by Timothy Snyder (2010)
Timothy Snyder’s monumental investigation of the territory between central Poland and western Russia where Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million civilians in twelve murderous years.
William L. Shirer
William L. Shirer’s definitive, National Book Award-winning masterpiece on Nazi Germany, chronicling Hitler’s rise from Munich beer halls to the devastation of Europe and ultimate collapse of the Third Reich.
John W. Dower
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, John W. Dower examines Japan during the American occupation from 1945 to 1952, exploring how a shattered, defeated empire reinvented itself into a peace-state and economic titan.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s legendary exposé of the vast Soviet network of forced labor camps and secret police terror that shook the world and helped dismantle Soviet legitimacy.
Ramachandra Guha
The masterly second volume of Guha landmark biography follows Gandhi from his return to India in 1915 to his assassination in 1948, chronicling the Salt March, Quit India, partition, and the moral struggles of the Indian independence movement.