iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
Children of Ash and Elm
Neil Price
From a distinguished archaeologist, the definitive history of the Vikings—from arts and culture to politics and cosmology. “A thrilling read.” — Wall ...
Franklin and Winston
Jon Meacham
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ), Pulitzer Priz...
The Coldest War
James Brady
The author and Korean War veteran vividly describes his time on the frontlines in this military memoir: "war reporting at its best . . . reads like a ...
1968
Mark Kurlansky
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive loo...
Paradise General
Dave Hnida
This “wonderfully moving and frequently very funny…guide through the confounding, terrifying, and strangely exhilarating world inhabited by the U.S. m...
The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city ...
Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of New...
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
The definitive history of Hitler and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last ...
The Broken Heart of America
Walter Johnson
A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis. "A masterpiece that both haunts an...
Alix and Nicky
Virginia Rounding
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal stu...
Gangsters of Capitalism
Jonathan M. Katz
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary li...
The Wild Blue
Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage , carries us into the skies of World War II aviation, flying aboard the...
A World Lit Only by Fire
William Manchester
An absorbing history of the Middle Ages from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion . From tales of chivalrous knights to...
The Gales of November
John U. Bacon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025 Bookpage • Best Books of 2025 "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classi...
The Devil's Diary
Robert K. Wittman & David Kinney
The Devil's Diary is the true account of the disappearance of Alfred Rosenberg's journal of Nazi ideology that shaped the genesis of the Holocaust. &#...
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 Gunfighters
Bryan Burrough
Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg “One hell of a good read.” — The New York Times “One of the most important books written on the American West i...
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
The legendary and harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackelton’s 1914 shipwreck on Antarctic ice – and how his leadership rescued his crew &#x...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and "one of the most important works of history of our time" ( The New York Times )...
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...