iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
The Wreck of the Mentor
Eric Jay Dolin
“An exciting and at times almost unbelievably dramatic story” — Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal New York Times • “The Nonfiction Everyone Will ...
A Spy Alone
Charles Beaumont
'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC 'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator 'Ex...
A Great and Monstrous Thing
Jerry White
This "magisterial history of London" explores the rapidly changing culture and commerce of the eighteenth century in "a book that hums with vitality" ...
Rebel Yell
S. C. Gwynne
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling Civil War biography of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall”...
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
Douglas Brunt
From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most...
Revolution
Eric Metaxas
“Once upon a time there was a REVOLUTION.” There’s never been a nation like the United States of America. It's impossible to imagine the world without...
The Last Hill
Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II. They were known...
The History Buff's Guide to World War II
Thomas R. Flagel
Did you know that neither Hitler nor Stalin graduated from high school? Or that the Allies often employed teenage girls as spies? In The History Buff'...
The Liberator
Alex Kershaw
The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War—now a Netflix original series starring Jose Mig...
America and Iran
John Ghazvinian
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait ( The New York Times...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Shelby Foote
This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and...
Indianapolis
Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” — USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” — The Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” — Kirk...
One Summer
Bill Bryson
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, tran...
Confronting Evil
Bill O'Reilly & Josh Hammer
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! By the #1 bestselling history author in the world, Bill O'Reilly: A dramatic confrontation with good, evil, and ...
Bound for Canaan
Fergus M. Bordewich
"Well written, moving . . . stimulating," this account of racially unified abolitionism "could provide the occasion for a constructive ...
This Vast Enterprise
Craig Fehrman
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise of...
Citizen Soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Euro...
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 ...
The Code Book
Simon Singh
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revea...
Targeted: Beirut
Jack Carr
A Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List Selection The first in a new “authoritative, shocking” (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestsell...