe’s twenty-four-year reign (1929–1953) is frequently called the “other Holocaust”—upwards of... Read More

Andrew R. M. Smith’s comprehensive study of two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman, and of the sport of boxing during his long career, is "No Way but to Fight". Foreman, a poor middle school dropout, discovered his punch on the... Read More

"Rise Up" is full of inspiring stories about young people who overcame the odds and realized their impossible dreams. With confidence that young people can change their lives and impact the world, this book introduces more than two dozen... Read More

"Prisoners of the Third Reich" views history through the experiences of a brave but normal man and his fellow soldiers who survived the horrors of the Nazi war machine. W. E. Welbourne’s historical biography "Prisoners of the Third... Read More

Straightforward and exciting, Nancy Love: WASP Pilot is the breezy young adult biography of a little-known home front heroine. Sarah Byrn Rickman’s biography for young readers, "Nancy Love", focuses on a groundbreaking pilot who... Read More

"General in Command" is a fascinating biography of an overlooked but great American soldier. Michael M. Van Ness’s "General in Command" is a fantastic biography of one of World War II’s less familiar, but brilliant, leaders. The man... Read More