Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
Ghost Wars
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas ion to September 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
**Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan**
To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism?...
Stalingrad
The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.
In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore...
The Mockingbird Next Door
Life with Harper Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known...
by Henry Kissinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising...
by John Berendt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
The #1 New York Times bestseller!
Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into...
by Antony Beevor
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Third Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality,...
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency
In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica"...
Christianity
The First Three Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence
A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible...
by Laurence G. Boldt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
If, as the I Ching says, thoughts are spirits, then this collection of highly distilled thoughts from history's greatest philosophers and religious figures will certainly put you in good spirits. Laurence Boldt has long made a practice of applying Zen principles to everyday life. Here he applies wisdom...
The Big Rich
The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
"What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?" —The Economist
Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's...
A World in Disarray
American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
**"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading." —The New York Times
An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States...
Midnight in Mexico
A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting...
There Was a Country
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war
For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran...
Urban Forests
A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
**“Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” *—*Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
“Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and...