I believe that historical non-fiction books are unfairly characterized as being boring or uninteresting. For example, I read *Autopsy for An Empire: the Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Leader* by Soviet and Russian historian Dmitri Volkogonov. The book was legitimately hard to put down with the detail of the inner fighting and idiocy in the Leninist Era, the purges and brutality of the Stalinist Era, the token reforms of the Khrushchev Era, and the gerontocracy and sheer incompetence of the leaders afterward, only to end with the well-meaning Gorbachev Era. So now, I would like to know if any of you have similar experiences with great historical non-fiction.
by ImOutOfNamesHelp