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1. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

2. The Billy Ruffian : The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

3. Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal

4. Paradise of Cities : Venice In the 19th Century

5. Courtesans : Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

6. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cable

7. The Age of Empire 1875-1914

8. Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives

9. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

10. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niņo Famines and the Making of the Third World

 

Recommended Reading

Eyewitness to the 20th Century
National Geographic

The Century
by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster

Outline of History
H. G. Wells /  1974

Mein Kampf
Adolph Hitler /  1997
Hitler warned the world before he took power. Decide for yourself!

Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Fredriech Engels /  1989

The Tragedy of Lin Biao : Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution 1966-1971
Frederick C. Teiwes, Warren Sun / 1996

The Tao of Physics : An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Fritjof Capra /  1991

cover The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang / 1997

 

 

1989 : The Year the World Changed
Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz / 1995

Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors
Jack Winocour / 1960

Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Stephen E. Ambrose / 1997

Inside the Titanic : A Giant Cut-Away Book
Ken Marschall (Illustrator), Hugh Brewster / 1997

Churchill and Secret Service
David Stafford / Hardcover / Published 1998

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond /  1997

Titanic Survivor : The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop
Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters

Violet Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham /  1997

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang / Paperback / 1992

On War
Carl Von Clausewitz (Editor) / 1984
Read from the master of western warfare.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich : A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer / 1991

After the Cold War : Essays on the Emerging World Order
Keith Philip Lepor (Editor) /  1997

Aftermath : Travels in a Post-War World
Farley Mowat / 1997

Against All Hope : Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps 1938-1945
Hermann Langbein, Harry Zohn (Translator) / 1996

The Age of Extremes : A History of the World, 1914-1991
E. J. Hobsbawm, Eric Hobsbawm /  1996

Age of Louis XIV Vol 8
Will Durant, Ariel Durant / 1983

The Age of Napoleon : A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 (Story of Civilization, 11)
Will Durant, Ariel Durant /  1997

Altered States : A Reader in the New World Order
Phyllis Bennis  / 1997

The Altruistic Personality : Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe
Samuel P. Oliner, Pearl M. Oliner / 1992

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