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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

16th century

• English diaries of the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries by James Aitken

17th century

• English diaries of the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries by James Aitken

1898

• The Webbs' Australian diary 1898 by Beatrice Webb

18th century

• English diaries of the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries by James Aitken
• Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 by Orlando Figes

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Captain Corelli's mandolin by Louis De Bernières

19th century

• English letters of the XIX century by James Aitken
• Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 by Orlando Figes

20th century

• Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 by Orlando Figes

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Captain Corelli's mandolin by Louis De Bernières (September 1943)

Abdication of Edward VIII

• Counting one's blessings : the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain
• A king's story : the memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor by Duke of Edward Windsor
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross (1936)

Accession of Victoria

• Victoria by Elizabeth Longford (1837)

Afghan Wars

• The great war for civilisation : the conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2001-)

Afghanistan War

• Known and unknown : a memoir by Donald Rumsfeld

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn
• Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor by Bertrand Russell

Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe

• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Charles Mackay

Allied Occupation of Japan

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1952)

Allied occupation of Japan

• Embracing defeat : Japan in the aftermath of World War II by John W. Dower (1952)

American Civil War

• The growth of the American Republic by Samuel Eliot Morison
• The Penguin history of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
• The lion and the unicorn : Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous (1865)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1865)
• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• Throes of democracy : the American Civil War era, 1829-1877 by Walter A. McDougall (1865)

American Enlightenment

• The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

American Revolution

• George III: America’s Last King (The English Monarchs Series) by Jeremy Black
• The growth of the American Republic by Samuel Eliot Morison
• The House : the history of the House of Representatives by Robert Vincent Remini
• The Penguin history of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
• The New Cambridge modern history : Vol.8. The American and French revolutions 1763-93 by A. Goodwin (1783)
• The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1783)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

Amritsar Massacre

• The butcher of Amritsar : General Reginald Dyer by N. A. Collett (1919)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Anglo-Saxon chronicle by George Norman Garmonsway
• Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman conquest by H. R. Loyn
• An introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair
• The Latin charters of the Anglo-Saxon period by F. M. Stenton
• Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel : with supplementary extracts from the others by John Earle

Anglo-Irish Treaty

• David Lloyd George : the great outsider by Roy Hattersley
• The Decline And Fall Of Lloyd George by Lord Beaverbrook
• Lloyd George: a diary by Frances Lloyd George
• Peace by ordeal : an account, from first-hand sources, of the negotiation and signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921 by Earl of Frank Pakenham Longford
• Tempestuous Journey by Frank Owen
• Thoughts and adventures by Winston S. Churchill
• De Valera - Long Fellow, Long Shadow by Tim Pat Coogan

Anschluss

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Anti-Rent War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1839)

appeasement

• Guilty men by Cato.,

Arab Revolt

• The essential T.E. Lawrence by T. E. Lawrence (1918)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (1918)

Assassination of Lord Louis Moutbatten

• Mountbatten : the official biography by Philip Ziegler

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Second World War. Vol.3, The Grand alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1941-12-07)

Attica Prison Riot

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1971)

Australian federal election

• From Curtin to Kerr by Fred Daly (1972)

Australian Federation

• The Australian century : political struggle in the building of a nation by Robert Manne (1901)

Australian Labor Party split

• The split : Australian Labor in the fifties by Robert Murray (1955)

Australian Referendum

• The 1926 referendum by Aaron Wildavsky (1926)

Bacon's Rebellion

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1676)

Balfour Declaration

• The Balfour Declaration : the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict by Jonathan Schneer

Balkan Wars

• The Balkans, 1804-1999 : nationalism, war and the great powers by Misha Glenny
• MEMOIRS OF THE BOBOTES by Joyce Cary

Battle of Agincourt

• King Henry V by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Berlin

• Berlin : the downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
• King Richard III by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Finest hour by Tim Clayton
• The Second World War. Vol.2, Their finest hour by Winston S. Churchill (1940)

Battle of Crécy

• Trial by fire by Jonathan Sumption

Battle of Dunkirk

• Finest hour by Tim Clayton
• The miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord (1940-06-04)

Battle of Hastings

• The Saxon & Norman kings by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1066-10-14)

Battle of Lepanto

• Infidels : a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam by Andrew Wheatcroft

Battle of Marathon

• The histories by Herodotus. (490 BCE)

Battle of Midway

• The Second World War. Vol.3, The Grand alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1942-06-07)

Battle of Mons Graupius

• Tacitus on Britain and Germany : a new translation of the Agricola and the Germania by Cornelius Tacitus

Battle of Omdurman

• My Early Life by Sir Winston Churchill

Battle of Passchendaele

• Passchendaele: The Untold Story; Third Edition by Robin Prior (1917)

Battle of Philippi

• Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy (42 BCE)

Battle of Poitiers

• Trial by fire by Jonathan Sumption

Battle of Salamis

• The histories by Herodotus. (480 BCE-09)

Battle of Stalingrad

• Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (1943)

Battle of Stoke Field

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Battle of the Bulge

• Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (1945)

Battle of the Coral Sea

• The Second World War. Vol.3, The Grand alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1942-05-08)

Battle of the Somme

• In command of history : Churchill fighting and writing the Second World War by David Reynolds (1916)
• The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook (1916-11-18)
• The First World War by John Keegan (1916-11-18)
• The Somme by Robin Prior (1916-11-18)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The histories by Herodotus. (480 BCE)

Bill of Rights

• The House : the history of the House of Representatives by Robert Vincent Remini

The Blitz

• Finest hour by Tim Clayton

Bolshevik Revolution

• Stalin : a biography by Robert Service (1917)

Bombing of Dresden

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A history of modern Libya by Dirk J. Vandewalle (1986)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Bosnian War

• The death of Yugoslavia by Laura Silber

Brexit

• All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman
• Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times by Sasha Swire
• Fall out : a year of political mayhem by Tim Shipman
• For the Record by David Cameron
• Politics: The Art of the Possible in an Age of Unreason by Nick Clegg

British Enlightenment

• The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

British Raj

• An autobiography, or, The story of my experiments with truth by Mahatma Gandhi (1947)
• The butcher of Amritsar : General Reginald Dyer by N. A. Collett (1947)
• Curzon : imperial statesman by David Gilmour (1947)
• Raj : the making and unmaking of British India by Lawrence James (1947)

Burma Campaign

• Hellfire : the story of Australia, Japan and the prisoners of war by Cameron Forbes (1945)
• Mountbatten : the official biography by Philip Ziegler (1945)
• The war diaries of Weary Dunlop : Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945 by E. E. Dunlop (1945)
• Weary : the life of Sir Edward Dunlop by Sue Ebury (1945)

Camp David Accords

• White House diary by Jimmy Carter (1978)

Chilean Coup

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Chinese Civil War

• Mao : the unknown story by Jung Chang

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• Mao : the unknown story by Jung Chang
• Tombstone : the untold story of Mao's great famine by Jisheng Yang

Civil War

• The House : the history of the House of Representatives by Robert Vincent Remini

Cold War

• 'Never despair' : Winston S. Churchill 1945-1965 by Martin Gilbert
• Diplomacy (Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger
• The division of the world, 1941-1955 by Wilfried Loth
• The House : the history of the House of Representatives by Robert Vincent Remini
• Iron Curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
• Khrushchev : the man : his era by William Taubman
• The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
• The Macmillan diaries by Harold Macmillan
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn
• Postwar : a history of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt
• Europe: grandeur and decline by A. J. P. Taylor (1991)

Communist China

• The search for modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (1949-)

Congress of Berlin

• The lion and the unicorn : Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous (1878)

Congress of Vienna

• Diplomacy (Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger

Constitutional Convention

• The Penguin history of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David G. McCullough

Corn Laws

• From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective (The MIT Press) by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

Council of Nicaea

• A history of Christianity : the first three thousand years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Council of Trent

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1545–1563)

Counter-Reformation

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Crimean War

• Europe: grandeur and decline by A. J. P. Taylor (1856)
• The lion and the unicorn : Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous (1856)

The Crusades

• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Charles Mackay

Crusades

• Europe : a history by Norman Davies
• The popes : a history by John Julius Norwich

Cuban Revolution

• Khrushchev remembers by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1959)

Cultural Revolution

• Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dik©œtter
• Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar
• Quotations from chairman Mao Tse-tung by Zedong Mao

Cyclone Nargis

• The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U

Death of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Death of Socrates

• The last days of Socrates by Plato.

Declaration of Independence

• The Penguin history of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan

Dismissal of the Lang Government

• Dismissal of a Premier : the Philip Game papers by Bethia Foott (1932-05-13)

Dismissal of the Whitlam Government

• Australian national government by L. F. Crisp (1975-11-11)
• The dismissal : Australia's most sensational power struggle : the dramatic fall of Gough Whitlam by Paul Kelly (1975-11-11)
• Kerr's king hit by C. J. Lloyd (1975-11-11)
• Matters for judgment : an autobiography by Sir John Kerr (1975-11-11)
• The truth of the matter by Gough Whitlam (1975-11-11)

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

• A history of modern Russia : from Nicholas II to Putin by Robert Service

Dorr Rebellion

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1842)

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Finest hour by Tim Clayton
• The miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord (1940-06-04)

Dutch Reformation

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Dutch Revolt

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Easter Rising, 1916

• De Valera - Long Fellow, Long Shadow by Tim Pat Coogan

Edict of Nantes

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1598)

Edwardian Era

• The Edwardians : the remaking of British society by Paul Richard Thompson
• Eminent Edwardians by Piers Brendon
• Liberalism and liberal politics in Edwardian England by George Lurcy Bernstein
• Lloyd George by Peter Rowland

El Mozote Massacre

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1981)

Elizabethan Era

• The Elizabethan House of Commons by Sir. John Ernest Neale

Emancipation Proclamation

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-01-01)

English Civil War

• The world turned upside down; radical ideas during the English revolution by Christopher Hill
• God's fury, England's fire : a new history of the English Civil Wars by M. J. Braddick (1641–1651)
• The tyrannicide brief by Geoffrey Robertson (1651)

English colonization of North America

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

English Reformation

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Entente Cordiale of 1904

• Europe: grandeur and decline by A. J. P. Taylor

Eureka Stockade

• Australians. Volume 1, Origins to Eureka by Thomas Keneally

Execution of Charles I

• The Trial of Charles I. [With plates, including portraits.] by C. V. Wedgwood
• The tyrannicide brief by Geoffrey Robertson

Execution of Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Execution of Perkin Warbeck

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Falklands War

• Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography. Volume one, Not for turning by Charles Moore
• Not for turning : the life of Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris
• Fifty years on : a prejudiced history of Britain since the war by Roy Hattersley (1982)

Fall of Communism

• A history of modern Russia : from Nicholas II to Putin by Robert Service
• The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

Fall of Constantinople

• The popes : a history by John Julius Norwich

Fall of France

• Finest hour by Tim Clayton
• The miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord (1940-06-22)

Fall of Man

• The world turned upside down; radical ideas during the English revolution by Christopher Hill

Fall of Rome

• Concerning the city of God against the pagans by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

Fall of Singapore

• In command of history : Churchill fighting and writing the Second World War by David Reynolds (1942)
• The Second World War. Vol.3, The Grand alliance by Winston S. Churchill (1942-02-15)

Fall of the Roman Empire

• The fall of the Roman Empire by P. J. Heather

Fall of the Roman Republic

• Fall of the Roman Republic: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero: six lives by Plutarch.

Federalist Era

• John Adams by David G. McCullough (U.S. history ∙ 1789 ∙ 1801)

Federation of Australia

• Becoming Australians : the movement towards Federation in Ballarat and the Nation by Kevin Livingston (1901-01-01)
• South Australia and federation by P. A. Howell (1901-01-01)
• Supreme Federalist: The Political Life of Sir John Downer by J.C. Bannon (1901-01-01)

Feminist Movement

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn

First female Republican Vice Presidential candidate [2008]

• Going rogue : an American life by Sarah Palin

Flour Riot of 1837

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn

Free Trade

• From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective (The MIT Press) by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

French Enlightenment

• The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

French Revolution

• Children of the revolution : the French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea
• The French Revolution. From 1793 to 1799 by Georges Lefebvre
• Interpretations of the French Revolution by George Rudé
• The Oxford history of the French Revolution by William Doyle
• The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner
• The age of revolution : Europe, 1789-1848 by E. J. Hobsbawm (1789)
• Citizens : a chronicle of the French revolution by Simon Schama (1789)
• The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre (1789)
• The New Cambridge modern history : Vol.8. The American and French revolutions 1763-93 by A. Goodwin (1799)
• Reflections on the revolution in France : and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event by Edmund Burke (1799)
• Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815 by George F. E. Rudé (1789)
• The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1799)
• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

French Wars of Religion

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Gallipoli Campaign

• The First World War by John Keegan (1916-01-09)
• A fortunate life by A. B. Facey (1916-01-09)
• Gallipoli by Les Carlyon (1916-01-09)
• Gelibolu Mitin Sonu by Robin Prior (1916-01-09)

General Strike of 1926

• The General Strike by Margaret Morris
• The General Strike : a historical portrait by Julian Symons
• Lloyd George: a diary by Frances Lloyd George
• The past masters : politics and politicians, 1906-1939 by Harold Macmillan
• Whitehall diary by Thomas Jones

Georgian Era

• A polite and commercial people : England, 1727-1783 by Paul Langford (1837)

German Peasants' War

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1524-1525)

German Reformation

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Gettysburg Address

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-11)

Gilded Age

• The night lives on by Walter Lord

Gold Rush

• The golden age; a history of the colony of Victoria, 1851-1861 by Geoffrey Serle

Great Depression

• A fortunate life by A. B. Facey
• Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
• The great crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance by Ron Chernow
• Lloyd George by Peter Rowland
• The morbid age : Britain and the crisis of civilization by R. J. Overy
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn
• Theodore; his life and times by Irwin Edward Young
• The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner

The Great Depression

• John Curtin : a life by David Day

The Great Exhibition

• Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace : impact and images of the Industrial Revolution by Asa Briggs (1851)

Great Famine

• Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dik©œtter (1959-1961)
• Tombstone : the untold story of Mao's great famine by Jisheng Yang (1959-1961)

Great Fire of London

• The London encyclopaedia by Ben Weinreb

Great Leap Forward

• Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dik©œtter
• Tombstone : the untold story of Mao's great famine by Jisheng Yang

Great Slump

• The morbid age : Britain and the crisis of civilization by R. J. Overy

Greco-Persian Wars

• The Greco-Persian wars by Peter Green (449 BCE)
• The histories by Herodotus. (449 BCE)
• Persia and the Greeks : the defence of the West, c.546-478 B.C by A. R Burn (449 BCE)

Greek Civil War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1949)
• Captain Corelli's mandolin by Louis De Bernières (1946 - 1949)

Grenfell Tower fire

• Fall out : a year of political mayhem by Tim Shipman (2017)

Haymarket Massacre

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1886-05-04)

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

• Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Holocaust

• Bad faith : a story of family and fatherland by Carmen Callil
• Hitler, 1936-1945 : nemesis by Ian Kershaw
• I will bear witness by Victor Klemperer
• Hitler's Pope : the secret history of Pius XII by John Cornwell (1945)
• The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• Trial by fire by Jonathan Sumption
• King Henry V by William Shakespeare (1453)
• The perfect king : the life of Edward III father of the English nation by Ian Mortimer (1453)

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• Iron Curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum

Hyde Park Riots

• The lion and the unicorn : Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous (1866)

Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn

Indian independence

• Mountbatten : the official biography by Philip Ziegler
• Fifty years on : a prejudiced history of Britain since the war by Roy Hattersley (1947)

Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1975)

Indonesian War of Independence

• Sukarno : a political biography by J. D. Legge

Industrial Revolution

• The age of revolution : Europe, 1789-1848 by E. J. Hobsbawm
• Europe : a history by Norman Davies
• Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace : impact and images of the Industrial Revolution by Asa Briggs
• The making of the English working class by E. P. Thompson
• The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner

Interbellum

• Lloyd George by Peter Rowland
• Prophet of truth : Winston S. Churchill 1922-1939 by Martin Gilbert
• Borrowed time : the story of Britain between the wars by Roy Hattersley (1939)
• The memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring by Albert Kesselring (1939)
• The morbid age : Britain and the crisis of civilization by R. J. Overy (1939)
• The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations by Edward H. Carr (1939)
• We danced all night : a social history of Britain between the wars by Martin Pugh (1939)

Invasion of Egypt

• Fifty years on : a prejudiced history of Britain since the war by Roy Hattersley (1956)

Invasion of Grenada

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1983)

Invasion of Normandy of 1346

• Trial by fire by Jonathan Sumption

Iran Hostage Crisis

• White House diary by Jimmy Carter (1981)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Iraq War

• Known and unknown : a memoir by Donald Rumsfeld

Irish War of Independence

• The Conservatives : a history by Robin Harris

Iron Age

• Italy before the Romans : the Iron Age, Orientalizing, and Etruscan periods by David Ridgway

Italian Risorgimento

• Garibaldi's defence of the Roman republic, 1848-9, by George Macaulay Trevelyan

John Adams Presidency

• John Adams by David G. McCullough

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1859)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1854)

Korean War

• Fifty years on : a prejudiced history of Britain since the war by Roy Hattersley (1950)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1953)

Lambert Simnel Rebellion

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Lebanese Civil War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1990)

Liberal Party of Canada Leadership Race, April, 2013

• Common Ground ( Cover may vary ) by Justin Trudeau

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1861)

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1858)

London Bridge attack

• Fall out : a year of political mayhem by Tim Shipman (2017)

Long March

• Mao : the unknown story by Jung Chang

Long Parliament

• The world turned upside down; radical ideas during the English revolution by Christopher Hill

Manchester Arena bombing

• Fall out : a year of political mayhem by Tim Shipman (2017)

Manhattan Project

• Oliphant, the life and times of Sir Mark Oliphant by Stewart Cockburn

Mayaguez incident

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1975)

Mesopotamian Campaign

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (1918-11-14)

Mexican-American War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1848)

Million Man March

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1995)

Mississippi Bubble

• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Charles Mackay

Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe

• The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410 by Peter Jackson

Munich Agreement

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
• Europe: grandeur and decline by A. J. P. Taylor (1938-09-30)

My Lai Massacre

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1968)

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski (1815)
• The age of revolution : Europe, 1789-1848 by E. J. Hobsbawm (1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1831)

Nazi seizure of power

• Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

New Deal

• The Penguin history of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan

New Guinea Campaign

• Those ragged bloody heroes : from the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942 by Peter Brune (1945-08)

Norman Conquest of England

• The Anglo-Saxon chronicle by George Norman Garmonsway
• Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman conquest by H. R. Loyn
• The Saxon & Norman kings by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1066)
• The struggle for mastery : Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter (1066)

Oklahoma City Bombing

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1995)

Operation Barbarossa

• Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (1941-12-05)

Operation Dynamo

• The miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord

Operation Gothic Serpent

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1993)

Orde Baru

• A nation in waiting : Indonesia's search for stability by Adam Schwarz

Origins of World War I

• July crisis : the world's descent into war, summer 1914 by Thomas G. Otte
• The sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914 by Christopher M. Clark
• The war that ended peace : how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
• Winston S. Churchill. Vol.2, Young statesman,1901-1914 by Randolph S. Churchill

Origins of World War II

• The origins of the Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor

Pakistan Independence

• Mountbatten : the official biography by Philip Ziegler

Paris Peace Conference

• David Lloyd George : the great outsider by Roy Hattersley
• Diplomacy (Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger
• Lloyd George: a diary by Frances Lloyd George
• Peacemaking, 1919 by Harold Nicolson
• Tempestuous Journey by Frank Owen

Parliament Act 1911

• Asquith by Roy Jenkins

Partition of India

• The last Nizam : an Indian prince in the Australian outback by John Zubrzycki

Peace of Augsburg

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1555)

Peace of Westphalia

• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1648)

Peloponnesian War

• The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

Peninsula Campaign

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1862)

People's Budget

• Asquith by Roy Jenkins
• David Lloyd George : the great outsider by Roy Hattersley
• The origins of the liberal welfare reforms 1906-1914 by J. R. Hay
• Winston S. Churchill. Vol.2, Young statesman,1901-1914 by Randolph S. Churchill

Perestroika

• Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Perkin Warbeck Rebellion

• Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Persian Gulf War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1991)

Peterloo Massacre

• The making of the English working class by E. P. Thompson

Philippine-American War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1902)

Post World War II

• Iron Curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

Protestant Reformation

• John Calvin by Basil Hall

Qing Dynasty

• God's Chinese son : the Taiping heavenly kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese history, 1644-1911)
• The search for modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese history, 1644-1911)

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

• Victoria by Elizabeth Longford (1897)

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

• Victoria by Elizabeth Longford (1887)

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Reformation

• Europe : a history by Norman Davies
• The king's reformation : Henry VIII and the remaking of the English church by G. W. Bernard
• Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 by G. R. Elton

Reign of Amasis II

• The histories by Herodotus.

Reign of Augustus Caesar

• Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy (14-08-19)

Reign of Cambyses II

• The histories by Herodotus.

Reign of Edward I, King of England

• The struggle for mastery : Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter (1307-07-07)

Reign of Edward II, King of England

• The fourteenth century, 1307-1399 by May McKisack (1327-01-25)

Reign of Edward III, King of England

• The fourteenth century, 1307-1399 by May McKisack (1377-06-21)
• The perfect king : the life of Edward III father of the English nation by Ian Mortimer (1377-06-21)

Reign of Henry III, King of England

• The struggle for mastery : Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter (1272-11-16)

Reign of Henry VIII

• The earlier Tudors : 1485-1558 by J. D. Mackie (1547-01-28)
• The king's reformation : Henry VIII and the remaking of the English church by G. W. Bernard (1547-01-28)

Reign of Nero

• From the Gracchi to Nero : a history of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68 by H. H. Scullard (68-06-09)

Reign of Richard II, King of England

• The fourteenth century, 1307-1399 by May McKisack (1399-09-30)

Reign of Terror

• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

Republican China

• The search for modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (1912-1949)

Republican National Convention

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1860)

Resignation of Richard M. Nixon

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn

Revolutions of 1848

• Europe: grandeur and decline by A. J. P. Taylor

Rif War 1921-1926

• Franco : a biography by Paul Preston

Rise of Nazi Germany

• Berlin diary : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer

Rise of Nazi power

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
• Weimar and the rise of Hitler by Anthony Nicholls

Rise of the Third Reich

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer