iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
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...
D-Day
Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epi...
American Revolutions
Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor is featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on PBS "Excellent…deserves high praise. Mr....
Origin Story
David Christian
This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights . . . into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents...
Globemaster Down
Tod Robberson
Just in time for the 75th anniversary, the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold Wa...
A People's History of World War II
Marc Favreau
A collection of World War II writings and images by Studs Terkel, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Howard Zinn, Nelson Peery, Elisabeth Freund, and others....
Dark Sun
Richard Rhodes
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive,...
Pax
Tom Holland
From an award-winning historian, the definitive account of the golden age of Rome—an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. “Rarely has...
The Civil War
DK
A fully revised and updated guide to America’s bloodiest and most divisive conflict – 165 years on. Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintin...
The Day of Battle
Rick Atkinson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson...
The Guns at Last Light
Rick Atkinson
THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER One of The Washington Post 's Top 10 Books of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 The magnificent ...
Friends Divided
Gordon S. Wood
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times -bestselling and Pul...
All the President's Men
Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
50th Anniversary Edition—now with a new foreword on what Watergate means today. “The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influentia...
Cannae
Adrian Goldsworthy
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat. “Goldsworthy is the preeminent military his...
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. ...
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 American Story
David M. Rubenstein
Cofounder of The Carlyle Group, patriotic philanthropist, and bestselling author of The American Experiment David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a swe...
Roman Warfare
Adrian Goldsworthy
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire. “Gold...
The Proud Tower
Barbara W. Tuchman
The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” ( The New York Ti...
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...