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