Paul M. Kennedy

Help LibraryThing improve these recommendations by rating them below. As members add ratings, they move recommendations up and down, on and off the list. Be sure to rate the recommendation, not just the author recommended. All things being equal, more than three stars sends it up, less than three stars sends it down.

1. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

2. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

3. Paul M. Kennedy

   Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery

4. Henry Kissinger

   Author of Diplomacy, The White House Years, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822

5. A. J. P. Taylor

   Author of The Origins of The Second World War, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918, Germany's First Bid for Colonies, 1884-1885; A Move in Bismarck's European Policy, (Norton Library (Paperback))

6. Paul Johnson

   Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830

7. Neil Sheehan

   Author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

8. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

9. Francis Fukuyama

   Author of Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

10. Peter Paret

    Author of Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, Clausewitz and the State

11. Samuel P. Huntington

    Author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

12. Stanley Karnow

    Author of Vietnam: A History

13. Philip Bobbitt

    Author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

14. James M. McPherson

    Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

15. Daniel Yergin

    Author of The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

16. David Fromkin

    Author of A peace to end all peace

17. Gerhard L. Weinberg

    Author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

18. Niall Ferguson

    Author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Pity of War

19. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Dreadnought

20. David Halberstam

    Author of The Best and the Brightest