Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold

Stephen Fry

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...

Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman

A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followedThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much ...