The book list below contains much more than just what I’ve read for this month of this year. Rather, it is a loose collection of books I’ve either used for research on this site or books I’ve found interesting enough to write about. There are many more which cannot be included due to time and length which we may get to the in the future, but for now, there are a select number below. I’ll add that all are affiliate links which aid the growth of this site at no cost to you.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam by Vladislav Tamarov
Britain
The King’s Peace, 1637-1641 by C.V. Wedgewood
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by Giles Milton
Germany
Bread and Democracy in Germany by Alexander Gerschenkron
Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa by Michelle R. Moyd
Honduras
Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule: An Account of A Journey Made On Mule Back in Honduras, CA in August 1891 by Almira Stillwell Cole
Mexico
Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution by Jurgen Buchenau
Baja California Railways by John A. Kirchner
Tramping through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras by Harry A. Franck
Russia/USSR
Socialist Fun: Youth Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 by Gleb Tsipursky
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West by Luke Harding
Trapped in Russia: An American Family’s Struggle to Survive by Karen Wardamasky Bobrow
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism by Tatiana Linkhoeva
Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia edited by Susanne Bauer and Tanja Penter
United States
Barbara Bush: A Memoir by Barbara Bush
Christmas in Plains: Memories by Jimmy Carter
Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership by Noah Andre Trudeau
George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas
The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood
William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen
Washington’s Revolution: The Making of America’s First Leader by Robert Middlekauff
Vietnam
Mounted Combat in Vietnam by Donn A. Starry
Elections in South Vietnam by Howard R. Penniman
Vietnam: Dawn of a New Market: A Business Survival Guide by Geoffrey Murray
Vietnam: The Incomplete Transformation by Peter Wolff
The Vietnamese Gulag by Doan Van Toai & David Chanoff
Ideas/People/Regions
Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System by Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story by Ken Langone
For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball by Bud Selig with Phil Rogers
Our Lost Declaration: America’s Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State by Senator Mike Lee
Just Show Up: And Other Enduring Values from Baseball’s Iron Man by Cal Ripken Jr.
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937 – May 1942 by Richard B. Frank
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
Just About History 