Biographies
Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
De Gaulle by Julian T. Jackson
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Joan of Arc: A History by Helen Castor
Europe
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
Africa
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
The Boer War by Martin Bossenbroek
The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears by Adrian Greaves, Xolani Mkhize
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason K. Stearns
Asia
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy by Frank McLynn
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
The Americas
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years by Peter G. Tsouras
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard
