From spies, assassins, and dirty tricks in WWII to a revealing new biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Crazy Horse, Custer, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we have a history book for every reader this year. Check out our must-reads of 2023, including new books by Tom Clavin, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Susan Ronald, “Legends of the Old West” host Chris Wimmer, and many more!
The Last Outlaws
by Tom Clavin
Luck of the Draw
by Frank Murphy
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
The Summer of 1876
by Chris Wimmer
The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous—or infamous—moments of their lives. Those individuals were Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James. Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876 is an easily digestible narrative that weaves together the timelines of the events that made these men legends and illustrates the historical importance of that summer.
God Save Benedict Arnold
by Jack Kelly
The Dirty Tricks Department
by John Lisle
Unlikely Heroes
by Derek Leebaert
The Windsors at War
by Alexander Larman
Hitler's Aristocrats
by Susan Ronald
The Sniper
by Jim Lindsay
First to the Front
by Lorissa Rinehart
Africatown
by Nick Tabor
Follow Me to Hell
by Tom Clavin
The Longest Minute
by Matthew J. Davenport
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. In The Longest Minute, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.