iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
Embers of War
Fredrik Logevall
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARS Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of Americ...
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
Garrett M. Graff
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and ter...
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for ...
The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first d...
The Jew Store
Stella Suberman
"For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should make also a life." --Aaron Bronson In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry go...
Carthage Must Be Destroyed
Richard Miles
The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." ( The Economist ) Drawing on a wealth of ...
Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority a...
Stilwell and the American Experience in China
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern Ch...
Indigenous Continent
Pekka Hämäläinen
NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews Longlisted for the Andrew C...
Ghosts of Hiroshima
Charles Pellegrino
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERON “Not since Titanic have I found a powerful, heartbreaking, and in...
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who w...
The Gales of November
John U. Bacon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025 Bookpage • Best Books of 2025 "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classi...
The Mexican Revolution
Stuart Easterling
"An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contributio...
The American Revolution
Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly ill...
Russia
Philip Longworth
"A gripping and supremely readable book . . . combines shrewd analysis of Russia's . . . appetite for empire with a wonderful narrative pace and fine ...
The Nine
Gwen Strauss
THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" ― Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author’s gr...
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Jack El-Hai
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, acco...
Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became th...
So Very Small
Thomas Levenson
“An elegant, wide-ranging history” ( The New York Review of Books ) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease that...
Lions of Kandahar
Rusty Bradley & Kevin Maurer
“A raw and authentic war story about untamed Green Berets in action.”—Dalton Fury, New York Times bestselling author of Kill Bin Lad...