Historical Nonfiction Romance

A True Story of Resilience Survival and Unbroken Spirit A Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II Treasures of Sadness is the story of Corrie's unbroken spirit. If you love historical fiction, don't miss reading this real life memoir and page-turner: Treasures of Sadness Treasures of Sadness is a real life account of a woman’s journey that began during World War II. Corrie grew up in an affluent neighborhood in Amersfoort, Holland in the 1940’s. From there she fell in love with a German soldier, rubbed elbows with royalty in Vienna, Austria and ended up in a coal mining town ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Tanya Reynolds, star of Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth. 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris. For one woman in the aftermath of World War I, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons. Paris, 1919. Margot Rosenthal has arrived in France with her father, a German diplomat. She initially resents being...

A wealthy Elizabethan merchant is found dead in his bed. A young bride stands accused. What begins as a murder investigation becomes one of Tudor England’s most haunting historical true crime stories. The Page of Plymouth Plymouth, England. February 1591. Master William Page is one of the richest and most powerful merchants in Devon, a respected goldsmith, international trader, and financier of England’s legendary privateering voyages. When he is discovered lifeless in his bed, his passing seems the result of a common illness known simply as “the stone.” Then investigators pull back...

Brought to you by Penguin. This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia...

What if the Regency ballroom and the dating app were telling the same love story? Regency Dating reveals what modern romance can learn from the past—and what the past desperately needed from us. In the Regency era, romance unfolded under chandeliers and chaperones. Today, it plays out in chat bubbles, stories, and swipes. The rooms have changed. The gaze has not. In Regency Dating, novelist, historian, and essayist Richard Fleischman brings two worlds into conversation: the slow, rule‑bound courtships of the early nineteenth century and the fast, hyperconnected dating culture of now. ...

The greatest love stories in history — and what they teach us about keeping love alive. Cleopatra smuggled herself to Caesar rolled in a carpet. A dying queen of Spain asked only to lie beside her husband forever. Beethoven hid a letter in a secret drawer for fifteen years, addressed to a woman history has never identified: my Immortal Beloved. From the author of A Thing of Beauty: The Life and Poetry of John Keats comes a meditation on eighteen of history's most extraordinary love affairs — emperors and poets, admirals and pianists, chemists and queens — told with the pace of fiction...

Love Stories From History True Romance. Real History. Unforgettable Consequences. When John Wilkes Booth was shot and left dying on the porch of a Virginia farmhouse, soldiers searched his pockets. Alongside a dagger, money, and a compass, they found something no one expected: five photographs of women. One belonged to Lucy Lambert Hale—the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator, an abolitionist, and an enemy of everything Booth claimed to hate. Why was her image there? And why was the truth buried for nearly thirty years? Love Stories From History uncovers one of the most shocking, long-...

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional prime minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style, and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political turmoil in her private and public life.

Follow Midnite, the genius activist-musician whose mis-adventures, during a dangerous and turbulent time in America's history, lead the reader on a journey of death, slavery,music, corruption and romance. Standing up for justice, while seeking enlightenment,takes Midnite on a dark and foreboding journey. These unimaginable events will both surprise the reader and awaken hope in America's democracy........ or will it?

History was never as faithful as it looked in the portraits. Behind the crowns, treaties, speeches, marriages, and official stories were secret lovers, royal mistresses, forbidden romances, political betrayals, jealous spouses, dangerous letters, and people making romantic decisions with absolutely no concern for future historians’ blood pressure. In History’s Most Scandalous Affairs, Beatrice Bellweather takes readers on a witty, dramatic tour through the love affairs that shocked courts, damaged reputations, influenced politics, and changed the way history remembers some of its most ...

Brought to you by Penguin. In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an...

America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion—or the "illiberal imagination"—that has animated conservative politics for a century now. Since the 1940s, the Right has railed against communist fellow travelers in America. Heilbrunn finally corrects the record, showing that dictator worship is a longstanding tradition within modern American conservatism that cannot be ignored—and what it means for us today.

In the early 1960s, Ann Garretson sparks an airmail romance with Lieutenant Jack Sigg, a West Point grad and tank commander on the German-Czech border. Ann and Jack's correspondence heats up, and they hatch a rendezvous in Europe for the summer of 1964 to seal their budding love. A match for the ages. Not so fast. Ann's best friend in college, Terry Marshall, helps her plan the escapade, but in the weeks leading up to her trip, they realize they are more than just friends. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one of the most important imperial networks ever built 'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still...

Brought to you by Penguin. The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan was property of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and by the age of seven, she had lived in fourteen different homes and had her name changed multiple times. Twenty years after...