iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
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 Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
Douglas Brunt
Instant New York Times Bestseller! Why did one of the world’s most successful business titans, an oil magnate who rivaled the Rockefellers and the Rot...
The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming, G...
A Distant Mirror
Barbara W. Tuchman
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning autho...
The Fourth Turning
William Strauss & Neil Howe
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of ...
The Rise and Fall of Communism
Archie Brown
"A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and co...
History Matters
David McCullough
In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays—many never published before—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling author David Mc...
An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War I...
The Gods of New York
Jonathan Mahler
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticip...
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 ...
1776
David McCullough
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the ye...
Apollo 8
Jeffrey Kluger
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA m...
The Hiroshima Men
Iain MacGregor
An epic, riveting history based on new interviews and research that elucidates the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bom...
Columbus
Laurence Bergreen
From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 vo...
History Year by Year
DK
The entire course of history is revisited in this unique and unforgettable visual guide. The most memorable moments and significant events of each yea...
Behind the Lines
Russell Miller
This is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before--directly by those who took part. Compiled by Russell...
Little Blue Dot
Katherine Dunn
The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled of...
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...
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...
Against All Odds
Alex Kershaw
*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II—all Medal of Honor recipients—from the...