New York: PublicAffairs, (2019). SIGNED first edition - An exploration of the nature of history by this Afghanistan-born author. "From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019. Maps, bibliography. 418 pp.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at major famines over the years - in China, India, Ireland, and Russia - and of attempts to prevent them, including the Indian Famine Code of 1887 and more recently the role of the United Nations - but even as it acknowledges the activities of the rulers of India in pre-colonial days to ameliorate conditions when drought caused a shortage of food, it downplays the role of British colonialism in ignoring the plight of the people and in putting in place policies that caused massive death tolls. Photographs, references, index. vii, 216 pp. ISBN: 0-701120479.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket - a "deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources -- including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries -- the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust." Extensive notes, index. 566 pp. ISBN: 1416567844.

New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Book published on the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, where Richard III was slain, and Henry became the first of the Tudor kings. A well-produced and written work, illustrated with many photographs, and with an extensive appendix on sources, notes, index. 199 pgs, slightly oversized format, printed on heavy stock, bound in black cloth with gold lettering on spine. ISBN: 0-312-069723.

New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. Hardcover - Photographs, index. 315 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. "On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days" - a crisis which changed the world. Illustrated with photographs and maps. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix, source notes, index. 680 pp. ISBN: 978-0871139252.

New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the history of mankind from the first stone axe to the supercomputers of today, and how those with the genius to invent, lead, design, heal have brought the earth to the brink of destruction. Illustrated with drawings by Ted Dewan. Bibliography, index. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-399140883.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sweeping history covering two hundred years of the battles between religion and politics. Illustrated with both full color and black and white plates. Notes, an extensive bibliography and index. 530 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0580933.

New York: Scribner's, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of smuggling in the British Isles and in the early years of America. Illustrated.

New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning journalist's expose of the 'detailed systematic looting' of Europe's Jews - by the Nazis, their collaborators, the neutrals, and even the Allies, to steal billions form the Jews of Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust - even 50 years later, assets are still being held in Swiss banks. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-385487630.

New York: Random House, 1969. 704 page, including index.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A reconstruction of the lives of 4 unconventional Elizabethan rogues, gentlemen on the make, ambassadors and secret agents, world travelers, pirates, goverment officials, and debtors, and also a picture of the society of the time. Illustrated, extensive notes, index. 337 pages.

New York: Viking, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - This Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the past in search of a better future. Based in large part upon his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. Further readings, index. xi, 499. ISBN: 978-0670024810.

New York: Stein & Day, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Written at the height of the student movement in the late 60's, this is an attempt to place it in historical perspective - topics range from student revolutionaries in Germany in 1815 to the beats in the 50's.

New York: World Almanac Publications, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - This provides a panoramic view of the issues, the personalities, the astounding progress and the appalling tragedies that have overtaken the world since the epochal year of 1900. Includes black-and-white photographs and index.

New York: Perseus Books, (2003.). First edition - A fascinating look at the history and uses of coal from the days of the Romans and ancient Brits and 12th China to its role in fueling the industrial revolution - with an emphasis on the social costs of coal, including the exploitation of miners, the deadly smoke that hung over the cities and the continuing contribution to global warming. Photographs, notes, bibliography. 295 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005). Hardcover first edition - A " concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the 9/11 attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India" by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Index. viii, 488 pp. ISBN: 978-0374292881.

New York: Henry Holt, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Based on interviews with the few survivors and their families, this is a comprehensive look at those who resisted the power of Hitler and the Nazis from inside Germany. "The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. And yet, in the context of a police state, it assumes larger proportions. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it is hard to grasp the daily terror that makes an act of political graffiti a capital offense, that labels resistance 'treason.' " Illustrated with maps and photographs, with a chart of resistance groups. Includes chronology, a 'who's who', notes, bibliography and index. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-805035141.

New York: Walker, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of an epic struggle, lasting over 40 years, and one of the most extraordinary engineering feats of the 19th century, which culminated in 1866 when the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a telegraph cable that spanned the Atlantic. Photographs, Notes, bibliography, index. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-802713645.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - A "comprehensive, non-political account of the land and its people" Illustrate with eighty-five photographs and 141 maps, diagrams and drawings. Index. 324 pp. Map on rear endpapers.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1991). Hardcover first edition - A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I don't think he could have imagined how prophetic he was being when he said the American century is over! 126 pp. ISBN: 0-68810391X.

New York: Harper & Row, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Focuses on the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V. A title in the History of Europe series under the editorship of J. H. Plumb. Bibliography, references, index. 224 pp.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. (1856.). Hardcover - Engraved frontispiece, 384 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with black embossed design on front cover, large gold decoration on spine.

New York: Bantam, (1969.). The story of six people who survived the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. A Bantam classic, FCC224, cover price 50c. Photograph of mushroom cloud on front cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the revolutionary rhetoric, and how the philosophical ideals behind the Revolution of 1789 led to the dark days of the Terror. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-812234146.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In this journey around the globe, we encounter true heroes including the Dalai Lama; Jane Goodall; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity. Despite the optimism expressed by these leaders, peace seems ever more elusive in the modern world. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Ela Gandhi. Notes, index. xiii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-062517414.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this journey around the globe, we encounter true heroes including the Dalai Lama; Jane Goodall; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity. Despite the optimism expressed by these leaders, peace seems ever more elusive in the modern world. Foreword by Ela Gandhi. Notes, index. xiii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-062517414.