Recommended Books

Recommended Books for 2014 

Anthony, David W., The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasion Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Princeton University Press, 2007, 553 pages, ISBN 978-0691058870

Blanning, Tim, The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that made Modern Europe, 1648-1815, Penguin, 2008, 736 pages, ISBN 978 0143113895.

Brady, James, The Coldest War: A memoir of Korea, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000, 256 pages, ISBN 978-0312265113.

Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Princeton University Press, 2008, 432 pages, ISBN 978 0691121354.

DeVoto, Bernard, 1846: The year of Decision, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000, 576 pages, ISBN 978-0312267940

Morris, James, Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, Mariner Books, 1980, 564 pages, ISBN 978-0156400060

Morris, Jan, Pax Brittanica: The Climax of an Empire, Mariner Books, 1980, 552 pages, ISBN 978-0156714662

Nagorski, Andrew, The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II, Simon and Schuster, 2008, 348 pages, ISBN 978-0743281119.

Perrett, Geoffrey, America in the Twenties: A History, Touchstone Books, 1983, 585 pages, ISBN 978-0671251086, currently out of print.

Pietrusza, David, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, Basic Books, 2008, 592 pages, ISBN 978-0786721023

Shapiro, James, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, Harper Perennial, 2005, 333 pages, ISBN 0060088745.

Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Basic Books, 2010, 544 pages, ISBN 978-0465002399