War

War

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World by Cyrus Schayegh (2017)

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History, by Matthew Restall (2018)

Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903-1945 by John Paul Newman (2015)

Book cover of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2016)

The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Leonardo Padura (2013)

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

The Works of Steven Hahn

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Must Read Books on the Vietnam War

Genghis Khan and the Making of The Modern World, by Jack Weatherford (2004)

Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant (2003)

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil’s Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney (2014)

Past and Present in Modern China

International History and the Global United States: More to Read

Read More About the First World War

Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984, by Gail E. S. Yoshitani (2012)

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg (2012)

Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991)

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, by James Mann (2010)

Book cover of War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León

War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and the Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León (2012)

A Ferro e Fuoco: La Guerra Civile Europea, 1914-1945 by Enzo Traverso (2008)

Co-Winner of April Essay Contest: They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic (2005)

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves (1929)

Honorable Mention of 2013 Essay Contest: Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg by Rod Gragg (2000)

Winner of Spring 2013 Essay Contest: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (1956)

Book cover of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Ostuka (2003) & The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Ostuka (2012)

Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte (1944)

The Second World War by Antony Beevor (2012)

The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)

The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson (2000)

Book cover of The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher (1982)

Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa by Allen Wells (2009)

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor (2009)

Book cover of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith

Before Red Tails: Black Servicemen in World War I

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: Beirut City Center Recovery: The Foch-Allenby and Etoile Conservation Area by Robert Saliba (2004)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Book cover of The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad (2007)

Great Books on La Violencia in Guatemala

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and the American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)

Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession by Haggai Ram (2009)

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. Dore (1994)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower (1999)

Book cover of Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

The Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper (2006)

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (2007)

Sarah’s Key (2011)

Great Books on Worlds War II

Book cover of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)

Book cover of The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori

The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori (2008)

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby (2008)

The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War by Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko (2008)

Book cover of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism edited by Malinda S. Smith

Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)

Book cover of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (2006)

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann (2004)

The Rebel’s Hour by Lieve Joris (2008)

Book cover of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor (2010)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2003)