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I read mainly in English, including English translations of Arabic and ancient Greek. For secondary sources I prefer authors who have done what I have not: dedicated their professional lives to a narrow field of study.
Abraham, Richard, Rosa Luxemburg
Abboushi, W F, The Unmaking of Palestine
Abu-Lughod, Janet L, Before European Hegemony: a World System AD 1250-1350
Aburish, Said K, Arafat: from Defender to Dictator
Ackerknecht, Edwin H, A Short History of Medicine
Africa, Thomas W, The Immense Majesty
Albee, Sarah, Poop Happened: A History of the World from the Bottom Up.
Anderson, M S, The War of Austrian Succession, 1740-1748
Appleby, Joyce, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Appleby, Joyce, The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism
Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by John H McMahon
Aristotle, The Politics, translated by Sir Ernest Barker
Armajani, Yahya, Middle East, Past and Present
Aruri, Naseer, editor, Occuption: Israel over Palestine, Second Edition
Aslan, Reza, Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Asminov, Isaac, Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
Babinger, Franz, Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time
Baffaclough, Geoffrey, The Crucible of Europe: the Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History
Bailey, Helen Miller and Nasatir, Abraham P, Latin America: the Development of its Civilization
Bairoch, Paul, Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxs
Baker, Nicholson, Human Smoke
Bark, Dennis L and Gress, David R, A History of West Germany: From Shadow to Substance, 1945-63, Volume 1
Barker, Sir Ernest, From Alexander to Constantine
Basham, AL, Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism
Bauer, Wolfgang, China and the Search for Happiness
Beasley, W G, The Rise of Modern Japan
Beatty, Jack, The Lost History of 1914
Beevor, Antony, The Fall of Berlin, 1945
Beinart, Peter, The Icarus Syndrome: a History of American Hubris
Bengtsson, Frans G, The Sword Does not Jest: the Heroic Life of King Charles XII of Sweden
Benko, Stephen, Pagan Rome and the Early Christians
Bennet, Clinton, In Search of Muhammad
Berg, A Scott, Lindbergh
Bergère, Marie-Claire, Sun Yat-sen
Berkin, Carol, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
Bethell, Leslie, Argentina Since Independence
Biddiss, Michael D, Father of Racist Ideology: the social and political thought of Count Gobideau
Bix, Herbert P, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Black, Jeremy, The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793
Blackford, Mansel G, and Kerr, K Austin, Business Enterprise in American History
Blackmon, Douglas A, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Blight and Kornbluh, editors, Politics of Illussion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined
Blinkhorn, Martin, Mussolini and Fascist Italy
Bokenkotter, Thomas, A Concise History of the Catholic Church
Boot, Max, War Made New
Boren, Henry C, Roman Society: A Social, Economic and Cultural History
Botting, Douglas, From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949
Bourne, Frank C, A History of the Romans
Bowle, John, Politics and Opinion in the 19th Century
Boyce, Mary, Zoroastrians, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
Bradley, Mark Philip, Vietnam at War
Brands, H W , TR: The Last Romantic
Brands, H W, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Brentano, Robert editor, The Early Middle Ages, 500 -1000
Breslauer, George W, Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders
Briard, Jacques, The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe
Brinton, Crane, Ideas and Men: the Story of Western Thought
Brown, Elaine, A Taste of Power: a Black Woman's Story
Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo
Browning, Christopher, The Origins of the Final Solution
Browning, Reed, The War of Austrian Succession
Browning, Robert, Justinian and Theodora
Bukey, Evan Burr, Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938 - 1945
Burchell, Samual C, Age of Progress, 1850-1914
Burki, Javed Shahid, Pakistan: Fifty Years of Nationhood, Third Edition
Burney, Charles, The Ancient Near East
Bury, J B, History of the Later Roman Empire, Vols 1 & 2
Bury, J B, The Invasion of the Barbarians
Butterfield, Herbert, The Origins of History
Callahan, Bob, Who Shot JFK: A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories
Calvert, Susan and Peter, Argentina: Political Culture and Instability
Cambridge History of China, Volume 1, 221BC – AD220
Cambridge History of Japan, Volumes 3 and 4
Cameron, Rondo, A Concise Economic History of the World, 2nd Edition
Cary, M and Scullard, HH, A History of Rome, Third Edition
Ceram, C W, Secret of the Hittites: the Discovery of an Ancient Empire,
Chambers, Mortimer, ed The Fall of Rome
Chandler, Lester V, America's Greatest Depression
Cheetham, Nicholas, Keepers of the Keys
Chen, Jian, China's Road to the Korean War
Clark, Christopher, The SleepWalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Chidester, David, Christianity: a Global History
Clough, Shepard B, The Rise and Fall of Civilization
Coblentz, Stanton A, The Long Road to Humanity
Coedès, G The Making of Southeast Asia
Cohen, Curd and Reeve, editors, Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: from Thales to Aristotle
Cohen, Stephen F, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics & History Since 1917
Cohen and Zelnik, editors, the Free Speech Movement, Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
Connaughton, Richard, MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines
Conquest, Robert, Reflections on a Ravaged Century
Conquest, Robert, The Nation Killers: the Soviet deportation of nationalities
Cotterell, Anton, China, a Concise Cultural History
Cowell, F R, Life in Ancient Rome
Cowles, Virginia, The Kaiser
Cowles, Virginia, The Romanovs
Crane, Conrad C, Bombs, Cities and Civilians
Crawford, Harriet, Sumer and the Sumerians
Crawley, Eduardo, Nicaragua in Perspective
Crier, Catherine, Contempt
Crozier, Andrew J, The Causes of the Second World War
Crowe, Ivan, The Quest for Food
Dampier, Sir William, A History of Science and Its Relations with Philosophy and Religion
Deal, William E, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Dale, Tom and Carter, Vernon Gill, Topsoil and Civilization
De Bary, Chan and Watson, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume1
De Bary, William and Tsunoda, Ryusaku, Sources of Japanese Tradition
Dedijer, Vladimir, The Road to Sarajevo
Desborough, Vincent Robin D'Arba, The Greek Dark Ages
Deutschmann, David, editor, The Che Guevara Reader
Dever, William G, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?
Devine, Robert A, Eisenhower and the Cold War
Dickson, Bruce D, The Dawn of Belief
Diffy, Bailey W, Latin American Civilization , Colonial Period
Dinwiddy, John, Bentham
Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Diamong, Jared, The World until Yesterday
Djilas, Milovan, Conversations with Stalin
Dobbs, Michael, One Minute to Midnight
Dodds, E R, Greeks and the Irrational
Douglas, Emily Taft, Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future,
Dower, John W, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Dozy, Reinhart, Spanish Islam: a History of the Moslems in Spain
Driver, Harold E, Indians of North America
Duffy, James, Portugal in Africa
Dufour, Ronald P, Colonial America
Dunn, Dennis J, Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassardors to Moscow
Durant, Will and Ariel, The Story of Civilization
East, John P, The American Conservative Movement: The Philosophical Founders
Eban, Abba, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Eban, Abba, My People, 1968
Eban, Abba, Personal Witness: Israel through My Eyes
Eisenman, Robert and Wise, Michael, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered
El-Kikhia, Mansour, Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction
Ellis, Peter Berresford, The Celtic Empire
Emmerson, Charles, 1913: In Search of the World before the Great War
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Americana
English, T J, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob owned Cuba and then Lost it to the Revolution
Errington, P M, The Dawn of Empire: Rome's Rise to World Power
Esolen, Anthony, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
Evans, Sir R J, The Victorian Age
Fage, J D, A History of Africa
Fairbank, John and Goldman, Merle, China: A New History
Farah, Caesar E, Islam: Beliefs and Observations
Faragher, John Mack, A Great and Noble Scheme
Fehrenbach, T R, Fire and Blood: a History of Mexico
Feith, Douglas J, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Feldman, Noah, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Ferguson, John, The Religions of the Roman Empire
Ferrell, Robert H The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
Fest, Joachim C, Hitler
Finkelstein, Israel, and Silberman, Neil, David and Solmon
Fisk, Robert, The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East
Flannery, Austin, editor, Vatican Council II
Foss, Clive, Juan and Eva Perón
Fox, Robin Lane, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible
Fox, Robin Lane, The Search of Alexander
Fox, Robin Lane, Pagans and Christians
Frankel, Max, High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Frazier, Donald S, editor, The United States and Mexico at War
Frye, Susan, Elizabeth I
Fuhrmann, Joseph T, Origins of Capitalism in Russia
Fukuyama, Francis, The Origins of Political Order: from Prehistoric Times to the French Revolution
Gabriel, Mary, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Gagliardo, John G, Germany under the Old Regime, 1600-1790
Garnsey, Peter, Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
General History of Africa, Volume V, UNESCO, BA Ogot, Editor
Gibbon, Edward, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilbert, Martin, The First World War: A Complete History
Gilbert, Martin, Israel: a History
Gilbert, Martin, The Second World War, Revised Edition
Gowers, Andrew and Walker, Tony, Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution
Graeber, David, Debt: the First 5,000 Years
Graff and Higham, A Military History of China
Grant, Michael, History of Ancient Israel
Grant, Michael, Rise of the Greeks
Grant, Michael, The Fall of Rome, a Reappraisal
Grant, Michael, From Alexander to Cleopatra: the Hellenistic World
Grant, Robert M, Eusebius as Church Historian
Graves, MAR, Revolution, Reaction and the Triumph of Conservatism: English History, 1558 to 1700
Green, Jack P, and Cole, JR, editors, A Companion to the American Revolution
Green, Peter, Ancient Greece: a Concise History
Green, Peter, Armada from Athens
Green, Peter, Alexander to Actium: the Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age
Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks
Grieb, Kenneth J, Guatemalan Caudillo: The Regime of Jorge Ubico
Grousset, René, The Rise and Splendor of the Chinese Empire
Guy, John Alexander, Thomas More
Gwyn, David, Idi Amin: death-light of Africa
Hadot, Pierre, Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision, tr Michael Chase
Halberstam, David, The Fifties
Hall, John Whitney, Japan, from Prehistory to Modern Times
Hamerow, Theodore S,The Birth of a New Europe,
Hamilton, Edith, The Greek Way
Hammond, N G L, Alexander the Great
Hammond, N G L, The Genius of Alexander the Great
Han Woo-keun, History of Korea
Harbison, Harris E, The Age of Reformation
Harris, Seymour E, American Economic History
Harper and Brothers Publishers, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D Roosevelt
Hattan, R M, Charles XII of Sweden
Hatzfelt, Jean, The History of Ancient Greece
Hause, Steven and Maltby, William, Western Civilization: a History of European Society
Hayek, F A, The Constitution of Liberty
Haynes, Renée, Philosopher King: the Humanist Pope, Benedict XIV
Hayward, Stephen F, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order
Heiber, Helmut, Goebbels, tr John K Dickinson
Heilbruner, Robert L, The Worldly Philosophers
Herman, Arthur, Gandhi & Churchill, the Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged our Age
Herodotus, The Histories, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt and revised by AR Burn
Herrin, Judith, The Formation of Christendom
Hellie, Richard, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia 1600-1725
Hibler, Richard W, Life and Learning in Ancient Athens
Hill, Kim Quaile, Democracies in Crisis: Public Policy Responses to the Great Depression
Hobsbawm, E J, The Age of Revolution
Hodges, Gabrielle Ashford, Franco: a Concise Biography
Holborn, Hajo, A History of Modern Germany, 1648-1840
Holbrook, Richard, To End a War
Honderich, Ted, Conservatism
Hooper, Finley, Roman Realities
Huang, Ray, China, a Macro History
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn, Missionaries, Miners and Indians
Hughes, Lindsey, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great
Irving, Clive, Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History
Jacob, Margaret C, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans
Jahoda, Gustav, Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture
James, Edward, The Franks
James, Lawrence, Aristocrats
James, Lawrence, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Jones, JR, Charles II: Royal Politician
Jones, J Sydney, Hitler in Vienna, 1907 to 1913: Clues to the Future
Josephy, Alvin M, The Indian Heritage of America
July, Robert W, A History of the African People, Fourth Edition
Kagan, Donald, ed, The End of the Roman Empire
Kagan, Donald, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
Katz, Friedrich, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Katz, Solomon, Decline of Rome and the Rise of Medieaval Europe
Keddie, Nikki R, Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran
Kee, Howard Clark, et al, Christianity: a Social and Cultural History
Kempe, Frederick, Berlin 1961
Kennan, George F, Memoirs, 1925-1950, Volumes 1 & 2
Kennedy, Paul, Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kennedy, Paul, Preparing for the Twenty-first Century
Kertzer, David I, The Pope and Mussolini
Klein, Naomi, The Shock Doctrine
Khrushchev, Nikita, Khrushchev Remembers
Ki-baik Lee, A New History of Korea
Kiddie, Nikki R, Scholars, Saints and Sufis: Muslim Religious Institutions Since 1500
Kinzer, Stephen, All the Shah's Men
Kinzer, Stephen, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Kissenger, Henry, Diplomacy
Kissenger, Henry, Years of Upheaval
Knock, Thomas J, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the quest for a New World Order
Koran: First American Version, translated by TB Irving
Kramer, Samuel Noah, History Begins at Sumer
Kramer, Samuel Noah, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character
Krugman, Paul, The Conscience of a Liberal
Kulke and Rothermund, A History of India, Fourth Edition
Ky, Nguyen Cao, How We Lost the War in Vietnam
Kyemba, Henry, A State of Blood: the inside story of Idi Amin
Kynaston, David, Austerity Britain: 1945-51
Lacouture, Jean, Vietnam, between the Two Truces,1965
Lacroix, Paul, France in the Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs and Costumes
Lamb, Harold, Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All Men
Lang, Andrew, Myth, Ritual and Religion
Lange, Ursula, East Germany: What Happened to the Silesians in 1945?
Langer, Herbert, Thirty Years' War
Lapidus, Ira M, A History of Islamic Societies
Lekson, Stephen H, A History of the Ancient Southwest
Lerner, Robert E, The Age of Adversity: the Fourteenth Century
Leuchtenburg, William E, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32
Lewis, Bernard, Islam in History: Ideas, People and Events in the Middle East
Lewis, Bernard,The Emergence of Modern Turkey
Lewis, Bernard, and Buntzie Churchill, Islam: the Religion and the People
Lewis, Gwynne, The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate
Li, Dun J, The Ageless Chinese
Lieu, Samuel, Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East
Lieven, Dominic, The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914
Lister, RP, Genghis Khan
Liu, Xinru, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600
Livy, Titus Livius, History of Rome, translated by Aubrey De Selincourt
Livy, Titus Livius, Early History of Rome, Books I through V
Lloyd, Steton, Ancient Turkey: a Traveller's Guide of Anatolia
Lockmiller, David A, Sir William Blackstone
Loew, Cornelius, Myth, Sacred History, and Philosophy
Long, David E, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Lynch, John, Caudillos in Spanish America
Machtan, Lothar, The Hidden Hitler
McCullough, David, Truman
MacDonald, Callum A, Korea: The War Before Vietnam
McDougal, Susan, The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk
McKay, Hill and Buckler, A History of Western Society, Volumes I and 2, Fourth Edition
McLynn, Frank, Napoleon: a Biography
McMeekin, Sean, The Russian Origins of the First World War
McNally, Robert E, Luther, Erasmus and the Reformation: a Catholic-Protestant Reappraisal
McNeill, William H and Sedlar, Jean W, eds, Origins of Civilization, Readings in World History, Vol1
McNeill, William H, A World History
McNeill, William H, History of Western Civilization, Sixth Edition
Malcolm, Noel, Kosovo: a short History
Manchester, William, Amercian Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
Mango, Andrew, The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
Manning, Paul, Hirohito, the War Years
Manshreek, Clyde L, A History of Christianity in the World
Manuel, Frank, Scenes from the End: the Last Days of World War II in Europe
Marks, Robert B, The Origins of the Modern World: a Global and Ecological Narrative
Massie, Robert K, Peter the Great
Matlock, Jack F Jr, Superpower Illusions
Mazzolani, Lidia Storoni, Empire Without End
Mazzolani, Lidia Storoni, The Idea of the City in Roman Thought
Medvedev, Roy, Let History Judge
Meinecke, Friedrich, The German Catastrophe: Reflections and Recollections
Meyer, Milton V, Japan: a Concise History
Mombauer, Annika, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War
Montefiore, Simon, Young Stalin
Morgan, Ted, FDR: A Biography
Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Oxford History of the American People
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, A History of Japanese Economic Thought
Morris, Debra and Shapiro, Ian, editors, John Dewey, the Political Writings
Morris, Jan, Heaven's Command: an Imperial Progress
Muller, Herbert J, Freedom in the Modern World
Mutibwa, Phares, Uganda Since Independence
Nathan, John, Mishima: a biography
Neitzer, Sönke and Welzer, Harald, Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying, 2012
Nester, William R The Great Frontier War
Nettels, Curtis P, The Roots of American Civilization
Nilsson, Martin, Imperial Rome
Nimmo, William F, Behind a Curtain of Silence: Japanese in Soviet Custody, 1945-1956
Norwich, John Julius, A Short History of Byzantium
Norwich, John Julius, Byzantium: the Early Centuries, 1989
O'Connel, Robert L, Of Arms and Men
Oliver, Roland and Fage, J D, A Short History of Africa
Olson, Lynne, Troublesome Young Men
Olster, David Michael, The Politics of Usurpation in the Seventh Century: rhetoric and revolt in Byzantium
Oren, Michael B, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Oren, Michael B, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
Organ, Troy Wilson, Hinduism: Its Historical Development
Ort, LJR, Mani, a Religio-historical description of His Personality (a thesis)
Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia
Overy, Richard and Kaufman, Peter B, Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow
Owings, Alison, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich
Oxford History of the Classical World, Chapters 1 through 6
Pagden, Anthony, the Enlightement: And Why It Still Matters
Pagden, Anthony, Worlds at War: the 2,500-year struggle between East and West
Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve and the Serpant
Pagels, Elaine, The Origin of Satan
Painter, Nell Irvin, The History of White People
Palmer, Alan, Twilight of the Habsburgs: the Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph
Paludan, Ann, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: the Reign by Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China
Parker, Geoffrey, The Thirty Years' War
Parkison, Robert, Tormented Warrior
Pennell, C R, Morocco since 1830: a History
Perez, Louis B, The History of Japan
Perret, Geoffrey, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: the American People 1939-1945
Perret, Geoffrey, Eisenhower
Perret, Geoffrey, Jack: A Life Like No Other
Peters, F E, The Harvest of Hellenism
Petrow, Richard, The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-1945
Phillips, Kevin, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Phillips, Kevin, The Cousin's War: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo America
Phillips, Patricia, The Prehistory of Europe
Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Pipes, Richard, The Russian Revolution
Pipes, Richard, The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive
Pletsch, Carl, Young Nietzsche
Plotinus, The Enneads, edited and translated by Stephen McKenna
Plotinus, the Simplicity of Vision, translated by Pierre Hadot
Plutarch, Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Polybius, translated by Evelyn S Shuckburgh, Histories of Polybius
Polybius, The Histories, translated by W R Paton
Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert
Pomeranz, Kenneth and Topik, Steven, The World that Trade Created
Popkin, Jeremy, D, A Short History of the French Revolution
Porphyry, Against the Christians, edited and translated by R Joseph Hoffman
Posner, Ernst, Archives of the Ancient World
Posner, Gerald, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
Powelson, John, Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast
Prest, Wilfred, Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815
Pritchard, James B, ed, Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Rabe, Stephen G, Eisenhower, the Foreign Policy of Anticommuism, and Latin America
Radzinsky, Edvard, Stalin
Reader, John, Africa
Reagan, Ronald, An American Life: the autobiography
Reichauer, Edwin O, Japan: the Story of a Nation, Fourth Edition
Reitan, Earl A, The Thatcher Revolution
Reiterman, Tim, Raven: the Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People
Reston, James Jr, Warriors of God: Richard the Lionhearted and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Reuth, Ralf Georg, Goebbels
Reynolds, David, Summits: Six Meetings that shaped the Twentieth Century
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V, A History of Russia
Richardson, Louise, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
Ridley, Jasper, Mussolini
Rinderle, Walter, and Norling, Bernard, The Nazi Impact on a German Village
Ringgren, Helmer, Religions of the Ancient Near East
Roberts, J A G, Modern China
Roberts, J A G, China: A Complete History
Roberts, Michael, The Age of Liberty: Sweden 1719-1772
Roberts, Tolbert Jennifer, Athens on Trial
Rock, David, Argentina 1516-1982
Rooney, David, Kwame Nkrumah
Rorabaugh, W J, Berkeley at War, the 1960s
Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation, and French Agriculture, 1700-1860
Rostovtzeff, M, Rome
Russell, Bertrand, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Russell, Bertrand, Why I Am Not a Christian
Russell, Bertrand, The History of Western Philosophy
Russell, Bertrand, Wisdom of the West
Russell, D A, Plutarch
Saggs, H W F, Babylonians
Saggs, H W F, Civilization before Greece and Rome
Said, Edward W, Peace and its Discontents
Salvian the Presbyter, On the Government of God
Saunders, J J,The History of Medieval Islam
Sauvage, Leo, Che Guevara
Scalia, Antonin, A Matter of Interpretation
Scheck, Raffael, Alfted von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930
Scheina, Robert L, Santa Anna: A Curse upon Mexico
Schevill, Ferdinand, The History of the Balkan Peninsula
Scholefield, Alan, The Dark Kingdoms: Impact of White Civilization on Three Great African Monarchies
Scott-Stokes, Henry, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
Scullard, H H, A History of the Roman World, 757 to 146 BC, 4th Edition
Scullard, H H, Gracchi to Nero: a History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68
Sealy, Raphael, The History of the Greek City States
Searle, John R, Mind
Secher, Reynald, A French Genocide: the Vendée
Segal, Alan F, Rebecca's Children
Serge, Victor, Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Service, Robert, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
Seydewitz, Max, Civil Life in Wartime
Shanks, Edward, Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
Sharma, L P, A History of Ancient India
Shatter, David, Nero
Shillington, Kevin, History of Africa
Shipman, Pat, The Evolution of Racism
Short, Philip, Mao, a Life
Simpson, Brooks D, America's Civil War
Smith, Edward Ellis, The Young Stalin
Smith, Mark S, The Early History of God
Smith, Michael E, The Aztecs
Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Sokol, Edward D, Tamerlane
Soustelle, Jacques, Daily Life of the Aztecs
Southern, Pat, Augustus
Spaulding, Henry S, Chapters is Social History
Spengler, Joseph J, Indian Economic Thought: A Preface to Its History
Sperber, Jonathan, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
Starr, Chester G, A History of the Ancient World
Stobard, J C, The Grandeur that was Rome
Stockman, David, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
Streusand, Douglas, E, The Formation of the Mughal Empire
Swanberg, W A, Luce and His Empire
Sykes, Sir Percy, A History of the Persians, volume 1, third edition
Takemae Eiji, The Allied Occupation of Japan
Talbott, John, The War Without a Name
Tauber, Eliezer, The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq
Taylor, Alan, American Colonies
Taylor, A J P, The Struggle for the Mastery of Europe
Taylor, A J P, Origins of the Second World War
Taylor, A J P, The First World War: an Illustrated History
Taylor, Fred, editor, The Goebbels Diaries: 1939-1941
Temin, Peter, Lessons from the Great Depression
Thaden, Edward, Russia Since 1801
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, The Old Way: a Story of the First People
Thomas, Gordon and Witts, Max, Voyage of the Damned
Thomas, Hugh, The Cuban Revolution
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, translated by Walter Blanco
Tin-bor Hui, Victoria, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
Tolan, John, The Last 100 Days
Tolan, John, No Man's Land: 1918 the Last Year of the Great War
Tolan, John, The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Toynbee, Arnold, A Study of History
Toynbee, Arnold, Turkey
Trigger, Bruce G, et al, Ancient Egypt, A Social History
Trofimov, Yaroslav, The Seige of Mecca
Tsunoda, Ryusaku and de Bary, William Theodore, The Sources of Japanese Tradition
Tuchman, Barbara, The Guns of August
Tuchman, Barbara, The Proud Tower
Turnbull, Colin M, The Forest People
Ulam, Adam, Stalin: The Man and His Era
UNESCO, General History of Africa, Vol V, (16th to 18th Century)
Ungar, Sanford J, Africa
US News staff, Triumph without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War, Random House
Varshney, Ashutosh, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India
Ver Steeg, Clarence L, The Formative Years, 1607-1763
Walker, William, et al, A History of the Christian Church
Warraq, Ibn, editor, Quest for the Historical Muhammad
Weber, David J The Spanish Frontier in North America
Weber, Eugen, The Western Tradition
Weibull, Jörgen, Swedish History in Outline
Weigall, Arthur, Nero
Weinberg, Gerhard L, A World at Arms
Weinstein, Allen and Vassiliev, Alexander, The Haunted Wood
Wells, Peter S, Farms, Villages and Cities: Commerce and Urban Origins in Late Prehistoric Europe
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