1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II by Belton Y. Cooper 
The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze 
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
​The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler, Herodotus
The Viking World by Stefan Brink
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline 
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
A History of God : The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes
American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800: The Settlement of North America to 1800by Alan Taylor
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344 : by Judith Bennett
The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy
Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World by Matthew Bennett
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
The Fall of Carthage The Punic Wars 265-146B by Adrian Goldsworthy
Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson ​
Six Frigates: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by Ian W. Toll
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
The Sagas of Icelanders​​​
Waterloo The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
Taming Democracy: "The People", The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution by Terry Bouton
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Armour from the Battle of Wisby by Bengt Thordeman
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
Facing East from Indian Country : A Native History of Early Americav by Daniel K. Richter
History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
Swords Around A Throne : Napoleon's Grande Armée by John R. Elting
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinke
A Poisonous Affair : America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Hiltermann J.R
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control by Ross Hassig
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence
Peasants into Frenchmen by Eugen Weber
Lying About Hitler by Richard J. Evans
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
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  1. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (3)⬆
  2. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning (2) =
  3. The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham ✘
  4. Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II by Belton Y. Cooper ✘
  5. The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze ✘
  6. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ✘
  7. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (60) ⬆
  8. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (23) ⬆
  9. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow ✘
  10. Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook ✘
  11. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler, Herodotus ✘
  12. The Viking World by Stefan Brink ✘
  13. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline (103)⬆
  14. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon ✘
  15. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr ✘
  16. A History of God : The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong ✘
  17. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes (51)⬆
  18. American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800: The Settlement of North America to 1800by Alan Taylor ✘
  19. Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris (38)⬆
  20. A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344 : by Judith Bennett ✘
  21. The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy ✘
  22. Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World by Matthew Bennett ✘
  23. Command and Control by Eric Schlosser ✘
  24. The Fall of Carthage The Punic Wars 265-146B by Adrian Goldsworthy ✘
  25. Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (1)⬇
  26. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
  27. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner ✘
  28. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson ✘
  29. Six Frigates: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by Ian W. Toll ✘
  30. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson ✘
  31. The Sagas of Icelanders
  32. Waterloo The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
  33. Taming Democracy: "The People", The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution by Terry Bouton
  34. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (116)⬆
  35. Armour from the Battle of Wisby by Bengt Thordeman
  36. The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge ✘
  37. Facing East from Indian Country : A Native History of Early Americav by Daniel K. Richter ✘
  38. History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky ✘
  39. Swords Around A Throne : Napoleon's Grande Armée by John R. Elting ✘
  40. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld ✘
  41. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker ✘
  42. A Poisonous Affair : America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Hiltermann J.R. ✘
  43. The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah ✘
  44. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control by Ross Hassig ✘
  45. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence (22)⬇
  46. Peasants into Frenchmen by Eugen Weber ✘
  47. Lying About Hitler by Richard J. Evans ✘
  48. The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay ✘
  49. The Invisible Hook : The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson ✘
  50. Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume III by Hans Delbrück ✘
  51. The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (64)⬆
  52. The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann ✘
  53. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower ✘
  54. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner ✘
  55. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer ✘
  56. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ✘
  57. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn ✘
  58. Empires of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by Roger Crowley ✘
  59. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff ✘
  60. The Rising Sun : The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland ✘
  61. The Battle that Shook Europe by Peter Englund ✘
  62. The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard J. Evans ✘
  63. The Great Divergence : China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz (75)⬆
  64. The Middle Ground : Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by Richard White ✘
  65. Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman ✘
  66. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick ✘
  67. Black against Empire : The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom ✘
  68. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William Trotter ✘
  69. Slavery by Another Name : The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIby Douglas A. Blackmon ✘
  70. The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter ✘
  71. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman ✘
  72. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank
  73. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry ✘
  74. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (109)⬆
  75. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century by Colonel-General G.F. Krivosheev
  76. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (25)⬇
  77. Bomber Command by Max Hastings ✘
  78. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson ✘
  79. The Rommel Papers by B. H. Liddell-Hart ✘
  80. The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown ✘
  81. What Went Wrong ? : The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis ✘
  82. The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin ✘
  83. 1776 by David McCullough (28) ⬇
  84. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt ✘
  85. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (62)⬇
  86. The First World War by John Keegan (37)⬇
  87. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (5)⬇
  88. Agincourt: The King; the Campaign; the Battle by Juliet Barker ✘
  89. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist ✘
  90. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer ✘
  91. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (9)⬇
  92. State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan by Thomas Donald Conlan ✘
  93. Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. Tucker ✘
  94. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings ✘
  95. Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox ✘
  96. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 by Russell F. Weigley ✘
  97. The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Scienceby Richard Holmes ✘
  98. The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Rediscovering Africa’s Literary Culture by Alida Jay Boye ✘
  99. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser ✘
  100. Introduction to Folklore: Traditional Studies in Europe and Elsewhere by Ronald M. James ✘
  101. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba ✘
  102. Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army by David C. Isby ✘
  103. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (14)⬇
  104. An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade by Matthew Gabriele ✘
  105. The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi by William Scott Wilson ✘
  106. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg  ✘
  107. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth ✘
  108. The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House by Jesse J. Holland ✘
  109. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ✘
  110. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee by Bart D. Ehrman ✘
  111. AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham ✘
  112. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (72) ⬇
  113. The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November by Sergo Mikoyan ✘
  114. Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury ✘
  115. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson ✘
  116. A Heart for Europe – The Lives of Emperor Charles and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary by Joanna Bogle ✘
  117. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. by Kenneth Pomeranz ✘
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