This is a thoroughly enjoyable book about the amazing trials and travails of 45 explorers and adventurers, including Marco Polo, Magellan, Columbus, Hudson, La Salle, Shackleton, Peary, and Cook.

This great biography, by historian David McCullough, explores the irascible temperament and honest character of John Adams, a key founding father who became the second president of the United States.

A terrific biography of America's sixth president.

Pulitzer-prize winning book on the American Civil War.

A man of tremendous inner strength and resolve, Grant became the top Union General in the Civil War, and the 18th President of the United States. This is an excellent account of his life.

Catton writes well, with a smooth, lively-paced, descriptive prose style. This book deals with Grant and the last year two years of the Civil War. Very good.

This is a decent biography of President Grover Cleveland, the only president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms.

An engaging biography of the adventurous and rambunctious life of Theodore Roosevelt. Terrific.

Scott vs Amundsen and their race to be the first to the South Pole. Put on a blanket cause you'll feel you're in the Antarctic traveling along with them.

A terrific telling of the story of Peary and Cook and the race to the be the first to the North Pole. This book delves into their personalities, their explorations and their competing claims.

The classic story of the rise and collapse of the Third Reich.

From his birth in Austria to his death in a Berlin bunker, this is, in my opinion, the definitive biography of Hitler.

A terrific book on the battle for Germany toward the end of World War Two in Europe. Thoroughly engaging, this is absolutely top notch history writing.

A very good account of the life of the supreme allied commander and president.

This is a breezy, fast-paced cradle to grave biography of President Kennedy.

Well, sports history anyway. A very good book about the Detroit Tigers of '68, a year in which they won the World Series. Great anecdotes about the players and the team and what made them special.

Perhaps the former president's son, Michael Reagan says it best. 'Finally, a book that not only focuses on my dad's faith but gets it right.'

Memoirs: 1939-1993, by Brian Mulroney, is a thoroughly engaging book in which he recounts events in his life from his birth to the end of his time as Prime Minister of Canada. He reveals personal aspects of his life and eludidates the many challenges involved in governing the country and winning two back-to-back majority governments for the Conservative Party.

A thought-provoking analysis of the effects of conquest with reference to a wide array of historical examples.

Another great history book by Paul Johnson.