The history you don't know is the most fascinating of all.

Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write laws, wage wars and even conduct personal relationships.

"Africo è il nome di un paese montano che una alluvione, nel 1951, travolse in una frana di terra e di pietre e rese inabitabile. In questo libro di Corrado Stajano si racconta la storia di una comunità di contadini e di pastori che un diluvio sradicò e costrinse a migrare in un nuovo Africo, sorto dal nulla in riva al mare. Un evento quasi impercettibile, tra i mille che la cronaca italiana accumula sospesi tra catastrofi bibliche e tecnologie ad alto rischio, smottamenti, terrore organizzato, degradazione sociale, malgoverno. Ma con questa particolarità: che nella sua "dinamica", come direbbe il verbale di un brigadiere, la vicenda di Africo illumina di una luce improvvisa i segreti di una cultura e di un modo di vita, i rapporti tra sudditi e potenti, tra società locale e governo centrale, e l'inganno e la sopraffazione che stanno alla base di un patto sociale coatto; e insieme, nonostante tutto, la speranza e la volontà di opposizione e di lotta di gruppi e di singoli il cui coraggio solitario sollecita qualcosa di più della nostra ammirazione..

This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Sooner State. Read all about the Trail of Tears in Tahlequah. Find out why George W. McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma in 1950. Try to solve the mystery of Karen Silkwood's suspicious death in 1974.

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.

June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous dates in world history, and, as David Howarth shows, a defining date in countless personal histories. In this intimate chronicle, the 7,000 vessels, 12,000 aircraft, and 750,000 men committed on D-Day are taken for granted. Instead, we see D-Day through the eyes of the men on the ground as Howarth weaves together the larger story of the beginning of the battle of Normandy with the stories of the beachhead itself. The scope of Howarth's vision—focusing on England and France, on sky, beach, and hedgerow, on divisions and squads—makes Dawn of D-Day a franker portrayal than any other of the turning-point of the war on the Western Front and the greatest amphibious operation in history.

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular.

The first comprehensive look at nature's role on military history from the author of A Pestilence on Pennsylvania Avenue.

MSNBC'S Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presidency, "a searing indictment" (Kirkus) argued with depth, wit, and piercing insight