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Books about history and historical events?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I know there are some history buffs here, so What are some of your favorite books about history, or historical events or people, biographies and things like that?
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  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan is great and I have her follow-up Nixon In China but have not yet read it

    IBM and The Holocaust was really good

    Miracle in the Andes was fascinating
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  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I'm a history freak - is there a particular time period you're into?

    Son of the Morning Star - Evan Connell. Custer and Little Bighorn.
    Killer Angels - Michael Shaara. Gettsyburg.
    Rick Atkinson is writing a trilogy about the U.S. in WWII. An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle. Both are dense, but really good.
    Walter Lord, A Night to Remember (Titanic) and Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor). I loved these when I was little and they're still good to read.
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    I'm reading "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope" by Jonathan Alter right now and I'm really loving it.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The Empire Express, Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain
    Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie
    The First World War by John Keegan
    The People's History of the U.S. by The Zinn Man
    Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl Ernest Meyer
    The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response by Peter Balakian
    King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
    The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham
    The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians by W. Bruce Lincoln
    Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War by W. Bruce Lincoln
    Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

    To name a few....
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  • redmosquito10redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    Anything by either of the shaaras (father and son, i'm pretty sure). my personal favorites are The Killer Angels, which was already mentioned, and The Last Full Measure. Great books. Also, for a historical fiction about Boston corrupt politics, go with The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
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  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,642
    Cornelius Ryan and Ernie Pyle are both exceptional documentarians on World War II.
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  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
    The Civil War by Shelby Foote
    In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
    This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
    Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
    1776 and John Adams by David McCullough

    The list is endless
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