Erik Larson

A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.

The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds. Burnham overcame great obstacles...

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture — its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists — but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm.
"Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." —San Diego Union-Tribune
"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." —Washington Post...

A 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.

"Prawdziwa historia wielkiej pogoni przez ocean, którą śledziły miliony czytelnik̤w gazet na całym świecie latem 1910 roku. Porywająca opowieść o jednym z największych w historii pościgów policyjnych, który zakończył się sukcesem tylko dzięki wynalezionej przez Guglielmo Marconiego telegrafii bezprzewodowej. Rok 1910. Guglielmo Marconi � włoski fizyk, konstruktor i laureat Nagrody Nobla � jest bez reszty opanowany obsesją stworzenia...

"Hacia las dos de la tarde del 7 de mayo de 1915, el Lusitania, el mayor y más lujoso transatlántico del momento, recibía el impacto de un torpedo disparado por un submarino alemán, hundiéndose en apenas veinte minutos con el doloroso balance de 1.200 muertos, la mayoría ciudadanos estadounidenses. Esta muerte fue utilizada por los periódicos para crear un clima de opinión propicio a la participación en la guerra. Incluso se dijo que a los...