BEST BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND XX CENTURY'S HISTORY

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The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1,013 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
965 members
10 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
by Jacques Barzun
4,109 members
42 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
by Paul Johnson
1,262 members
16 reviews
4.1
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
by Conrad Black
536 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
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We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history
by John Lewis Gaddis
384 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,735 members
1,452 reviews
4.2
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,613 members
232 reviews
4
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La prima guerra mondiale
by Pierre Renouvin
71 members
2.9
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10
The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
3,168 members
89 reviews
½ 4.3
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Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
by Jack Matlock
116 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
1,457 members
18 reviews
4.2
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The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War
by Stanley G. Payne
66 members
1 review
4.2
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The Age of Extremes : A History of the World, 1914-1991
by Eric Hobsbawm
3,437 members
37 reviews
4.1
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The Revolt of the Masses
by José Ortega y Gasset
2,159 members
31 reviews
3.9
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An American Life: The Autobiography
by Ronald Reagan
1,106 members
12 reviews
4
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
12,977 members
240 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Road to Serfdom
by F. A. Hayek
3,119 members
39 reviews
4.2
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Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger
2,698 members
17 reviews
4.1
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America's Great Depression
by Murray Rothbard
379 members
4 reviews
4.2
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21
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
by Niall Ferguson
585 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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Centesimus Annus: On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
by John Paul II
382 members
12 reviews
3.9
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23
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
3,653 members
57 reviews
4.1
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24
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
4,170 members
100 reviews
½ 4.4
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25
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
337 members
3 reviews
4.1
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,974 members
121 reviews
4
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28
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington
3,778 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
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29
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu
3,214 members
64 reviews
3.8
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Del buen salvaje al buen revolucionario
by Carlos Rangel
34 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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32
The Abolition of Man
by C. S. Lewis
7,884 members
72 reviews
4.1
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33
A world transformed
by George H. W. Bush
272 members
1 review
3
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34
The Nineties: A Book
by Chuck Klosterman
1,049 members
42 reviews
3.9
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
by William Rosen
87 members
2 reviews
4.1
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India: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
351 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
by Peter Paret
775 members
4 reviews
3.9
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
by Aleksandr Fursenko
283 members
4 reviews
4
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Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin
by John Barron
127 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
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41
A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Ian J. Bickerton
97 members
4
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42
Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy
by Diane B. Kunz
12 members
4
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43
The Downing Street Years
by Margaret Thatcher
1,296 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
by Yasmin Khan
332 members
3 reviews
3.9
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
by Ken Adelman
88 members
3.9
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46
American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
by Robert D. Schulzinger
37 members
4
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Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
by Benjamin A. Valentino
46 members
3.9
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Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev
171 members
2.9
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Reagan: The Life
by H. W. Brands
461 members
9 reviews
4
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The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
by Milton Bearden
335 members
3 reviews
4
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Gaza: A History
by Jean-Pierre Filiu
89 members
1 review
½ 2.5
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Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben Macintyre
1,250 members
46 reviews
3.9
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
by Mark Bowden
799 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
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Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988
by James G. Blight
14 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
by Elaine Sciolino
311 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (The Global Century Series)
by David Reynolds
134 members
1 review
½ 3.4