Monday, January 2, 2006

History

1) London: the Biography by Peter Ackroyd


2) Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson


3) The Hour of Our Death Phillipe Aries


4) Berlin The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor


5) Mediterranean & Mediterranean World in Age Philip II by Fernand Braudel


6) The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer


7)FROZEN DESIRE : An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money by John Buchan


8) Hitler und Stalin. Parallele Leben. by Alan Bullock


9) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt


10) Daily Life In Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino


11) Les rois maudits by Maurice Druon


12) The Age of Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420 by Georges Duby


13) The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, Second Edition by Eamon Duffy


14) Rites of Spring : The Great War And The Birth Of The Modern Age by Modris Eksteins


15) The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon


16) Colossus by Niall Ferguson


17)Millennium by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto


18) Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians by Robin Lane Fox


19) The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama


20) Naked Heart by Peter Gay


21) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1-3: Volumes 1, 2, 3 by Edward Gibbon


22) Holocaust by Martin Gilbert


23) Cheese And The Worms by Carlo Ginzburg


24) God's First Love by Friedrich Heer


25) The Histories by Herodotus


26) Hiroshima by John Hersey


27) The Fatal Shore: the Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes


28) Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers by Humphrey Jennings


29) A History of Warfare by John Keegan


30) A History of Warfare by Bartolome De Las Casas


31)Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Modern Classics) by T. E. Lawrence


32) Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis


33) Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys


34) Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf


35) The Defeat of Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly


36) Story Of English by Robert Mccrum


37) The Ornament of the World : How Muslims,Jews and Christians Created a Culture by Maria Rosa Menocal


38) Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles


39) Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire by Jan Morris


40)Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade by Henri Pirenne


41) Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 by Plutarch


42) Flesh In The Age Of Reason by Roy Porter


43) Citizens: a Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama


44) Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin


45) The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler


46) The Trial of Socrates by Isodor Stone


47) Penguin Classics Annals Of Imperial Rome by Tacitus


48) Origins Of The Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor


49) Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara M. Tuchman
50) A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

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