 | Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War v. 1 by Robert K. Massie
Buy used from: £3.61 A good book to read on how and why WW1 started - fantastic.
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 | The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, 1950-1953 by Michael Hickey
Buy used from: £18.97 A great book on the Korean war, and not on chocolate monkeys as one might expect from the title.
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 | Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History by B. G. Burkett
Buy new: £17.33 / Used from: £14.73 A book that exposes fake 'Nam vets
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 | Unheralded Victory: Who Won the Vietnam War? by Mark W. Woodruff
Buy used from: £2.76 Interesting but flawed. It's kinda hard to argue that the Americans won 'Nam, but his points about the tactical victories are good.
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 | Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £7.24 The best book on Israel methinks
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 | Dark Valley, The: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
Buy used from: £2.90 Great book on the 30s
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 | Crisis of the House Divided: Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by HV Jaffa
Buy used from: £11.47 Interesting book on the issues surrounding the American Civil War
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 | A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa
Buy used from: £25.94 The Jaffster does it again
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 | Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-75 by Phillip B. Davidson
Buy used from: £8.25 A comprehensive military history of Vietnam, which has bizarrely disappeared from Amazon's catalogue.
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 | Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £9.62 More on the ACW- opinionated essays.
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 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Penguin history) by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £4.74 A narrative history of the ACW
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 | Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War (Making of the Twentieth Century) by R.A.C. Parker
Buy new: £17.83 / Used from: £13.54 A great book on the start of WW2 that deserves to be widely read.
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 | Churchill and Appeasement by R.A.C. Parker
Buy used from: £6.09 Very interesting book on how Churchill might have averted WW2, although I'm not convinced alliance with Russia was a good idea.
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 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £10.67 Great book on the Russian Revolution.
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 | Fabricating Israeli History: The New Historians (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by Efraim Karsh
Buy new: £26.54 / Used from: £20.99 Book on how Israeli history has been distorted by dishonest historians.
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 | The War That Never Was: Fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-91 by David Pryce-Jones
Buy used from: £0.31 Fascinating book on why the Soviet Union collapsed from the inside.
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 | Victory: the Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Peter Schweizer
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £19.84 Fascinating book on why the Soviet Union collapsed from a somewhat different perspective.
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 | Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest
Buy used from: £5.49 Interesting book on how Stalin was a total scumbag, goes well with 'Harvest of Sorrow' and 'The Great Terror'
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 | The Second World War by Martin Gilbert
Buy used from: £16.97 Great book on WW2.
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 | One Hell of a Gamble: Krushchev, Castro, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-62 by Aleksandr Fursenko
Buy used from: £1.72 The Cuban Missile Crisis was not quite all it was cracked up to be.
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