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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
4.19 average rating, · 71.9k ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
4.06 average rating, · 86.6k ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
4.16 average rating, · 51.2k ratings
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides
4.46 average rating, · 24.6k ratings
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A Little History of the World
E.H. Gombrich
4.10 average rating, · 33.1k ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
David McCullough
4.22 average rating, · 23.7k ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen
4.19 average rating, · 19.7k ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann
4.12 average rating, · 21.4k ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
4.38 average rating, · 14.1k ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
4.40 average rating, · 13.4k ratings
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The Lessons of History
Will Durant
4.05 average rating, · 21.4k ratings
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Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum
4.29 average rating, · 14.2k ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark
4.24 average rating, · 14.7k ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer
4.30 average rating, · 12.9k ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
4.13 average rating, · 15.4k ratings
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World Order
Henry Kissinger
4.04 average rating, · 14.4k ratings
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A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
Michael G. Kramer
4.28 average rating, · 10.9k ratings
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
Peter Hopkirk
4.33 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Daniel J. Boorstin
4.11 average rating, · 11.9k ratings
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
4.22 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
4.25 average rating, · 9.6k ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor
4.19 average rating, · 9.6k ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
Robert Hughes
4.09 average rating, · 10.6k ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.12 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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