The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List discussion
note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
Chapter 16: History
>
Four Score and Lots of Years Ago - Chapter 16 book list
date
newest »

U.S.A.: LET FREEDOM RING
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
1776 by David McCullough
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus Bordewich
The Civil War by Shelby Foote
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Stevenson
Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Johm Berendt
No Ordinary Times: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front on World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
The River of Doubt: Theadore Rooselvelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everyrhing to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of Worls War IIby Robert Kurson
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Undaunted Courage: Mertwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
1776 by David McCullough
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus Bordewich
The Civil War by Shelby Foote
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Stevenson
Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Johm Berendt
No Ordinary Times: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front on World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
The River of Doubt: Theadore Rooselvelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everyrhing to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of Worls War IIby Robert Kurson
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Undaunted Courage: Mertwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
WORLD: EVENTS THAT ROCKED THE GLOBE
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
Bounty: The True Story of Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
A Bright Shining Lie: Johan Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L Friedman
Ghost Stories: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides
The Great Infuenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role in the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Eurpoe by Thomas Cahill
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It by Arthur Herman
The Ice Masters: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Kurluk by Jennifer Niven
King Leopold's Ghost :A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochchilds
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds and the World by Stefan Kanfer
The Longest Day: A Classic Epic of D-Day by Cornelius Ryan
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillian
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Rise and Fall Of the Third Reich by William Shirer
The Six Wives of Henery VIII by Alison Weir
The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
Bounty: The True Story of Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
A Bright Shining Lie: Johan Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L Friedman
Ghost Stories: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides
The Great Infuenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role in the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Eurpoe by Thomas Cahill
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It by Arthur Herman
The Ice Masters: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Kurluk by Jennifer Niven
King Leopold's Ghost :A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochchilds
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds and the World by Stefan Kanfer
The Longest Day: A Classic Epic of D-Day by Cornelius Ryan
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillian
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Rise and Fall Of the Third Reich by William Shirer
The Six Wives of Henery VIII by Alison Weir
The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.
World: events the rocked the globe