I’ve been getting into history recently and want to read some non fiction books about these periods, could someone please recommend me some, they are:
The Roman Empire (specifically the start of it and the fall of Constantinople)
The Crusades
World War One and two
The Soviet Union
The American Revolution
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Probably the best World War II book I have read is Europe Central by William T Vollman.
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran
Stalin by Domenico Losurdo
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
Guns of August
*The Twelve Caesars* by Suetonius
*On Architecture* by Vitruvius
*The Histories* by Polybius
*The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire* by Edward Gibbon
*SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* by Mary Beard
*Benjamin Franklin: An American Life* by Walter Isaacson
*Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire* by John Man (Crusades era)
*Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile* by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
*The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History* by Bret Witter and Robert M. Edsel
*Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis* by Robert M. Edsel