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« on: February 08, 2016, 03:26:51 PM »

I, and I imagine most forumites, are always on the hunt for good, high quality history books which are likely to surprise. What are y'all's favorites?

I'll start--Ordinary Men seems to me to be the best nonfiction book I've read on the Holocaust, and (as far as I can tell. I'm not an academic) it seems to have a lot of explanatory power regarding the actions of the perpetrators.
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2016, 06:13:22 PM »

I finished The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein late last night. It was amazing. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is pretty good too. There are others, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2016, 06:29:25 PM »

Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy is my favorite ACW book.
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2016, 10:55:22 PM »

The old door-stopper, Rise and Fall of The Third Reich.
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