Tagged: history

Dava Sobel
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
★★★★☆
Marie Arana
Bolivar: American Liberator
★★★★★
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
★★★☆☆
William C. Davis
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
★★★☆☆
Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
★★★★★
Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
★★★★★
Robert B. Downs
Books that Changed America
★★★★☆
T. Harry Williams
Huey Long
★★★☆☆
David McCullough
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
★★★★☆
Barry S. Strauss
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
★★★★★
S.C. Gwynne
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
★★★★★
Candice Millard
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
★★★★☆
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff
★★★★★
Stephen E. Ambrose
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
★★★☆☆
Fabien Sanglard
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
★★★★★
David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
★★★★★
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
★★★☆☆
James Holland
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
★★★★★
Erik Larson
Thunderstruck
★★★☆☆
Lynn Vincent
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
★★★★★
Walter Isaacson
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
★★★★☆
Victoria E. Bynum
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
★★★☆☆
Robert Kurson
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
★★★★★
R.V. Burgin
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
★★★★☆
James Lee McDonough
William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
★★★★★
Josh Dean
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
★★★★★
David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
★★★★★
Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
★★★★★
Ron Chernow
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
★★★☆☆
S.C. Gwynne
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
★★★★★
Ron Chernow
Grant
★★★★★
Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Figures
★★★★★
Peter Stark
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
★★★★☆
Jack Weatherford
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
★★★☆☆
Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton
★★★★★
Ian Kershaw
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
★★★★★
Nathaniel Philbrick
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
★★★★☆
Erik Larson
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
★★★★★
S.C. Gwynne
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
★★★★★
Nathaniel Philbrick
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
★★★★★

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