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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 ...

History $14.99 2026-06-02

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...

Military $0.99 2025-11-04

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" ...

Europe $1.99 2013-02-28

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”...

United States $3.99 2014-09-30

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...

History $16.99 2026-05-19

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...

United States $30.99 2026-06-02

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...

History $2.99 2022-11-01

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'...

History $1.99 2012-08-01

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...

History $1.99 2012-10-30

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...

Middle East $1.99 2021-01-26

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...

United States $1.99 1986-11-12

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...

Military $2.99 2018-07-10

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...

United States $1.99 2013-10-01

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 ...

History $2.99 2025-09-09

Bound for Canaan

Fergus M. Bordewich

"Well written, moving . . . stimulating," this account of racially unified abolitionism "could provide the occasion for a constructive ...

United States $1.99 2009-03-17

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...

United States $16.99 2026-04-21

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...

History $3.99 2013-04-23

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 $7.99 2024-04-30

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...

World $1.99 1999-09-14

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...

Military $15.99 2024-09-24

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