by David Halberstam (2007)
David Halberstam’s masterwork on the Korean War, portraying the brutal winter battles against Chinese forces, the hubris of General MacArthur, and the ordinary soldiers caught in the opening clash of the Cold War.
Stephen E. Ambrose
The legendary story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought at Bastogne, and captured Hitler’s Bavarian Eagle’s Nest.
David Halberstam
The classic analysis of how the brilliant technocrats and intellectuals of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations led America into the catastrophic quagmire of the Vietnam War.
Robin Lane Fox
Robin Lane Fox’s masterpiece reconstructs the world and mind of Alexander of Macedon, who by age thirty-two had conquered the known world from Greece to India, driven by the myth of Achilles.
Thucydides, Robert B. Strassler
Thucydides chronicles the devastating twenty-seven-year civil war between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta that ended the Golden Age of Greece, creating the foundation of political realism.