Adlington, Lucy. Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust. Harper Paperbacks. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780063375130. pbk. 352p. $19.99. HISTORY

Adlington, fashion historian and bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, offers another deeply researched book about women during World War II. Here she recounts the stories of four Jewish girls facing the Holocaust who were strangers to each other but each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Ioffe, Julia. Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. Ecco. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780062879127. 320p. $32.99. HISTORY

Award-winning journalist Ioffe debuts with a portrait of Russia through the history of its women. Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union in 1990, and she returned nearly 20 years later to a much-changed Russia. Chronicling the past and sharing her personal experiences, Ioffe offers insights into Russia’s history, present, and future. With a 125K-copy first printing.

Kennedy, Kostya. The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America. St. Martin’s. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250341372. 320p. $29. HISTORY

Journalist Kennedy, whose three books about baseball each won the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, turns to the history of Paul Revere’s legendary ride in 1775 to alert American colonists of advancing British troops. The book will be released in time for the 250th anniversary of this historic event. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Risen, Clay. Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America. Scribner. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781982141806. 480p. $31. HISTORY

Risen (The Crowded Hour, a NYT Notable Book), a reporter and editor at the New York Times, considers the anti-Communist fervor that gripped the United States following World War II. Drawing on newly declassified sources, he explores the politics and historical figures of the era, including Joseph McCarthy, President Eisenhower, Robert Oppenheimer, and more.

Rogak, Lisa. Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS. St. Martin’s. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250275592. 240p. $29. HISTORY

Betty MacDonald, Zuzka Lauwers, Jane Smith-Hutton, and Marlene Dietrich, as members of the United States’ OSS, were tasked with creating propaganda that would break the morale of Axis soldiers and were incredibly successful in their efforts. Bestselling Rogak (Who Is Alex Trebek?: A Biography) shares the stories of these four women who helped win World War II through a covert campaign of disinformation.

Shorto, Russell. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. Norton. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780393881165. 352p. $29.99. HISTORY

Bestselling Shorto (The Island at the Center of the World; Smalltime) revisits New York City’s origins as he explores the founding of Manhattan, utilizing new research, including never-before-translated Dutch archival materials. He examines the English invasion of the Dutch-controlled New Amsterdam and the brutal dispossession of Indigenous peoples in this history of a place that would go on to have global impact.

Vorenberg, Michael. Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle To End the American Civil War. Knopf. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781524733179. 480p. $35. HISTORY

Historian Vorenberg (Brown Univ.; Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment) searches for the Civil War’s end point, considering important moments such as Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the declaration of the end of slavery in Galveston, and more, while also contemplating the nature of war and its legacy.