2010 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner

Revealing how close the world had come to nuclear Armageddon, this riveting history sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War, and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. …More

2009 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner

In this historical expos, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. photographs. …More

Winner - 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. "The Years of Extermination," the completion of Saul Friedlander's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. In this unparalleled work--based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs--the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation. …More

Winner - 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The road to 9/11 as seen through the lives of terrorist planners and the FBI counterrorism chief. …More

Winner-2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
This unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya is a major work of history detailing the prisons, work camps, and terror that the British imposed on millions just after World War II. It has chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. …More

Winner-2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
From the managing editor of "The Washington Post" comes this news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. …More

Winner - 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page photo inserts. …More

In this pathbreaking interrogation of the last century of American history, Power draws upon her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell the story of American indifference and American courage in the face of the worst massacres of the 20th century. 38 halftones throughout. …More

Winner - 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
McWhorter's magisterial narrativve tells the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, from the '50s through the '60s. In the tradition of such histories as "Parting the Water" and "Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home" documents the real story of integrating the South. …More

Winner-2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
With access to hundreds of previously untapped documents, including the unpublished letters and diaries of members of Hirohito's royal court, historian Bix has traced the Japanese emperor's reign from 1926 to 1989, revealing surprising information about his role in World War II. of photos. …More

Winner - 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Originally published in stages, here at last, is the long-awaited complete geology chronicles based on author John McPhee's travels across North America with geologists since 1978. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology, and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. 25 maps. Index. …More

Winner - 1998 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom. …More

Winner - 1995 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Winner - 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history - and sometimes rewrite it. In this groundbreaking, stylishly reported book, a journalist travels across the battlefields of memory and asks: Who is guilty? How should they be punished? And who is qualified to judge them in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice? In East Germany, Tina Rosenberg follows the trial of the border guards charged with the last shooting at the Berlin Wall. In the Czech Republic, she meets a heroic dissident who has now been ostracized for having once cooperated with the old regime. In Poland, she speaks with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the one-time architect of martial law who now presents himself as his country's savior. Out of these stories of conscience and complicity, courage and optimism, The Haunted Land delivers the final chapter of the greatest moral drama of our time. …More

Winner - 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
On a remote outpost of the Galapagos, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent 20 years measuring the beaks of generations of finches--to prove that Darwin did not know the strength of this own theory. "Spark(s) not just the intellect, but the imagination".--Washington Post Book World. 50 illustrations. Map. …More