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Books Read (History)

A selection of nonfiction I've read, covering historical events and biographies.  This list is roughly organized by theme.


Author Biographies & Memoirs

Bridge, Horatio

Conrad, Joseph

Doyle, Arthur Conan

London, Jack


The Cold War

Havel, Václav
  • The Power of the Powerless

Kennedy, Robert F.

Mackinder, Halford

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
  • "Live Not by Lies"


Current Events & Figures

Brown, Kerry


Holocaust Memoirs
 
Blatt, Thomas Toivi
    • From the Ashes of Sobibor

    ten Boom, Corrie
    • The Hiding Place

    Wiesel, Elie

    Maritime History

    Chase, Owen
     
    Cousteau, Jacques
    • The Silent World

     
    North Korea

    Bae, Kenneth
    • Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea


    Albanov, Valerian
    • In the Land of White Death

    Shackleton, Sir Ernest
    • South
    • In the Heart of the Antarctic 


    T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

    Korda, Michael
    • Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence, T. E.

    Mack, John E.



    U.S. History


    Ellis, Joseph J.



    Women in History 

    Fraser, Navarro
    • Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

    Joan of Arc
    • Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words

    Woolf, Virginia

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