The best books on the Space Race include The Right Stuff, Hidden Figures, Rocket Men, Red Moon Rising, The Heavens and the Earth and Failure Is Not an Option.

The best books on D-Day include The Longest Day, D-Day by Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day by Antony Beevor, Overlord, Band of Brothers and Double Cross.

The best books on Pearl Harbor include At Dawn We Slept, Day of Infamy, December 7, 1941, Countdown to Pearl Harbor, Pacific Crucible and From Here to Eternity.

The best books on Japanese American internment include Farewell to Manzanar, They Called Us Enemy, When the Emperor Was Divine, Infamy, Citizen 13660 and Facing the Mountain.

The best books on the Bangladesh Liberation War include The Blood Telegram, 1971 by Srinath Raghavan, A Golden Age, The Unfinished Memoirs, Of Blood and Fire and A History of Bangladesh.

The best books on the Partition of India include The Great Partition, Midnight’s Furies, Freedom at Midnight, The Other Side of Silence, Train to Pakistan and Remnants of a Separation.

The best books on the Romanovs include The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Race to Save the Romanovs, Four Sisters, Catherine the Great and Rasputin.

The best books on the Russian Revolution include A People’s Tragedy, The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Ten Days That Shook the World, Russia in Revolution, October and Doctor Zhivago.

The best books on the Spanish Inquisition include The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen, God’s Jury, Inquisition by Edward Peters, The Ornament of the World, 1492 and The Heretic.

The best books on the Renaissance include The Swerve, Brunelleschi’s Dome, Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, The Medici by Paul Strathern, Lives of the Artists and The Prince.