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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared M. Diamond

Christopher R. Browning

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

Empire of the Summer Moon

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Salt: A World History

The History of the Ancient World

Susan Wise Bauer

Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

Napoleon: A Life

A People's History of The United States 1492- Present

A Short History of Nearly Everything

The Forgotten Soldier

The Penguin History of the World: Sixth Edition

Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, The Secret WWII...

Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials)

God's Chinese Son

Jonathan D. Spence

Under the Black Flag

David Cordingly

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

A Peace to End All Peace

David McCullough

The Devil in the White City

The Face of Battle

Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen

A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution

Theodore Draper

Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.

The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)

Will Durant, Ariel Durant

Lost to the West

Lars Brownworth

The First World War

Why the West Rules--for Now

Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Robert K. Massie

David Hackett Fischer

Rise & Fall Of The Great Powers

Paul M. Kennedy

Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

The Power Broker

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

James D. Hornfischer

Destiny Disrupted

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Matthew Restall

A History of Warfare

A Little History of the World (Little Histories)

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

Anthony Everitt

A Sea of Words, Third Edition

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

The Black Count

Embracing Defeat

The Devil's Chessboard

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson

The Wars of the Roses

The Search for Modern China

Jonathan D. Spence

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6

Europe: A History

Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K. Massie

The Plantagenets

Christopher Clark

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

Robert K. Massie

The Great Divergence

Kenneth Pomeranz

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949

Siegfried Knappe

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Jr. Vine Deloria

The American Revolution

We, the Navigators

Panzer Commander

Lawrence in Arabia

Hell In A Very Small Place

Bernard Fall, Bernard B. Fall

Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V

The New Penguin History of the World

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Achilles in Vietnam

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

Cartoon History of the United States

A Short History of Byzantium

John Julius Norwich

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England

Man Called Intrepid

William Stevenson

The Dictator's Handbook

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

ADay in the Life of Ancient Rome by Angela, Alberto

The Killer Angels

The Last Days of the Incas

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller...

The Poison King

The Great Mortality

A People's Tragedy

Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Caroline Finkel

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

The Campaigns of Napoleon

David G. Chandler

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

American Nations

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

Facing East from Indian Country

Daniel K. Richter

Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

Mao's Great Famine

Frank Dikötter

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

Peter H. Wilson

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition

A World Lit Only by Fire

William Manchester