The Republic of Pirates
by Colin Woodard | 
Villains of All Nations
by Marcus Rediker | 
The Billy Ruffian
by David Cordingly | 
The Buccaneers of America
by Alexander O. Exquemelin | 
Pirates of Barbary
by Adrian Tinniswood | 
The Pirate Coast
by Richard Zacks |
The Bounty
by Caroline Alexander | 
Miracles and Massacres
by Glenn Beck |
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
by Daniel Pool | 
Persian Fire
by Tom Holland | 
Under a Flaming Sky
by Daniel James Brown | 
SPQR
by Mary Beard | 
The Wars of the Roses
by Dan Jones | 
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
by Judith Flanders | 
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson | 
Triangle
by David Von Drehle | 
Only Yesterday
by Frederick Lewis Allen | 
The Course of Human Events
by David McCullough |
Eyewitness to History
by John Carey | 
Red Land, Black Land
by Elizabeth Peters |
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents & records to produce a most authoritative & definitive account of piracy's Golden Age. As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. walking the plank is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex & often bloodier. 16 pages of photos. Maps.