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Amazon:  Ancient World  The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology... by Adrienne Mayor

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Sailing from Byzantium, by Colin Wells, could have been a very dry history about the influences of the Byzantine Empire on Western Europe, the Slavic world and in particularly on Russia, and on Moslem civilization.  Instead, the author made it readable by inserting anecdotes about movers and shakers from a time about which we know too little.   Nancy
Amazon:  Discovery  1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

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Amazon:  Discovery  The Riddle of the Compass 

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Amazon:  Egypt  Genesis of the Pharaohs by Toby Wilkinson

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Amazon:  Japan in WWII - China  The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten... by Iris Chang

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Amazon:  Japan in WWII  Unjust Enrichment: How Japan's... by Linda Goetz Holmes

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Amazon:  Japan in WWII  Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War... by Tim Maga

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Amazon:  Money  The Rich and How They Got That Way: How... by Cynthia Crossen

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Amazon:  Nazis  Darkness over Denmark: The Danish... by Ellen Levine

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Amazon:  Nazis  Seduced By Hitler. The Choices of a... by Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes

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Amazon:  Nazis  The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh

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The genealogies at the beginning of 1066 are worth the price of admission. However, the book is subtitled The Hidden History In The Bayeux Tapestry, and that priceless treasure is the focal point.  Author Andrew Bridgeford analyses la Tapisserie de la Reine Matilde, aka the Bayeux Tapestry, in great detail.  It was not made by Queen Matilda, but it does throw considerable light on a time that changed history, the Norman Conquest of England.   Nancy

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    Religion
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   Rome
The Ruin of the Roman Empire, by James J. O'Donnell, is a readable in depth look at the transition of power from Rome to the east, from Constantine to Theoderic to Justinian to Pope Gregory the Great and beyond.  Justinian comes off as a disaster with a crown, but who knew the Balkans would be a hot spot or that a lasting peace with the Persians who ruled the Middle East would have changed the world as we know it?   Nancy
Amazon:  Rome  Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient... by Tony Perrottet

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Tivoli

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Amazon:  Russia - Czars  Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last... by Charlotte Zeepvat

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Russia - Soviets

I read most of Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent by candlelight during a power failure.  It was compelling enough to get a listing here, but perhaps not a fun read for anyone who isn't hard core.  Nancy
Amazon:  Russia - Soviets  Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a... by Sergei Khrushchev

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Amazon:  Russia - Soviets  Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire by Richard Threlkeld

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Amazon: Trade  Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

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Amazon:  US History  Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War... by Fred Anderson

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Amazon:  US History  Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the... by John Buchanan

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Amazon:  US History The Santa Fe Trail: Its History,... by Davis Dary

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Amazon:  US History  The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in... by Wyn Craig Wade

Diversity

Amazon:  US History - Railroad  Nothing Like It in the World: The Men... by Stephen E. Ambrose

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Amazon:  US History - Bataan  Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story... by Hampton Sides

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Amazon:  US History - Las Vegas  The Money and the Power: The Making of... by Sally Denton and Roger Morris

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Amazon:  US History - Vietnam  A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into... by Robert Mann

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Amazon:  Victorian Society  The Victorians by A. N. Wilson

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Amazon:  War  Deception in War: The Art of the Bluff,... by Jon Latimer

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Amazon:  War  War Letters: Extraordinary... by Andrew Carroll

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