This is a list, without copying the discussion, salvaged from the "History: TWOIandLFI" Group. The topic was "Your favorite 3 books of history?"
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
Atlas of World History, concise edition by Patrick O'Brien
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Marlborough: His Life and Times by Winston S. Churchill
Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 2: Count… by Francis Parkman
Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
A World at Arms by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
A History of Rome: Down to the Reign of Constantine by M. Cary
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse
A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement… by James Green
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Joan of Arc: Her Story by Regine Pernoud
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most… by John Kelly
1776 by David McCullough
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt by Nina Burleigh
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel; Technology and Invention in the… by Frances Gies
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of… by Will Cuppy
Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency by William P. Bundy
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794 by Graeme Fife
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western… by Jacques Barzun
Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
A Devil of a Whipping by Lawrence E. Babits
The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to… by John Dinges
Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
The March of Folly; From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun King by Louis Auchincloss
The Norsemen in the Viking Age (The Peoples of Europe) by Eric Christiansen
The Basques (Peoples of Europe) by Roger Collins
The Mongols (The Peoples of Europe) by David Morgan
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson
Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller
Message edited by its author, Apr 10, 2009, 12:57am.
Nice work.
Thanks Stellar! It's unfortunate we all had to go thru so much just to recover the common intellectual property that was ours prior to that group being so rudely yanked away. I applaud your effort in reconstructing the reading list.
Can't "recommend" it, exactly, as I've not yet read it, but I saw it (or, rather a new edition/reprint of it) come through work today and thought it looked interesting:
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan.
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