The best books on World War II include The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Second World War by Antony Beevor, Band of Brothers, Unbroken, The Splendid and the Vile and All the Light We Cannot See.
The best books on World War I include The Guns of August, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Sleepwalkers, A World Undone, Testament of Youth and Dead Wake.
The best books on the Korean War include The Coldest Winter, This Kind of War, The Korean War: A History, The Forgotten War, The Last Stand of Fox Company and On Desperate Ground.
The best books on the Vietnam War include A Bright Shining Lie, Vietnam: A History, Dispatches, The Things They Carried, We Were Soldiers Once… and Young and The Sympathizer.
The best books on the Cold War include The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis, Iron Curtain, One Minute to Midnight, The Spy and the Traitor, The Dead Hand and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
The best books on the French Revolution include Citizens, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, A Tale of Two Cities, Marie Antoinette, Twelve Who Ruled and A Place of Greater Safety.
The best books on the Tudors include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Tudors by G.J. Meyer, Wolf Hall, The Winter King, Thomas Cromwell and The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England.
The best books on the Underground Railroad include Bound for Canaan, Gateway to Freedom, Bound for the Promised Land, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, William Still’s records and Never Caught.
The best books on the Harlem Renaissance include When Harlem Was in Vogue, The New Negro, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Passing, Cane and The Big Sea.
The best books on the Civil Rights Movement include Parting the Waters, Eyes on the Prize, Warriors Don’t Cry, March, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Coming of Age in Mississippi.