European History Books

Writing with the pace of a fantasy novelist, Tuchman drops the reader into a world of rogue mercenary armies, double-dealing popes, peasant rebellions, and a plague that wiped out half of Europe. It’s a thrilling ride through a century where everything that could go wrong did.

One lost manuscript. One daring book hunter. One massive "swerve" in human history. Greenblatt takes us back to 1417 to show how a single poem rescued from a dusty monastery shelf gave birth to the modern world.

Bringing the terrifying noise, smoke, and ferocity of the 53-day siege of Constantinople to life, Crowley delivers a thrilling logbook of 15th-century warfare, showing how brilliant engineering and military willpower finally breached the world's most impregnable walls.

This seamless slam-dunk of epic history-telling from the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon is an 18th-century puzzle of high seas intrigue, a fateful shipwreck, mutiny, and a real-life Lord of the Flies descent into mayhem