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17th century

• The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō

18th century

• The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

19th century

• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

2008-2009 Recession

• Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters by Timothy Keller

4th century BCE

• The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
• The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
• Politics (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy) by Aristotle
• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato

Afghan Civil War

• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Alexander the Great's Conquest

• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

American Civil War

• Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk (1865)

American Revolution

• A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Anglo-French War

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1629)

Apocalypse

• Father Elijah: An Apocalypse by Michael O'Brien

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland

Augustine's conversion

• The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of Hippo

Battle of Actium

• A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Adowa

• A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Adrianople

• A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Cannae

• A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Fleurus

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1622)

Battle of Freiburg

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1644)

Battle of Jankau

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1645)

Battle of Lens

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Battle of Leuctra

• A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Lutter

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1626-08-17)

Battle of Lützen

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1632)

Battle of Mergentheim

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1645)

Battle of Prague

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Battle of Rheinfelden

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1638)

Battle of Rocroi

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1643)

Battle of Salamis

• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland (480 BCE-09)

Battle of Stadtlohn

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1623-08-06)

Battle of Stralsund

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1628)

Battle of the Alte Veste

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1632)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King by Tolkien J. R. R.
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Tuttlingen

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1643)

Battle of White Mountain

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1620-11-08)

Battle of Wimpfen

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1622-05-06)

Battle of Wittstock

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1636)

Battle of Wolgast

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1631)

Battle of Zusmarshausen

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Booker T. Washington dines with Theodore Roosevelt at the White House

• Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis

Bosnian War

• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (1992-1995)

Christmas

• Basic Christianity (IVP Classics) by John Stott
• Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith by Wayne Grudem
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• Church History In Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley
• Concise Theology by J. I. Packer
• Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2) by N. T. Wright
• Knowing God by J. I. Packer

Cold War

• The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Conquest of Canaan

• Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense Of The Old Testament God by Paul Copan

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Creation

• Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics S.) by John Milton

Crimean War

• The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Cultural Revolution

• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• Lewis Agonistes: How C.S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World by Louis Markos

Death of Alexander the Great

• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

the death of Grendel

• Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth by Carol Rose

Death of Julius Caesar

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (44 BCE-03-15)

Death of Muhammad

• In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire by Tom Holland (632)

Decolonization of Africa

• The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire by Bruce Gilley

Defenestration of Prague

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1618-05-23)

Deportation of Hungarian Jews

• Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli (1944)

Easter

• Basic Christianity (IVP Classics) by John Stott
• Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith by Wayne Grudem
• Church History In Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley
• Concise Theology by J. I. Packer
• The Cross of Christ by John Stott
• Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2) by N. T. Wright
• Knowing God by J. I. Packer
• The Passion of Jesus Christ: Fifty Reasons Why He Came to Die by John Piper

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Silence by Shūsaku Endō

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Enlightenment

• The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding

European migrant crisis

• The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray (2015)

Fall of Rome

• City of God (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine

First Battle of Breitenfeld

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1631)

First Battle of Nördlingen

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1634)

Founding the Catholic Worker, 1933

• The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy Day

French Revolution

• The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
• The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Carlyle (1789)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

General Strike of 1926

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Great Migration

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Great Purge

• The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest

The Great Replacement

• The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray

Greco-Persian Wars

• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland (449 BCE)

Holocaust

• Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
• Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide by Robert Lifton
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
• The Theory and Practice of Hell by Eugene Kogan
• The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Kristallnacht

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Maccabean Revolt

• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Middle Ages

• Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) by Sir Thomas Malory
• The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George MacDonald

Moscow Trials

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Murder of Theo van Gogh

• Infidel by aayan hirst ali

My Lai Massacre

• Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (1815)
• The Idiot (Modern Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1803-1815)

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
• Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram

Obedience experiment at Bridgeport

• Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram

October Revolution

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Olympic Games

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1936)

Pax Romana

• Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Peace of Augsburg

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1555)

Peace of Prague

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1635)

Peace of Westphalia

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Persian Wars

• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Polish-Swedish War

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1629)

Post World War II

• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Protestant Reformation

• HERE I STAND: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Rape of Cologne

• The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray (2016)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

Roman Invasion of Britain

• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal

• The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray (1980-)

Russian Civil War

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917)

Sack of Magdeburg

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1631)

Sack of Rome

• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Sacrifice of Isaac

• Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense Of The Old Testament God by Paul Copan

The Satanic Verses controversy

• The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray (1989)

Second Battle of Breitenfeld

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1642)

Second Battle of Nördlingen

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1645)

Second Intifada

• Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland (479 BCE)

Seige of Orenburg

• The Captain's Daughter (Hesperus Classics) by Alexander Pushkin (1773-1774)

Shoah

• Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli

Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1622)

Siege of Breda

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1625)

Siege of Heidelberg

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1622-09-19)

Siege of Jülich

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1622)

Siege of Nuremberg

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1632)

Siege of Rheinfelden

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1633)

Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1627)

Siege of Sarajevo

• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (1992)

Silver Springs Monkey Case

• A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement by Wesley J. Smith (1981)

Soviet-Afghan War

• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid (1979 ∙ 1989)

Stalinism

• One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ([1924, 1953])

Thirty Years' War

• The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics) by C. V. Wedgwood
• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Treaty of Stettin

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1630)

Trial of Adolf Eichmann

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Victorian Era

• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens

Vietnam War

• Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
• Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster (1959-1975)

War of the Mantuan Succession

• The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (1631)

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1968)

Winter

• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

World War I

• The 39 Steps by John Buchan
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
• C. S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to His Life & Works by Walter Hooper (1918)

World War II

• Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
• The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
• The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide by Robert Lifton
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
• The Screwtape Letters: Signature Classics (Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis) by C. S. Lewis
• 1984 by George Orwell ( 1945)
• Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli (1945)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh ( 1945)
• The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1945)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie Ten Boom (1945-05-05)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell