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iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History

This Vast Enterprise

Craig Fehrman

A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accura...

United States $16.99 2026-04-21

Lakota America

Pekka Hv§mv§lv§inen

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. "Impressive. . . . Lakota America takes us...

History $1.99 2019-10-22

Valiant Ambition

Nathaniel Philbrick

A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic r...

United States $1.99 2016-05-10

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Brown

The "fascinating" #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West ( The Wal...

Americas $1.99 2012-10-23

Powers and Thrones

Dan Jones

"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really...

Europe $1.99 2021-11-09

The Demon of Unrest

Erik Larson

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln ...

United States $5.99 2024-04-30

Ghosts of Honolulu

Mark Harmon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly  A U.S. naval cou...

History $1.99 2023-11-14

Sundown Towns

James W. Loewen

"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." — The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the...

United States $1.99 2018-07-17

Israel

Omer Bartov

A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion. The di...

Middle East $14.99 2026-04-21

Rasputin

Antony Beevor

"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—Dan Jones, The Sunday Times From one of our most acclaimed historians, a majo...

History $14.99 2026-04-14

With the Old Breed

E.B. Sledge

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece.”— The New York Review of Bo...

History $6.99 2007-05-01

Nothing to Fear

Adam Cohen

"A fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States." — The New York Times With the world currently in the grips of a f...

United States $1.99 2009-01-08

The Secret War Against Hate

Steven J. Ross

From the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, the definitive story of the intrepid activists and spies who fought against a resurg...

United States $16.99 2026-04-28

The Templars

Dan Jones

“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times , Book of th...

Military $7.99 2017-09-19

The Americans at D-Day

John C. McManus

This WWII history delivers "a definitive account" of D-Day as seen through the eyes of American soldiers on the frontlines (Thomas Fleming). June 6, 1...

History $11.99 2013-05-28

The Barn

Wright Thompson

The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , Slate , Vanity Fair , TIME , Buzzfeed , Smithsonian , B...

United States $12.99 2024-09-24

The Deluge

Adam Tooze

A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath—from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown , Cra...

History $2.99 2014-11-13

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Annie Jacobsen

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target...

Military $2.99 2019-05-14

Follow Me to Hell

Tom Clavin

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men b...

United States $2.99 2023-04-04

The British Are Coming

Rick Atkinson

Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American Hi...

United States $12.99 2019-05-14

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