India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 by Richard M. Eaton
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Category: History
A sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land experienced prolo ...Show more
The Hollow Crown - The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown togeth ...Show more
A Schoolmaster's War - Harry Ree--A British Agent in the French Resistance by Jonathan Ree
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Category: History
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry R e, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry R e renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943 ...Show more
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
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Category: History
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates 'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book Review In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can th ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
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Category: History
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a uniq ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down - Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
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Category: History
'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage' Times Higher Educatio ...Show more
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
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Category: History
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more
Lost Kingdom: - A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: History
In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this violation of national sovereignty was in fact only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom,award-winn ...Show more
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe ...Show more
Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valuable that it has often served as c ...Show more
Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Category: History
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka?s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going ...Show more