by Barbara W. Tuchman (1962)
Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic reconstructing the fateful first thirty days of World War I in the summer of 1914, when imperial hubris and rigid military timetables plunged civilization into catastrophe.
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.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman vividly reconstructs the disastrous fourteenth century through the life of French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy VII, amidst the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and the collapse of feudal society.
Timothy Snyder
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.