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Agincourt, France

• The Face of Battle by John Keegan

Antioch

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman

Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

• The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush (childhood)

Auschwitz, Poland

• Auschwitz: The Nazis & the "Final Solution' by Laurence Rees

Australia

• The Australian National Dictionary: A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles by W. S. Ramson (ed.)
• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes

Baghdad, Iraq

• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage) by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Baker, Montana, USA

• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

Bear Valley

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Berlin, Germany

• A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
• Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich
• Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov

Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, UK

• The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

Broadmoor Hospital, Crawthorne, Berkshire, England

• The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

Buda Pest, Hungary

• The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush (birth)

Cairo, Egypt

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman

Calcutta, India

• Calcutta by Geoffrey Moorhouse

California, USA

• Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation by Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Chicago, Illinois, USA

• Division Street: America by Studs Terkel

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Constantinople

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman
• Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel

Cornwall, England, UK

• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst

Crawthorne, Berkshire, England

• The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

Cuba

• Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) by Dr. Kristin L. Hoganson

Damascus, Syria

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman

East Asia

• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower

East Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

Edessa

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman

England, UK

• England Under Hitler by Comer CLARKE
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool

Flint, Michigan, USA

• Rivethead : tales from the assembly line by Ben Hamper

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

• Great Ages of Man: Renaissance: A History of the World's Cultures, Time Life Books by John R. Hale
• The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli

France

• A Distant Mirror - the Calamitious 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
• Sun King : Louis Fourteenth at Versailles by Nancy Mitford

Gallipoli, Turkey

• A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

Germany

• Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander
• The Denazification of Germany 1945-1950 by Perry Biddiscombe
• Social History of the Third Reich by Richard Grunberger
• Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 by David Schoenbaum

Goodwin Sands

• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst

Guernsey, Channel Islands

• The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting

Hawai'i, USA

• Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands by Gavan Daws

Hiroshima, Japan

• HIROSHIMA (TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS S.) by JOHN HERSEY

Humboldt River

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

India

• FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT by LARRY COLLINS AND DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE
• The Men Who Ruled India by Philip Mason

Ireland

• Nationalism in Ireland by D. George Boyce
• Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 (Penguin history) by R. F. Foster

Ismay, Montana, USA

• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

Istanbul, Turkey

• Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel

Italy

• DUCE!: RISE AND FALL OF BENITO MUSSOLINI by RICHARD COLLIER

Japan

• Japan in War and Peace by John Dower
• THE IMAGE OF JAPAN: FROM FEUDAL ISOLATION TO WORLD POWER, 1850-1905. by Jean-Pierre: Lehmann
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• HIROSHIMA (TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS S.) by JOHN HERSEY
• A History of Modern Japan by Richard Storry
• Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower

Jedwabne, Poland

• Neighbours: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, 1941 by Jan T. Gross

Jersey, Channel Islands

• Jersey Under the Jackboot by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham
• The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting

Jerusalem

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman

Joe, Montana, USA

• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

Johnson's Ranch

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Kigali, Rwanda

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

Krishnapur

• The siege of Krishnapur / J.G. Farrell (Warner Books 79-994) by J. G Farrell (fictional)

Latin America

• A History of Latin America by George Pendle

Lattimer, Pennsylvania, USA

• A Coal Miner's Bride: the Diary of Anetka Kaminska by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Lincoln, Montana, USA

• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

London, England, UK

• The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks by Steven Johnson
• The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath by Charles van Onselen
• The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London by Daniel Hahn
• Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19th Century London by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq
• The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst
• London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis (Yale Nota Bene) by Professor Jonathan Schneer

Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

• Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas

Marmarth, North Dakota, USA

• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

Medieval France

• Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324 by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Montaillou, France

• Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324 by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Naples, Campania, Italy

• Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis

Nazi Germany

• Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander

The Netherlands

• The Dutch Seaborne Empire: 1600-1800 (Pelican) by C. R Boxer

New South Wales, Australia

• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes

New York, New York, USA

• Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway by Jerome Charyn
• Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas
• Gay New York: The Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
• Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury

Newfoundland, Canada

• Come from Away by David Macfarlane

Norfolk, England, UK

• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst

Pacific Ocean

• Day of Infamy by Walter Lord
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower

Paris, France

• Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
• Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet (Genet) Flanner
• Is Paris Burning?: How Paris Miraculously Escaped Adolf Hitler's Sentence of Death in August 1944 by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
• Paris in the Terror by Stanley Loomis

Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA

• Day of Infamy by Walter Lord

Pentland Firth

• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst

The Philippines

• Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) by Dr. Kristin L. Hoganson

Rwanda

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

Salt Lake Desert

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

San Francisco, California, USA

• The San Francisco Earthquake by Gordon Thomas And Max Morgan Witts

Sark, Channel Islands

• The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting

The Scilly Isles

• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst

Seville, Spain

• The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Professor Henry Kamen

Somme, Picardy, France

• The Face of Battle by John Keegan

South China Sea

• Tales from the South China seas : images of the British in South-east Asia in the twentieth century by Charles Allen

Southeast Asia

• Tales from the South China seas : images of the British in South-east Asia in the twentieth century by Charles Allen
• Southeast Asia : an illustrated introductory history by Milton E. Osborne

Spain

• ISABELLA OF SPAIN by William T. Walsh
• The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Professor Henry Kamen
• Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) by Dr. Kristin L. Hoganson

St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK

• The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst

Sutter's Fort

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes

Tangier, Morocco

• Tangier: City of the Dream by Iain Finlayson

Tower of London

• The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London by Daniel Hahn (London, England, UK)

Truckee Lake/ Donner Lake

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Truckee Meadows

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Truckee River

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Tyre

• The First Crusade by Steven Runciman

UK

• The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

USA

• The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
• Made in America by Bill Bryson
• Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements by David Nasaw
• Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's by Frederick Lewis Allen
• The Holocaust and Collective Memory by Peter Novick
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower
• Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) by Dr. Kristin L. Hoganson

Valladolid, Spain

• The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Professor Henry Kamen

Vatican City

• Saints & Sinners - by Eamon Duffy -

Versailles, France

• Sun King : Louis Fourteenth at Versailles by Nancy Mitford

Vietnam

• Two Cities: Hanoi and Saigon by Neil Sheehan
• The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Remarkable Story of the Vietnam War by Tom Mangold

Wasatch Mountains

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart

Washington, D.C., USA

• Washington Goes to War: The Extraordinary Story of the Transformation of a City and a Nation by David Brinkley
• The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop

Waterloo, Belgium

• The Face of Battle by John Keegan

Wickepin, Western Australia, Australia

• A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

Yerba Buena

• Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart