iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold “One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any int...
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Explorat...
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the fi...
The Zorg
Siddharth Kara
"A book of great importance and one that will likely become a classic." - New York Times Book Review One of The New York Times ' 100 Most Notable Book...
Operation Paperclip
Annie Jacobsen
The fascinating story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51 and Biological War . “This...
Queens and Kings
Lucy Worsley
" Queens & Kings is history with a uniquely personal touch. Warm, insightful, and full of heart, Worsley has distilled a lifetime of personal expe...
President McKinley
Robert W. Merry
Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the...
The Last Battle
Cornelius Ryan
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the Eur...
What We Knew
Eric A. Johnson & Karl-Heinz Reuband
An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the b...
53 Days
Timothy W. Ryback
From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less t...
The Second World Wars
Victor Davis Hanson
A comprehensive account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian and author of The Dying Citizen . “Breathtakingly magisterial.” — W...
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Best Books of August: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads A N...
The Final Solution to the Jewish Question
Dara Horn
From three-time National Jewish Book Award winner Dara Horn, a masterful new work of nonfiction that boldly confronts and dismantles the myths and lie...
Washington's Immortals
Patrick K. O'Donnell
By the award-winning author of Dog Company : a historic account of a Revolutionary War unit's "tactical acumen and human drama . . . co...
The Cauldron
Simon Sebag Montefiore
An essential guide to the making of the modern Middle East from 1900 to the present: a spellbinding history by the New York Times bestselling author o...
Skunk Works
Leo Janos & Ben R. Rich
This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" — New Yo...
Poisoner in Chief
Stephen Kinzer
The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-contro...
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
Robert P. Jones
A New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of White Too Long comes the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493 “full of urgency ...
The Cause
Joseph J. Ellis Ph.D.
New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Should C...
The Second World War
Antony Beevor
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Bee...