 | The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville v. 1 by Shelby Foote
Buy used from: £18.50 The first of the trilogy, simply brilliant writing and comprehensive history
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 | The Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian Vol 2 by Shelby Foote
Buy used from: £9.97 Not a 'troubled' middle book in a trilogy by any mean. Arguably the best of all 3
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 | The Civil War: Red River to Appomattox v. 3 by Shelby Foote
Buy used from: £20.00 And the conculsion - in total over 3,000 pages of beautiful writing. These 3 books are the best I have ever read.
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 | Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K Massie
Buy new: £59.30 / Used from: £28.91 I've seen this painting 'for real' in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £11.88 / Used from: £8.77 Very long, very thorough and wonderfully insightful (actually only runs to 1921)
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 | Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Buy used from: £34.74 I read this while travelling in Germany. A history of German through Berlin eyes
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 | The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad by David H. Bain
Buy new: £7.90 / Used from: £2.88 Brilliant. Proof that real life and history beats fiction every time. Read my review :) (from years ago)
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 | The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester
Buy new: £9.76 / Used from: £8.00 An unexpected delight. But sidesteps a few issues in Krupp during WW2
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 | Slim: The Standardbearer (Wordsworth Military Library) by Ronald Lewin
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £1.99 I cried after I finished this. Saw his tomb under St. Pauls, London. Very moving.
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 | Stonewall - A Biography of General Thomas J Jackson by B Farwell
Buy new: £6.90 / Used from: £5.65 This man is one of my heroes. And this is a very good biography
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 | Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by F.J. McLynn
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £2.86 Great wee book. What life in the Wild West was really about, for the first migrants
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 | Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders - from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century by James Belich
Buy used from: £46.09 Excellent stuff. Some interesting arguments, and nice touches of humour.
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 | The Battle of the Bulge (Wordsworth Military Library) by John Toland
Buy used from: £1.88 My favourite 'action by action' WW2 book. A classic read. You really re-live the engagements. Wonderfully written
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 | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £2.18 Huge amount of detail, and chilling in its revelations.
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 | Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience by Gabriel Kolko
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £0.33 A tough read in places. But satisfying - throwing considerable light on the nature of US involvement & defeat in Vietnam
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