Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Adam Hochschild

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

Shashi Tharoor

Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World

Nicola Di Cosmo

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya (Unearthing the Past)

David Stuart

How Black Music Took Over the World

Melvin Gibbs

A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South

Melvin Ely

The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters

Christian Ingrao

The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II

Maria De Blasio Wilhelm

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

John Lewis Gaddis

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India

Josy Joseph

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Ann Shen Legendary Ladies Collection)

Ann Shen

Schindler’s List

Thomas Keneally

The Romanian Revolution of December 1989

Peter Siani-Davies

The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions

Ozan Ozavci

Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Miriam Gebhardt

Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (New Approaches to the Americas)

John Robert McNeill

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Johny Pitts

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

China Miéville

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil MacGregor

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

John Robert McNeill

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhy

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Richard Ovenden