šŸŒ World History

European civilization, Asian societies, Middle Eastern affairs, African nations, and global perspectives

GREATER EUROPE

Agent Zigzag--Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal Ben Macintyre
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days Rebecca Donner
Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan
The Birth of Britain Winston Churchill
Black Count--Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss
Castles of Steel--Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea Robert K. Massie
Catherine the Great Simon Dixon
Catherine the Great--Portrait of a Woman Robert K. Massie
The Classical World--An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian Robin Lane Fox
The Coming of the Third Reich Richard J. Evans
The Crimean War Orlando Figes
The Dark Valley--A Panorama of the 1930s Piers Brendon
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 Piers Brendon
The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes
Elizabeth I, The Life of Alison Weir
The End of the Old Order--Napoleon and Europe 1801-1805 Frederick Kagan
The European Economy Since 1945 Barry Eichengreen
Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe George Friedman
Galileo--A Brief Insight Book Stillman Drake
Galileo A Life James Reston
Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel
Gallipoli Alan Moorehead
Germania--In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans Simon Winder
The Global Age--Europe 1950-2017 Ian Kershaw
Gorbachev On My Country and the World Mikhail Gorbachev
The Greatest Battle--Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow Andrew Nagorski
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
The History of the Ancient World Susan Wise Bauer
History of Europe J.M. Roberts
ILL Fairs the Land Tony Judt
Journey to a Revolution--A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Michael Korda
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era William Taubman
The Lady Elizabeth Alison Weir
The Last Lion-- Winston Churchill Alone 1932-1940 William Manchester
Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson
Madame Curie-A Biography Eve Curie
Medieval Cities--Their Origins and the Revival of Trade Henri Pirenne
Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham
Munich, 1938 Appeasement and WWII David Faber
Napoleon--A Life Andrew Roberts
Nicholas and Alexandra Robert K. Massie
The Order of the Day Eric Vuillard
Paris 1919--Six Months that Changed the World Margaret McMillan
Peter the Great His Life and World Robert K. Massie
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Tony Judt
Putin's Kleptocracy--Who Owns Russia? Karen Dawisha
The Rape of Europa--The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War Lynn H. Nicholas
Revolution 1989--The Fall of the Soviet Empire Victor Sebestyen
The Roman Empire Alessandro Barbero
The Sleepwalkers--How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark
The Spanish Civil War Paul Preston
Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Storm of War--A New History of the Second World War Andrew Roberts
The Swerve--How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt
The Third Reich At War Richard J Evans
The Third Reich In Power Richard J Evans
A Train In Winter--An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France Caroline Moorehead
The War of Wars--The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815 Robert Harvey
The War that Ended Peace--The Road to 1914 Margaret MacMillan
Yalta The Price of Peace S.M. Plokhy

ASIA

China: Fragile Superpower Susan Shirk
The Coldest Winter--America and the Korean War David Halberstam
Dealing With China--An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Elephant Company--The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II Vicki Constantine Croke
Embers of War--The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Viernam Frederik Logevall
Embracing Defeat--Japan in the Wake of World War II John Dower
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert Bix
The Korean War A History Bruce Cumings
Mao Zedong a Life Jonathan Spence
North Korea Another Country Bruce Cumings
The Party--The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor
The Rising Sun--The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 John Toland
Tombstone--The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 Yang Jisheng
When China Rules the World Martin Jacques
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Le Ly Hayslip
Wild Swans--Three Daughters of China Jung Chang

MIDDLE EAST

The Accidental Empire--Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 Gershom Gorenberg
All The Shah's Men--An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror Stephen Kinzer
American Orientalism--The United States and the Middle East since 1945 Douglas Little
The Assasins's Gate--America in Iraq George Packer
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ--The Paradox of Modern Iran Hooman Majd
Behind the Beautiful Forevers--Life, Death and Hope In a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo
Between Memory and Desire--The Middle East in a Troubled Age R. Stephen Humphreys
Black Flags--The Rise of ISIS Joby Warrick
Churchill's Folly--How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq Christopher Catherwood
Cobra II--The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Michael Gordon
Confronting Iran Ali M. Ansari
Descent into Chaos--The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Ahmed Rashid
The Devil We Know--Dealing With The New Iranian Superpower Robert Baer
The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yum Kippur War Howard Blum
The Forever War Dexter Filkins
From Baghdad, With Love--A Marine, the War and a Dog Name Lava
From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas Friedman
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map Edward W. Said
Ghost Wars--The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll
The Great War for Civilization--The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk
Heretic--Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
A History of the Modern Middle East William L. Cleveland
In the Graveyard of Empires--America's War in Afghanistan Seth G. Jones
In the Line of Fire--A Memoir Pervez Musharraf
In the Rose Garden of Martyrs--A Memoir of Iran Christopher de Bellaigue
Inside the Kingdom--Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia Robert Lacey
Israel--A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country On Earth Noa Tishby
The Israeli Solution--A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East Caroline B. Glick
Jerusalem in the 20th Century Martin Gilbert
Lawrence In Arabia--War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson
Like Dreamers--The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation Yossi Klein Halevi
The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright
The Missing Peace--The Inside Story of the Fight for Peace in the Middle East Dennis Ross
My Promised Land--the Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Ari Shavit
No Good Men Among the Living--America, The Taliban,and the War Through Afghan Eyes Anand Gopal
One Bullet Away--The Making of a Marine Officer Nathaniel Fick
One Palestine, Complete--Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate Tom Segev
A Peace to End All Peace--The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon Robert Fisk
Power, Faith & Fantasy--America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present Michael Oren
Quicksand--America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East Geoffrey Wawro
The Shia Revival--How Conflicts with Islam Will Shape the Future Vali Masr
Sleeping With The Devil--How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude Robert Baer
Thicker Than Oil--America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia Rachel Bronson
The Threatening Storm Kenneth Pollack
The Unmaking of Israel Gershom Gorenberg
13 Hours--The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi Mitchell Zukoff

AFRICA

A Continent for the Taking--The Tragedy and Hope of Africa Howard French
Dancing In the Glory of Monsters--The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Jason K. Stearns
The Devil Came on Horseback--Bearing Witness to the Genocide In Darfur Brian Steidle
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz--Living On the Brink of Disaster In Mobutu's Congo Michela Wrong
The Looting Machine--Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth Tom Burgis
King Leopold's Ghost--Greed, Terror, and Heroism In Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
The Translator--A Tribeman's Memoir of Darfur Daoud Hari
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families--Stories From Rwanda Philip Gourevitch

OTHER

Age of Revolutions Fareed Zakaria
Alan Turing: The Enigma Andrew Hodges
Beethoven's Hair--An Extraordinary Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved Russell Martin
The Blood Telegram--Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotton Genocide Gary J. Bass
Chasing Venus--The Race to Measure the Heavens Andrea Wulf
Che Guevara-- A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Andeerson
Chip War--The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology Chris Miller
The Choice Zbigniew Brzezinski
Collapse--How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed Jared Diamond
David and Goliath--Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell
Doing Justice--A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law Preet Bharara
The Dictator's Shadow--Life Under Augusto Pinochet Heraldo MuƱoz
Endurance--Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing
Factfulness--Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World Hans Rosling, et. Al
Failed States--The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy Noam Chomsky
The Fish That Ate The Whale Rich Cohen
Forge of Empires 1861-1871--Three Revolutionary Statesmen ( Lincoln, Tsar Alexander II, Bismarck) and the World they Made Michael Knox Beran
Franklin and Winston Jon Meachem
Gandhi & Churchill--The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Arthur Herman
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford
Great Feuds In History Colin Evans
Guns, Germs & Steel--The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
The Hare With Amber Eyes--A Hidden Inheritance Edmund De Waal
Hegemony Or Survival Noam Chomsky
A Higher Call--Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II Adam Makos
The History of the 20th Century--1901-2000 J. M. Roberts
A History of the 20th Century: 1933-1951 Martin Gilbert
A History of the 20th Century: 1952-1999 Martin Gilbert
In the Heart of the Sea--The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Nathaniel Philbrick
Humankind--A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman
Krakatoa Simon Winchester
Longitude--The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Dava Sobel
Longitudes and Latitudes Thomas Friedman
The March of Folly--From Troy to Vietnam Barbara W. Tuchman
The Mother Tongue Bill Bryson
Nathaniel's Nutmeg--The Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History Giles Milton
The Next 100 Years--A Forecast for the 21st Century George Friedman
Over the Edge of the World--Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Laurence Bergreen
People Love Dead Jews--Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn
The Prize--The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power Daniel Yergin
The Quest--Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World Daniel Yergin
Red Heat--Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean Alex von Tunzelman
Red Notice Bill Browder
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers Paul Kennedy
Small Wars, Faraway Places--Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World 1945-1965 Michael Burleigh
A Splendid Exchange-- How Trade Shaped the World William J. Bernstein
Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century David Reynolds
Thief at the End of the World--Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire Joe Jackson
Triumph of the City--How Our greatest Invesntion Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier Edward Glaeser
Unbroken--A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hellenbrand
Unstoppable--Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey Joshua Greene
The War of the World--Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West Niall Ferguson
What Are You Looking At?--The Surprising, Shocking and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art Will Gompertz
The Wild Blue--The Men and Boys Who Flew B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 Stephen Ambrose
Winners Take All--The Elite Charade of Changing the World A. Giridharadas
Windfall--How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens Americas Power M.L. O'Sullivan
A Woman of No Importance--The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Sonia Purnell
Wizard--The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla Marc J. Seifer
World Order Henry Kissinger