History and Current Events
August 2022
Recent Releases
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
by Patrick Radden Keefe

The prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author presents twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker that form a deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
by David I. Kertzer

Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vatican scholar paints a new, dramatic portrait of what Pope Pius XII, one of the most controversial popes in Church history, did and did not do during WWII as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europes Jews.
We Carry Their Bones: The Search For Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
by Erin H. Kimmerle

Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
by Ian Morris

The critically acclaimed author of Why the West Rules looks back at the ten-thousand-year history of Britains relationship to Europe, and how it has changed both in a globalized world and in the wake of Brexit 
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
by R. J. Overy

Britain's leading military historian reassesses World War II and its aftermath, arguing that it was the culmination of a century-long campaign of global imperial expansion and not just a military conflict between the Allied and Axis states. 
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
by Brandon Presser

The perfect hideaway from British authorities in 1808, Pitcairn Island harbored fugitives and, after two decades, devolved into a real-life Lord of the Flies and, to this day, its diabolical past still looms over the islands 48 residents, descendants of the original mutineers. 
France: An Adventure History
by Graham Robb

The author of the New York Times best-seller Parisians presents a unique journey through French history as told through his own experiences and discoveries while living, working and traveling in France. 
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
by John Wood Sweet

A riveting historical drama that tells the story of the first rape trial on record in American history and the fault lines of class privilege and gender bias that it exposed, showing how much has changed over two centuries and how much has not.
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