Don’t miss the best new history from the past month, hand-picked by our editors! Don’t miss this month’s history picks — including a sweeping examination of the Western Hemisphere from a Pulitzer Prize winner, a riveting true story of an NFL player turned spy, and more!

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	‘The stuff of TV drama brought to real life’ (Kirkus Reviews) WHY IT’S READWORTHY: Learn how Kremlin sleeper agents have been infiltrating the West for over a century “Has all the elements of a great spy novel — assassinations, invisible ink, radio encryption, sabotage, misdirection, and treachery” (Booklist) A must-read for fans of The Americans “Sinister, clandestine, and deadly — this is essential history, and it is happening now” (Simon Sebag Montefiore) Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers This searing history of Native American boarding schools will stay with you WHY IT’S READWORTHY: Examines the systemic destruction of Native life through government-sponsored institutions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries Combines firsthand accounts from family members and meticulous historical research “A gripping, often harrowing account of the personal and communal toll of cultural genocide” (Kirkus Reviews) Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers An ‘illuminating and essential’ investigation of the mystery of Jesus (Los Angeles Times) WHY IT’S READWORTHY: A National Book Award–winning author addresses persistent questions about the life, death, and miracles of Jesus “The depth of spirituality [Pagels] uncovers is profound” (The New York Times Book Review) A thought-provoking New York Times bestseller for religious and secular readers alike, with praise from Jon Meacham and Tara Westover Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers A Pulitzer Prize winner delivers the first complete history of the Western Hemisphere WHY IT’S READWORTHY: “Destined to become our new reference for understanding the making of the modern world” (Naomi Klein) A sweeping survey of North and South America that spans five centuries Sheds new light on conquistadors, revolutionaries, heads of state, and other major figures Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers Meet the NFL player turned spy who inspired James Bond WHY IT’S READWORTHY: Working with Churchill’s undercover agents, Ernest Cuneo helped target Nazi conspirators hidden in the US A must-read for anyone interested in the origins of American intelligence “As gripping as a Bond novel — and every word of it true” (Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life) Learn more... MEDIA MENTION: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers A hard-hitting reexamination of a notorious Edwardian-era murder WHY IT’S READWORTHY: When Belle Elmore disappeared in 1910, all signs pointed to her husband, Dr. Crippen — but what role did his lover play? And what happened to his first wife? A Sunday Times bestselling author thoughtfully centers the victim in this “compelling” historical true crime story (TLS) “Masterfully reinvestigates an infamous case in a thoroughly modern way” (BookPage) Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers Sail through the treacherous Northwest Passage — and into a 19th-century mystery WHY IT’S READWORTHY: A New York Times bestselling author chronicles his own dangerous voyage while investigating Sir John Franklin’s lost 1845 expedition This “thrilling account” features “heart-pounding encounters with blizzards, gales, polar bears, and an Arctic typhoon” (Publishers Weekly starred review) “Will appeal to fans of extreme adventure stories” (Associated Press) Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers A provocative new history of Christianity’s relationship to sexuality WHY IT’S READWORTHY: “Both scholarly rigorous and amiably open to the variations of human experience, this enthralls” (Publishers Weekly starred review) An “extraordinary, definitive text” (Booklist starred review) spanning 3,000 years Written by an Oxford professor and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Learn more... MEDIA MENTIONS: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon See other formats and retailers World War II told through battlefield souvenirs, stolen and returned WHY IT’S READWORTHY: Follow the journey of a Japanese battle flag from the Philippines to New York Documents the efforts of an American Iwo Jima veteran, a Buddhist monk, and a Japanese veteran’s son to return war artifacts An intergenerational saga that “illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II” (Clarissa Ward) Learn more... MEDIA MENTION: GET EBOOK ON: Amazon