Here is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Machiavelli set out to write a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic: the prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values. Controversial but powerful, The Prince is...

Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. Th...

In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state, in the years leading to the Great War.

From insights into the mind of history's greatest general to a grunt's-eye view of the gruesome realities of war in the Classical Age, this is a vivid portrait of the daily life of the Tenth Legion.