The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948 ★ 3.8

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

1776 ★ 4.1

Way to wealth

Benjamin Franklin

1778

Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

1791 ★ 4.5

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

1991 ★ 4.5

The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchman

1962 ★ 3.1

The Origins of the Second World War

Taylor, A. J. P.

1961

The War That Ended Peace

Margaret Olwen Macmillan

2013

The Wages of Destruction

J. Adam Tooze

2006

Hitler's willing executioners

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

1996

What they fought for, 1861-1865

James M. McPherson

1994

The Pity of War

Niall Ferguson

1998

Hitler's willing executioners

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

1996

Europe's Last Summer

David Fromkin

2004

The Sleepwalkers

Christopher Clark

2013 ★ 4.2

The history of the Peleponnesian war

Pat Bottino, Thucydides

1790

The forgotten cause of the Civil War

Lawrence Raymond Tenzer

1997

How They Croaked

Georgia Bragg

2011 ★ 3.3

War & genocide

Doris L. Bergen

2003

Machine of Death

Ryan North

2013 ★ 3.7

The Origins of the First World War

Gordon Martel, James Joll

1984

Pirates & emperors

Noam Chomsky

2002

North and South

John Jakes

1982

Modernity and the Holocaust

Zygmunt Bauman

1989

Half slave and half free

Bruce C. Levine

1991

The proud tower

Barbara Tuchman

1959

The ideological origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn

1967

The gathering storm

Winston S. Churchill

1948

Reflections on the revolution in France

Edmund Burke

1955

L'ancien régime et la Révolution

Alexis de Tocqueville

1856