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Include books by the same authorThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson · 464 pages
From back cover: Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spell-binding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America's place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Stephen E. Ambrose · 336 pages
Follows the 101st Airbone as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe to the end of World War II.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson · 635 pages
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a t
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan · 340 pages
The Histories
Herodotus · 833 pages
Recounts the causes and history of the wars between the Greek city-states and Persia.
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor · 520 pages
This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway · 481 pages
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Vall
The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell · 254 pages
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today’s world, and their myriad oddities.In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America’s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. Fro
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 576 pages
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also wi
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 924 pages
The author makes the point that in this abridgement he has adhered to Gibbon's style, format, planning, and footnotes, and has made only selective exclusions. The history covers the centuries from Marcus Aurelius to the capture of Constantinople, and concludes with an epilogue dealing with medieval Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance.
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough · 622 pages
Built to join the rapidly expanding cities of New York and Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Bridge was thought by many at the start to be an impossibility destined to fail if not from insurmountable technical problems then from political corruption. (It was the heyday of Boss Tweed in New York.) But the Brooklyn Bridge was at once the greatest engineering triumph of the age, a surpassing work of art, a pr
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Daniel J. Boorstin · 747 pages
Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano · 338 pages
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Scott Anderson · 577 pages
This book is a thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential episodes in twentieth-century history -- the Arab Revolt and the secret "great game" to control the Middle East. The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant atten
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · 460 pages
A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
William Manchester · 318 pages
William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Shelby Foote · 844 pages
One of the best histories of the Civil War. Told in a conversational style by Shelby Foote from the Ken Burns PBS series "The Civil War" A must read for anyone interested in the war, or interested in the United States. If you are not a fan of all things Civil War before you will be after! Shelby Foote keeps your interest like none other, do not miss this classic.
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore · 480 pages
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were conside
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Joseph J. Ellis · 304 pages
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders--Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams. He c
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
G.J. Meyer · 612 pages
Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the critical role religion played in government, and the blossoming of English theater and literature.
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
Robert Hughes · 688 pages
Incredibly rich and detailed account of the first white settlers that arrived in Australia, and what they found when they arrived. Riveting.
Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis · 479 pages
Ebook Extra: Don’t Know Much About Kenneth C. Davis: An Interview with the Author A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don't Know Much About® series When Don't Know Much About® History first appeared thirteen years ago, it created a sensation. With humor, wit, great stories, and a trademark conversation
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning · 304 pages
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. *Ordinary Men* is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues th