History Without Homework
Rome, the Renaissance, Napoleonic Europe, the Ottomans, two wars and the Cold War — written by people who understand that a good historian is first a good storyteller.
Mary Beard · 2015SPQR
An incisive, erudite, and refreshingly un-pompous account of Rome's enduring legacy, from its republican origins to its imperial zenith
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William L. Shirer · 1960The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Shirer’s monumental account, shaped by his eyewitness perspective in Berlin and exhaustive archival access, chronicles the Third Reich’s swift ascent and cataclysmic collapse
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Simon Schama · 1989Citizens
A sweeping, opinionated and often dramatic account of the French Revolution, focusing on its personalities and cultural shifts
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Christopher Clark · 2012The Sleepwalkers
A masterly investigation into the diplomatic blunders and personal failings that ignited the Great War
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Jack Weatherford · 2004Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
How a nomadic warlord forged an empire that shaped the geopolitical and cultural landscape for centuries
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Caroline Finkel · 2005Osman's Dream
An authoritative and engaging history of the Ottoman Empire, spanning six centuries of its formidable power
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Barbara Tuchman · 1978A Distant Mirror
A vivid, meticulously researched account of the calamitous fourteenth century, seen through the life of a French nobleman
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John Lewis Gaddis · 2005The Cold War
A masterful, concise narrative of the Cold War's origins, evolution, and denouement
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Barbara W. Tuchman · 1962The Guns of August
How Europe walked into 1914 — the month that made the century.
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