The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain. This tale is told from the perspective of three key American players in London:

• Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe.
• Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s Lend-Lease program in London.
• John Gilbert Winant, the shy, idealistic U.S. ambassador to Britain.

Each man formed close ties with Winston Churchill—so much so that all became romantically involved with members of the prime minister’s family. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, Lynne Olson skillfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of these men who, determined to save Britain from Hitler, helped convince a cautious Franklin Roosevelt and reluctant American public to back the British at a critical time.

Deeply human, brilliantly researched, and beautifully written, Citizens of London is a new triumph from an author swiftly becoming one of the finest in her field.

The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work.

From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power.

Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.