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|  | Travels with a Dead Queen by Mary T. Simeti
By following her one-year journey from Germany to Sicily taken in 1194-95, Mary Taylor Simeti tells the story of Constance, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. AUTHOR: Mary T. Simeti
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Rescue of Jerusalem by Henry T. Aubin
In the summer of 701 B.C. Jerusalem faced a siege from Assyrian forces that had razed countless walled cities, pillaging and looting them, dispersing the defeated populations to distant places, and torturing the leaders to death. Had the city perished, the small and fragile Hebrew society would have been severely damaged and the world denied its seminal influence. Judaism's principal offshoots--Christianity and Islam--would not have arisen. Only one monarch responded to Jerusalem's plea for help--Shebitku, the Kushite who ruled Egypt as pharoah of the twenty-fifth dynasty. He dispatched an army of Kushites, black Africans like himself, to challenge the invaders and save the Hebrew capital. AUTHOR: Henry T. Aubin
PUBLISHER: Soho Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin, Michael Prichard
Kazin's classic memoir about growing up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn is a classic description of Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Kazin said he had sought to write something like Whitman's Leaves of Grass or Hart Crane's The Bridge in prose. AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Michael Prichard
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | War in the Modern World by Theodore Ropp
From the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and war; and the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath. AUTHOR: Theodore Ropp
PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Maine Woods by Edward Hoagland, Henry David Thoreau
When he died, Thoreau was working on this book (his last words were moose and Indian ). Published posthumously in 1864, THE MAINE WOODS is a brilliantly evocative journey into the world of Maine's inland wilderness. AUTHOR: Edward Hoagland, Henry David Thoreau
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | London by Peter Ackroyd
The city of London, which has been the setting for many of Peter Ackroyd's novels and biographies, is the subject of this far-ranging portrait. An unorthodox history, LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY takes the city neighborhood by neighborhood and brings the city to life by means of profiles of its citizens--some famous, some not--as they endure the plague, civil war, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz. AUTHOR: Peter Ackroyd
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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