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Reserve 303.3809
Popular opinion and political dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933 - 1945 / Kershaw, Ian.

304.663 AN615
Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocide / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton ; with a foreword by Kenneth Roth

304.663 H816
Taking lives: genocide and State power / Irving Louis Horowitz

304.663 K92
Mass hate : the global rise of genocide and terror / Neil J. Kressel

304.663 L716
Terrible fate : ethnic cleansing in the making of modern Europe / Benjamin Lieberman

304.663 M282
The dark side of democracy : explaining ethnic cleansing / Michael Mann

304.663 P887
"A problem from hell" : America and the age of genocide / Samantha Power

306.0943 B557
Germany after the First World War / Richard Bessel

320.96 T677
Government and politics in Africa / William Tordoff
Tordoff, William.

320.96 N576
Conversing with Africa : the politics of change / Mukoma wa Ngugi
M*ukoma wa Ng*ug*i.

320.9728 L25
The guerrilla wars of Central America : Nicaragua, El Salvador,and Guatemala / Saul Landau

320.9598 SCH411
A nation in waiting : Indonesia in the 1990s / Adam Schwarz

320.9597 F553
Fire in the lake; the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam / FitzGerald, Frances, 1940-

320.955 AB135
Answering only to God : faith and freedom in twenty-first-century Iran / Geneive Abdo and Jonathan Lyons

320.954 IN39
Indira Gandhi's India : a political system reappraised / edited by Henry C. Hart

320.947 G153
The age of anxiety : security and politics in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Mark Galeotti

320.94382 K49
The free city; Danzig and German foreign policy, 1919-1934 / by Christoph M. Kimmich

320.9437 L493
The Czech and Slovak republics : nation versus state / Carol Skalnik Leff
Leff, Carol Skalnik.

320.904 G554
Totalitarianism : the inner history of the Cold War / Abbott Gleason

327.44 K27
France and the world since 1870 / J.F.V. Keiger

327.41073 C482
Churchill's grand alliance : the Anglo-American special relationship, 1940-57 / John Charmley

327.54 C55
Pakistan's relations with India, 1947-1966 / Ubyu G. W.Choudhury

327.5 Z63
Power competition in East Asia : from the old Chinese world order to post-cold war regional multipolarity / Suisheng Zhao

327.5 M478
Asia Pacific in world politics / Derek McDougall

327.48 N83
The Nordic Region : changing perspectives in international relations

327.47 K96
Burying Lenin : the revolution in Soviet ideology and foreign policy / Steven Kull

327.44043 SI59
The privileged partnership : Franco-German relations in the European Community, 1969-1984 / Haig Simonian

327.55017671 IR65
The Iranian revolution : its global impact / edited by John L. Esposito

355.032567 T58
The death lobby : how the West armed Iraq / Kenneth R.Timmerman

355.020904 M58
The century of warfare : worldwide conflict from 1900 to the present day
Messenger, Charles, 1941-

355.0218 SCH562
Insurgents, terrorists, and militias : the warriors of contemporary combat / Richard H. Shultz, Jr. and Andrea J. Dew

363.1799 AL384
Voices from Chernobyl / Svetlana Alexievich ; translation and preface by Keth Gessen

909.097 P844
The lion's share : a short history of British imperialism, 1850-1983 / Bernard Porter.

909.82 EK36
Rites of spring : the Great War and the birth of the Modern Age / Modris Eksteins.(A weird, wandering, but wonderful analysis of the link between World War I and the creation of modernity. Eksteins connects elite artistic movements and popular culture with the horror of the trenches—a great book that remains unselected!)

940.0491497 F841
The gypsies / Angus Fraser.

940.3 G46
The First World War : a complete history / Martin Gilbert. (A good narrative study by a prolific historian.)

940.3 G786 V.2
The Great World War, 1914-45 / edited by Peter Liddle, John Bourne, Ian Whitehead.

940.3 K26
The First World War / John Keegan. (One of the best British historians, Keegan’s study is first-rate; student reviewers interested in military history should consider selecting this book.)

940.3 M167
Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world / Margaret MacMillan.

940.3 P173
Victory, 1918 / Alan Palmer.

940.3 ST847
Cataclysm : the First World War as political tragedy/ David Stevenson.

940.3 ST894
The First World War / Hew Strachan.

940.3 T894
The great war, 1914-18 / Spencer C. Tucker.

940.31 J34
The lions of July : prelude to war, 1914 / William Jannen, Jr.

940.311 F931
Europe's last summer : who started the Great War in 1914? / by David Fromkin.

940.311 M4
Dreadnought : Britain, Germany, and the coming of the great war / Robert K. Massie. (A solid narrative history that’s much better than Massie’s work on Russia’s Romanov dynasty.)

940.33493 Z94
The rape of Belgium : the untold story of World War I / Larry Zuckerman. (Students who have selected Zuckerman’s book have found it interesting and easy to follow. A good study of Germany’s occupation of Belgium—although Zuckerman fibs when he claims the story is “untold.”)

940.439 W42
A stillness heard round the world : the end of the Great War,November 1918 / Stanley Weintraub.

940.4 N397
Fighting the Great War : a global history / Michael S. Neiberg

940.41247082 ST873
They fought for the Motherland : Russia's women soldiers in World War I and the Revolution / Laurie S. Stoff

940.458 M135
To the last man : spring 1918 / Lyn Macdonald.

Reserve 940.46
Fallen soldiers: Reshaping the memory of the world wars / Mosse, George L. (George Lachmann), 1918- (A hugely significant book that explains how France and Germany shaped the ways the “The Great War” was remembered.)

940.5218 R47
Masters of death : the SS-Einsatzgruppen and the invention of the Holocaust / Richard Rhodes. (An informative if unspectacular book that student reviewers have liked.)

940.53 D344
Auschwitz and after / Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Rosette C. Lamont

940.53 G46
The Second World War : a complete history / Martin Gilbert. (A solid, traditional Gilbertian analysis of World War II.)

940.53 G784
Women's identities at war : gender, motherhood, and politics in Britain and France during the First World War / Susan R. Grayzel. (An important comparative history of World War I—excellent book.)

940.53 H87
Hitler's war / Edwin P. Hoyt. (An analytically scanty but serviceable narrative history of World War II.)

940.53 K26
The Second World War / John Keegan. (Another excellent Keeganian contribution to twentieth century military history.)

940.53083 N598
Cruel world : the children of Europe in the Nazi era / Lynn H. Nicholas

940.5311 T238
The origins of the Second World War / A.J.P. Taylor (A controversial book that created a (and continues to create a) a stir when it was first published in the 1960s—students familiar with inter-war diplomatic history will find this book interesting, possibly irritating, but enjoyable.)

940.5311 W34
How war came : the immediate origins of the Second World War,1938-1939 / Donald Cameron Watt. (This is the A. J. P. Taylor antidote!)

940.5314 B786
Nazi gold : the full story of the fifty-year Swiss-Nazi conspiracy to steal billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust survivors / Tom Bower. (A fast-moving and engrossing account on the sickening financial dealings between the Nazis and Swiss banks. Future (and current) business majors may find this book especially engrossing.)

940.5315 F597
Hitler and the final solution / Gerald Fleming ; with an introduction by Saul Friedlander.

940.5315 G46
The Holocaust : a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War / Martin Gilbert. (A solid if analytically unspectacular survey of the Holocaust by an excellent historian.)

940.5318 B885
The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942 / Christopher Browning ; with contributions by Jurgen Matthaus. (Browning is one of the premier historians of the Holocaust—this is an excellent study of the early phases of the Holocaust’s implementation.)

940.5318 EI34C
Becoming Eichmann : rethinking the life, crimes, and trial of a "desk murderer" / David Cesarani

940.5318 G465
Kristallnacht : prelude to destruction / Martin Gilbert (Student reviewers love Gilbert’s narrative account of “Crystal Night.”)

940.5318 G618
Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

940.5318 G46
The boys : the untold story of 732 young concentration camp survivors / Martin Gilbert. (A gripping, emotional study.)

940.5318 L678
The Nazi persecution of the gypsies / Guenter Lewy.

940.5318 R328
Auschwitz : a new history / Laurence Rees.

940.5318 ST819
Auschwitz: a history / Sybille Steinbacher.

940.5318 W817
Hitler and the Holocaust / Robert S. Wistrich.

940.5318 Z94IT
The Italians and the Holocaust : persecutiuon, rescue, and survival / Susan Zuccotti ; introduction by Furio Colombo. (A solid study that makes some rather ill-advised comments that have perhaps led to this book’s being harshly criticzed.)

940.53180922 G465
The Righteous : the unsung heroes of the Holocaust / Martin Gilbert (An moving study.)

940.5344082 D537
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948 : choices and constraints / Hanna Diamond.

940.5344082 W436
Sisters in the Resistance : how women fought to free France, 1940-1945 / Margaret Collins Weitz. (A pioneering book when it was first published, Sisters in the Resistance sparked other Resistance studies that have arguably surpassed it; still, Weitz’s book is student-friendly and no one has negatively reviewed it.)

940.53477 B512
Harvest of despair : life and death in Ukraine under Nazi rule / Karel C. Berkhoff

940.5421 K26
Six armies in Normandy : from D-Day to the liberation of Paris / John Keegan. (Keegan’s study spills more ink examining non-American forces than does Ambrose’s study of D-Day. If you’re interested in a less American-centered account of D-Day, opt for Keegan’s study.)

940.5421 L95
The duel : 10 May-31 July 1940 : the eighty-day struggle between Churchill and Hitler / John Lukacs.  (A good narrative history.)

940.5421 ST779
Ten days to D-Day : citizens and soldiers on the eve of the invasion / David Stafford. (This is an interesting book that utilizes a great deal of oral history taken from regular “Joe’s” and “JoAnne’s” to tell its story. A narrative history that is student friendly.)

940.542142 AM49
D-Day, June 6, 1944 : the climactic battle of World War II / Stephen E. Ambrose (A good analysis but Ambrose pays short shrift to American and British forces who suffered heavy casualties during D-Day.)

940.54217 P726
Stalin's folly : the tragic first ten days of World War II on the Eastern front / Constantine Pleshakov

940.5421721 C886
Enemy at the gates; the battle for Stalingrad / by William Craig. (An engaging study that has recently been brought back into print.)

940.5423092 R766R
Rommel : the end of a legend / Ralf Georg Reuth ; translated by Debra S. Marmor and Herbert A. Danner.

940.5488 AR761
The illusion of victory : fascist propaganda and the second World War / W. Vincent Arnold.

940.5488743 B499
Hitler's airwaves : the inside story of Nazi radio broadcasting and propaganda swing / Horst J.P. Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz. (A dense and detailed examination of how the Nazi’s used mass propaganda.)

940.55 M476
Dark continent : Europe's twentieth century / Mark Mazower.

940.55 T772
Transnational moments of change : Europe 1945, 1968, 1989 / edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn and Padraic Kenney. (A difficult but interesting collection that argues the nation-state may hamper rather than increase understanding of important historical events—especially good for Eastern and Central Europe.).

941.084092 C563G
Churchill : a life / Martin Gilbert.  (A straightforward but arguably uncritical one-volume account of Churchill.)

941.084092 C563K
Winston Churchill / John Keegan. (Go with Gilbert’s study; Keegan’s biography is a bit short and impressionistic.)

941.6 C769I
The IRA : a history / Tim Pat Coogan. (Engagingly written account by one of Ireland’s most famous journalists—probably a better selection for those students with prior knowledge of modern Irish history.)

941.6 D621
Northern Ireland : the politics of war and peace / Paul Dixon.

941.6 EN58
Armed struggle : the history of the IRA / Richard English. (If you’re interested in a more comprehensive and thorough account of the IRA, go with this book.)

943.08 EV92
The coming of the Third Reich / Richard J. Evans. (Wonderful survey!)

943.086 B961
The Third Reich : a new history / Michael Burleigh. (A decent survey but consider checking out Burleigh’s other books.)

943.086 F418
Plotting Hitler's death : the story of the German resistance / Joachim Fest ; translated by Bruce Little. (Fest may overemphasize the extent of resistance to Hilter but this is a lucid and engaging analysis.)

943.086 G318
Backing Hitler : consent and coercion in Nazi Germany / Robert Gellately. (Gellately’s book is not comforting because it argues that Germans supported the Nazis far more enthusiastically than is popularly believed.)

943.086 J66
Nazi terror : the Gestapo, Jews, and ordinary Germans / Eric A. Johnson.

943.086 K19
Hitler youth / Michael H. Kater.

943.086072 N492
Shifting memories : the Nazi past in the new Germany / Klaus Neumann.

943.086092 H658B
The architect of genocide : Himmler and the final solution / Richard Breitman.

943.086092 H675B
Hitler and Stalin : parallel lives / Alan Bullock. (Bullock’s study is excellent!)

943.086092 H675K
Hitler, 1889-1936 : hubris / Ian Kershaw. (Arguably the best English-language biography of Hitler—this is the first volume.)

943.086092 H675KN
Hitler, 1936-45 : nemesis / Ian Kershaw. (Arguably the best English-language biography of Hitler—this is the second volume.)

943.087 SM667
From Yalta to Berlin : the Cold War struggle over Germany / W.R. Smyser.

943.0874 N157
The Russians in Germany : a history of the Soviet Zone of occupation, 1945-1949 / Norman M. Naimark.

943.0879 M563
German unification in the European context / Peter H. Merkl ;with a contribution by Gert-Joachim Glaessner.

943.155 D261
Home fires burning : food, politics, and everyday life in World War I Berlin / Belinda Davis.

943.60522 B932
Hitler's Austria : popular sentiment in the Nazi era, 1938-1945 / by Evan Burr Bukey.

943.705 IN58
Czechoslovakia : the short goodbye / Abby Innes. (An excellent revisionist account of the disintegration of Czechoslovakia.)

943.805 P122
The spring will be ours : Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom / Andrzej Paczkowski ; translated by Jane Cave.

943.84 G98
Resistance : the Warsaw Ghetto uprising / Israel Gutman.

943.9052 G261
Failed illusions : Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian revolt / Charles Gati

944.0815 D964
France and the Nazi threat : the collapse of French diplomacy 1932-1939 / Jean-Baptiste Duroselle

944.0816 J13
France : the dark years, 1940-1944 / Julian Jackson.

944.0816 J13F
The fall of France : the Nazi invasion of 1940 / Julian Jackson.

944.0816 V782
The unfree French : life under the occupation / Richard Vinen

944.20814 M172
The long silence : civilian life under the German occupation of northern France, 1914-1918 / Helen McPhail.

944.361 H638
Paris : capital of the world / Patrice Higonnet

945.091 B747
Mussolini's Italy : life under the dictatorship, 1915-1945 / R.J.B. Bosworth (An excellent study of life in Europe’s first “totalitarian” regime.)

945.091092 M989B
Mussolini / R.J.B. Bosworth. (An wonderfully written biography of Mussolini that challenges historians who have tried to see the good in Il Duce.)

945.091092 M989F
Mussolini : a new life / Nicholas Farrell (A good biography but Bosworth’s is a bit better.)

946.08 P346
Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 / Stanley G. Payne. (Superb analysis of Spanish fascism by an internationally renowned [now retire] UW-Madison historian.)

946.08 P346F
The Franco regime, 1936-1975 / Stanley G. Payne. (Tremendous book by an amazingly erudite historian.)

946.081 ES75
Spain at war : the Spanish Civil War in context, 1931-1939 / George Esenwein and Adrian Shubert.

947 K36
A carnival of revolution : Central Europe 1989 / Padraic Kenney. (A wonderful book that gives most of the credit for the collapse of the Communist Bloc in Europe not to Gorbachev, not to Ronald Reagan, but to regular Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, and Slovaks! A wonderful, nuanced, and uplifting analysis.)

947 K85
The Soviet colossus : the rise and fall of the USSR / MichaelKort.

947 SM648
The post-Soviet states : mapping the politics of transition / Graham Smith.

947 SU958
The Soviet experiment : Russia, the USSR, and the successor states / Ronald Grigor Suny.

947.07 R969
Russia--women--culture / edited by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren.

947.08 L741
In war's dark shadow : the Russians before the Great War / W.Bruce Lincoln.

947.08092 R227F
Rasputin : a life / Joseph T. Fuhrmann.

947.083 M417
The Romanovs : the final chapter / Robert K. Massie.

947.083 SA16
Black night, white snow ; Russia's revolutions, 1905-1917 / Harrison E. Salisbury.

947.083092 N597L
Nicholas II : twilight of the Empire / Dominic Lieven.

947.083092 R13
The last Tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II / Edvard Radzinsky

947.084 C3
Stalin, order through terror / Helene Carrere d'Encausse ;translated by Valence Ionescu.

947.084 P66R
The Russian Revolution / Richard Pipes. (A fine survey by a politically conservative historian. Great book!)

947.084 ST78
The Stalin revolution : foundations of the totalitarian era. / Robert Vincent Daniels.

947.084 ST78T
Stalin in power : the revolution from above, 1928-1941 / Robert C. Tucker. (Although Tucker uses a bit of psycho-history that is now a tad unfashionable, this is a thorough and intriguing biography of Stalin. Personally, I prefer Stalin as Revolutionary.)

947.08401092 L566S
Lenin : a biography / Robert Service.

947.084092 T858V
Trotsky : the eternal revolutionary / Dmitri Volkogonov ;translated and edited by Harold Shukman. (Despite its title, this is not a traditional chronologically organized biography of Trotsky. The translation has resulted in a book that has about one hundred fewer pages than the original Russian language study.)

947.0841 M46
The Russian Civil War / Evan Mawdsley. (A solid study of a chaotic era in Russian history.)

947.0841 P66
Russia under the Bolshevik regime / Richard Pipes.

947.0842 C487
Enemies within the gates? : the Comintern and the Stalinist repression, 1934-1939 / William J. Chase

947.0842 T536
Life and terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 / Robert W. Thurston. (A revisionist account of Stalin that contends “the Red Tsar” was not necessarily in control of all aspects of the Soviet Terror.)

947.0842092 C75
Stalin : breaker of nations / Robert Conquest. (Conquest has written lengthily and movingly of the tens of millions who died as a result of Stalin’s reign, and he does again in this book.)

947.0842092 K7
Beria, Stalin's first lieutenant / Amy Knight.

947.0842092 ST785
Stalin : a biography / Robert Service (Service had access to sources unavailable to other scholars, so this is a provocative and interesting biography.)

947.084092 T858V
Trotsky : the eternal revolutionary / Dmitri Volkogonov ;translated and edited by Harold Shukman.

947.0845 ST874
The walls came tumbling down : the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe / Gale Stokes. (Stokes’ account of 1989 is easy to follow and is presented country by country.)

947.085 C692
The decline and fall of the Soviet Empire : forty years that shook the world, from Stalin to Yeltsin / Fred Coleman

947.0854 R387
Lenin's tomb : the last days of the soviet empire / David Remnick.

947.0854 ST913
Why did the Soviet Union collapse? : understanding historical change / Robert Strayer

947.0854092 SH53
The man who changed the world : the lives of Mikhail S.Gorbachev / by Gail Sheehy

947.41 R24
Estonia and the Estonians / Toivo U. Raun.

947.54 G629
Azerbaijan diary : a rogue reporter's adventures in an oil-rich, war-torn, post-Soviet republic / Thomas Goltz

947.52 K68
The war in Chechnya / Stasys Knezys and Romanas Sedlickas

947.4 L722
The Baltic revolution : Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the path to independence / by Anatol Lieven

949.507 G163
Modern Greece  / Thomas Gallant.

949.6 B87
Nationalism, democracy, and security in the Balkans / J.F.Brown

949.6 G377
The Balkan wars : conquest, revolution, and retribution from the Ottoman era to the twentieth century and beyond / Andr*e Gerolymatos.

949.6 G558
The Balkans : nationalism, war, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 / Misha Glenny.

949.6 K17
Balkan ghosts : a journey through history / Robert D. Kaplan.

949.7 C67
Broken bonds : the disintegration of Yugoslavia / Lenard J.Cohen.

949.7 L237
Yugoslavia as history : twice there was a country / John R. Lampe. (Probably the best English language analysis of Yugoslavia’s creation and disintegration.)

949.702 AU94
Tito; a biography.

949.7024 C571
Genocide in Bosnia : the policy of "ethnic cleansing" / Norman Cigar
Cigar, Norman L.

949.7024 M7
Yugoslavian inferno : ethnoreligious warfare in the Balkans / Paul Mojzes

949.7024 T47
A paper house : the ending of Yugoslavia / Mark Thompson
Thompson, Mark, 1959-

949.7103 Y94
Yugoslavism : histories of a failed idea, 1918-1992 / Dejan Djoki*c, editor
Djoki*c, Dejan.

949.7103092 M661D
Milosevic : portrait of a tyrant / Dusko Doder and Louise Branson

949.742024 R553
Slaughterhouse : Bosnia and the failure of the West / David Rieff
Rieff, David.

949.803 F52
Twentieth century Rumania / Stephen Fisher-Gala¸ti
Fischer-Gala¸ti, Stephen A.

950 M329
War at the top of the world : the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet / Eric S. Margolis

951 F164G
The great Chinese revolution, 1800-1985 / John King Fairbank
Fairbank, John King, 1907-

951.03 W149
The fall of imperial China / Frederic Wakeman, Jr
Wakeman, Frederic E.

951.03 H87R2
The rise of modern China / Immanuel C.Y. Hsü

951.03 SP74
The search for modern China / by Jonathan D. Spence

951.03092 EV92
Deng Xiaoping and the making of modern China / Richard Evans

951.035 P937
The boxer rebellion : the dramatic story of China's war on foreigners that shook the world in the summer of 1900 / Diana Preston

951.035092 T999S
Dragon lady : the life and legend of the last empress of China / by Sterling Seagrave with the collaboration of Peggy Seagrave

951.057 B974
Bad elements : Chinese rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing / Ian Buruma

951.05092 M296C
Mao : the unknown story / Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

951.05092 SA16
The new emperors : China in the era of Mao and Deng / Harrison E. Salisbury

951.04 B57
Origins of the Chinese revolution, 1915-1949. / Translated from the French by Muriel Bell
Bianco, Lucien.

951.042092 C532F
Chiang Kai-shek: China's generalissimo and the nation he lost / Jonathan Fenby

951.042 C95
The man who lost China : the first full biography of ChiangKai-shek / by Brian Crozier, with the collaboration of Eric Chou

951.04 SN674
Red star over China

951.05 T994
Chinese awakenings : life stories from the unofficial China / James & Ann Tyson

951.05 T32
China in our time : the epic saga of the People's Republic from the Communist victory to Tiananmen Square and beyond / Ross Terrill

951.058 B87
Quelling the people : the military suppression of the Beijing democracy movement / Timothy Brook

951.058 C5
Behind the Tiananmen Massacre : social, political, and economic ferment in China / Chu-yuan Cheng

951.058 M643
The legacy of Tiananmen : China in disarray / James A.R. Miles

951.058 SCH32
Mandate of heaven : the legacy of Tiananmen Square and the next generation of China's leaders / Orville Schell

951.06 C539
China / edited by Dimitri Cavalli

951.5042092 P116
Sorrow mountain; the journey of a Tibetan warrior nun / Ani Pachen & Adelaide Donnelley

951.73 B35
The modern history of Mongolia / Ubyu C. R. Bawden

951.9 C969
Korea's place in the sun : a modern history / Bruce Cumings

951.9 ST87
The hidden history of the Korean War / I. F. Stone

951.9042 T64
In mortal combat : Korea, 1950-1953 / John Toland

951.93043 C969
North Korea : another country / Bruce Cumings

951.904 M653
The war for Korea, 1945-1950 : a house burning / Allan R. Millett

952 D732
Kyoto : a cultural history / John Dougill

952.025 J35
The making of modern Japan / Marius B. Jansen

952.03 H94
The emergence of modern Japan : an introductory history since1853 / Janet Hunter

952.031 W16
The short victorious war; the Russo-Japanese conflict, 1904-5 / Walder, David

952.033092 C95
The death of an emperor : Japan at the crossroads / Thomas Crump

952.033092 H86
Warlord : Tojo against the world / Edwin P. Hoyt

952.04 D746
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II / John W. Dower

952.044 EI34
Inside GHQ : the Allied occupation of Japan and its legacy / Takemae Eiji ; translated and adapted from the Japanese by Robert Ricketts and Sebastian Swann

951.9 ST87
The hidden history of the Korean War / I. F. Stone

951.9042 T64
In mortal combat : Korea, 1950-1953 / John Toland

951.93043 C969
North Korea : another country / Bruce Cumings

952 D732
Kyoto : a cultural history / John Dougill

952.025 J35
The making of modern Japan / Marius B. Jansen

952.03 H94
The emergence of modern Japan : an introductory history since 1853 / Janet Hunter

952.031 W16
The short victorious war; the Russo-Japanese conflict, 1904-5

952.033092 C95
The death of an emperor : Japan at the crossroads / Thomas Crump

952.033092 H86
Warlord : Tojo against the world / Edwin P. Hoyt

952.04 D746
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II / John W. Dower

952.044 EI34
Inside GHQ : the Allied occupation of Japan and its legacy / Takemae Eiji ; translated and adapted from the Japanese by Robert Ricketts and Sebastian Swann

953.8053 T843
The siege of Mecca : the forgotten uprising in Islam's holiest shrine and the birth of al Qaeda / Yaroslav Trofimov

955.05 M157
The Iranians : Persia, Islam, and the soul of a nation / Sandra Mackey ; W. Scott Harrop, research assistant

954 B875
Modern India : the origins of an Asian democracy / Judith M. Brown

954 W86I
India / Stanley Wolpert

954 W866 2004
A new history of India / Stanley Wolpert

954.0088 V325
Ethnic conflict and civic life : Hindus and Muslims in India / Ashutosh Varshney

954.03 J27
Raj : the making and unmaking of British India / Lawrence James

954.035092 G195FL
The life of Mahatma Gandhi / by Louis Fischer

954.035092 G195B
Gandhi : prisoner of hope / Judith M. Brown

954.035092 G195A
Gandhi / David Arnold

954.04 G197
Conflict unending : India-Pakistan tensions since 1947 / Sumit Ganguly

954.05 UN55
Understanding contemporary India / edited by Sumit Ganguly and Neil DeVotta

954.9105 W363
Pakistan : in the shadow of jihad and Afghanistan / Mary Anne Weaver
Weaver, Mary Anne.

955.054 B16
The reign of the ayatollahs : Iran and the Islamic revolution / Shaul Bakhash

955.054 K96
The unthinkable revolution in Iran / Charles Kurzman

956 H927
Between memory and desire : the Middle East in a troubled age / R. Stephen Humphreys

956 M875
Righteous victims : a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1999 / Benny Morris

956.015 K18
Empires of the sand : the struggle for mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 / Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh.

956.04 C933
The Liberty incident : the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S. Navy spy ship / A. Jay Cristol

956.053 R823
The missing peace : the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace / Dennis Ross

956.05 AB148
Instability and conflict in the Middle East : people, petroleum, and security threats / Naji Abi-Aad and Michel Grenon ; foreword by Robert Marbo

956.049 M138
A modern history of the Kurds / David McDowall

956.046 OR66
Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East / Michael B. Oren

956.04 W952
Sacred rage : the crusade of modern Islam / Robin Wright

955.054 W952
In the name of God : the Khomeini decade / Robin Wright

955.054 W952L
The last great revolution : turmoil and transformation in Iran / Robin Wright

956.1 K56
Crescent and star : Turkey between two worlds / Stephen Kinzer

956.1 Z96
Turkey : modern history
Zurcher, Erik J.

956.102 AH286
The making of modern Turkey / Feroz Ahmad.

956.62015 B171
The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response / Peter Balakian

956.704 K45
Republic of fear : the inside story of Saddam's Iraq / Samiral-Khalil

956.7043 D24
Triumph in the desert : the challenge, the fighting, the legacy/ by Peter David ; edited by Ray Cave and Pat Ryan

956.70443 K26
The Iraq war / by John Keegan

956.70443 K19
Embedded : the media at war in Iraq / Bill Katovsky, Timothy Carlson

956.70443 AN547
The fall of Baghdad / Jon Lee Anderson

956.70443 P119
The assassins' gate : America in Iraq / George Packer

956.7043 SM65
George Bush's war / Jean Edward Smith

956.7043092 H972K
Saddam Hussein : a political biography / Efraim Karsh andInari Rautsi

956.7044 M235
Cruelty and silence : war, tyranny, uprising, and the Arab World / Kanan Makiya

956.7044 M651
Blood money: wasted billions, lost lives, and corporate greed in Iraq / T. Christian Miller

956.9442 J56
Jerusalem : a city and its future / edited by Marshall J. Breger and Ora Ahimeir

956.9442 AR73
Jerusalem : one city, three faiths / Karen Armstrong

956.94092 AR658R
Yasir Arafat : a political biography / Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin

956.94054092 P437
Shimon Peres : the biography / Michael Bar-Zohar

956.94054 SCH33
Intifada : the Palestinian uprising--Israel's third front / Ze'ev Schiff & Ehud Ya'ari ; edited and translated by Ina Friedman

956.9405 M563
Christian attitudes towards the State of Israel, 1948-2000 / Paul Charles Merkley

956.9405 EZ99
Rubber bullets : power and conscience in modern Israel / by Yaron Ezrahi

956.9405 B465
Intimate enemies : Jews and Arabs in a shared land / Meron Benvenisti

956.9404 B583
A concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict / Ian J. Bickerton, Carla L. Klausner

956.94 SE454
One Palestine, complete : Jews and Arabs under the Mandate / Tom Segev ; translated by Haim Watzman

956.94 L317
A history of Zionism / Ubyu Walter Laqueur

956.94 K94 2003
The Palestinian people : a history / Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal

956.94 K94
Palestinians : the making of a people / Baruch Kimmerling,Joel S. Migdal

956.9204 F53
Pity the nation : the abduction of Lebanon / Robert Fisk

958 G882
The empire of the steppes; a history of central Asia. Translated from the French by Naomi Walford. Grousset, René, 1885-1952.

958 M613
Tournament of shadows : the race for empire in Central Asia / by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.

958.042 K38
Jihad : the trail of political Islam / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony F. Roberts

958.0429 R224
Jihad : the rise of militant Islam in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid

958.1015 P17
The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire / Alan Palmer.

958.104 R224
Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid

958.1045 K17
Soldiers of God : with Islamic warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Robert D. Kaplan

958.1045 C796
Out of Afghanistan : the inside story of the Soviet withdrawal / Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison

958.1045 C774
Unholy wars : Afghanistan, America, and international terrorism / John K. Cooley

958.1045 L83
Holy war, unholy victory : eyewitness to the CIA's secret warin Afghanistan / Kurt Lohbeck ; foreword by Dan Rather

958.1045 C697
Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll

958.1046092 B612J
In the name of Osama bin Laden : global terrorism & the bin Laden brotherhood / Roland Jacquard ; Samia Serageldin, consulting editor ; George Holoch, translator

958.1046092 B612B
Holy war, Inc. : inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden / Peter L. Bergen

958.1046 G852
Reaping the whirlwind : the Taliban movement in Afghanistan / Michael Griffin

958.1046 G655
Afghanistan's endless war : state failure, regional politics, and the rise of the Taliban / Larry P. Goodson

958.1047 M157
The interrogators : inside the secret war against al Qaeda / Chris Mackey and Greg Miller

958.408 B128
Central Asians under Russian rule : a study in culture change / by Elizabeth E. Bacon

958.7086 F353
The devil and the disappearing sea : a true story about the Aral Sea catastrophe / Rob Ferguson

959 EM53
The emergence of modern Southeast Asia : a new history / edited by Norman G. Owen ... [et al.]

959 IN35
In search of Southeast Asia : a modern history / Chandler, David P.

959 SA24
Southeast Asia, past & present / D.R. SarDesai

959.1 C877
Chasing the dragon : into the heart of the Golden Triangle / Christopher R. Cox

959.4 H2
Tragic mountains : the Hmong, the Americans, and the secretwars for Laos, 1942-1992 / Jane Hamilton-Merritt

959.604 C45
The tragedy of Cambodian history : politics, war, and revolution since 1945 / David P. Chandler

959.604 B625
The gate / François Bizot ; translated from the French by Euan Cameron ; with a preface by John Le Carré

959.604 K47
The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan

959.604092 P762
Brother Number One : a political biography of Pol Pot / David P. Chandler

959.604092 P762SH
Pol Pot : anatomy of a nightmare / Philip Short
Short, Philip.

959.7 F19H
Hell in a very small place; the siege of Dien Bien Phu / UbyuBernard B. Fall
Fall, Bernard B., 1926-1967.
(Detailed account of the Vietnamese defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu.)

959.7044 SA24
Vietnam : the struggle for national identity / D.R. SarDesai

959.704342 M82
We were soldiers once...and young : Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam / Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

959.70438 N57
Where the ashes are : the odyssey of a Vietnamese family / Nguy*ên Quí Ð*uc

959.70438 Q7
Harvesting Pa Chay's wheat : the Hmong and America's secret war in Laos / Keith Quincy.

959.70438 T634
Desertion : in the time of Vietnam / Jack Todd

959.70434 W283
Back fire : the CIA's secret war in Laos and its link to the war in Vietnam / Roger Warner

959.7043 J77
Death of a generation : how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War / Howard Jones

959.704092 H678B
Ho Chi Minh : a biography / Pierre Brocheux ; translated by Claire Duiker

959.704092 H678D
Ho Chi Minh / William J. Duiker

959.704 EL46
The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family / by Duong Van Mai Elliott

959.704 L14
Ho Chi Minh; a political biography. / Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. Translation edited by Jane Clark Seitz

959.9 B97
Impossible dream : Marcos, Aquino, the unfinished revolution / Sandra Burton

959.903 K18
In our image : America's empire in the Philippines / StanleyKarnow

960 G19
Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960 / edited by L. H. Gann & Peter Duignan (Five volumes to pick from.)

960.3 D25
Modern Africa / Basil Davidson
Davidson, Basil, 1914-

960.3 F889
The making of contemporary Africa : the development of African Society since 1800 / Bill Freund

960.3 M55
The first dance of freedom : Black Africa in the postwar era / Martin Meredith

960.3 P152
The scramble for Africa : white man's conquest of the dark continent from 1876-1912 / Thomas Pakenham.  (The conquest of African told from a largely European perspective but a story well told.)

960.31 AF25
Africa under colonial domination, 1880-1935 / editor, A. Adu Boahen

960.312 W515
Divide and rule : the partition of Africa, 1880-1914 / H.L. Wesseling ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans.  (More scholarly than Pakenham’s gripping narrative but an excellent academic survey of the “scramble for Africa.”)

960.32 UN55
Understanding contemporary Africa / edited by April A. Gordon & Donald L. Gordon

960.329 B512
The graves are not yet full : race, tribe and power in the heart of Africa / Bill Berkeley
 (A serviceable survey but pick something livelier.)

960.32 H27
Decolonization in Africa / J.D. Hargreaves
 (Sound but less than riveting survey of decolonization.)

960.32 SCH377
African politics and society : a mosaic in transformation / Peter J. Schraeder

960.312 W515
Divide and rule : the partition of Africa, 1880-1914  / H.L.
Wesseling ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans.

962 G6
Modern Egypt : the formation of a nation-state / Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr
Goldschmidt, Arthur, 1938-

962.404 W253
Islam, sectarianism, and politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya / Gabriel Warburg

963.07 K29
Revolutionary Ethiopia : from empire to people's republic / Edmond J. Keller

966.7 M478
Asante identities : history and modernity in an African village, 1850-1950 / T.C. McCaskie

966.905 OS81
Crippled giant : Nigeria since independence / Eghosa E. Osaghae

966.0097541 M284
Francophone sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1995 / Patrick Manning

966.023092 F762F
The sword and the cross : two men and an empire of sand / Fergus Fleming

966.301 C592
From frontier to backwater : economy and society in the upper Senegal Valley, West Africa, 1850-1920 / Andrew F. Clark

967 D25L
Let freedom come : Africa in modern history / by Basil Davidson

967.5 H685
King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial
Africa  / Adam Hochschild.

967.6203 EL43
Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya / Caroline Elkins.

967.24 ED23
The troubled heart of Africa : a history of the Congo / Robert B. Edgerton

967.304 M667
Apartheid's contras : an inquiry into the roots of war in Angola and Mozambique / William Minter

967.6204 M257
Mau Mau and Kenya : an analysis of a peasant revolt / Wunyabari O. Maloba.
Maloba, Wunyabari O., 1950-

967.7305092 G411
The cost of dictatorship : the Somali experience / JamaMohamed Ghalib

967.9 F5
A complicated war : the harrowing of Mozambique / WilliamFinnegan

967.62 D296
Decolonization & independence in Kenya, 1940-93 / [edited by] B.A. Ogot and W.R. Ochieng'

967.57104 P972
The Rwanda crisis : history of a genocide / Gérard Prunier

967.57104 T286
Justice on the grass : three Rwandan journalists, their trial for war crimes, and a nation's quest for redemption / Dina Temple-Raston

968 M16
Bantu, Boer, and Briton; the making of the South African native problem. / Macmillan, William M. (William Miller), 1885-1974.

968 T474
A history of South Africa / Leonard Thompson

968 W75
The Oxford history of South Africa / edited by Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson

968.04092 R476R
The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power / Robert I. Rotberg, with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore.

968.204 P15
The Boer War / Thomas Pakenham.

968.04092 R476R
The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power / Robert I. Rotberg, with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore

968.0481 M559
Diamonds, gold, and war : the British, the Boers, and the making of South Africa / Martin Meredith.

968.05092 M27B
Nelson Mandela : the man and the movement / Mary Benson ; foreword by Desmond M. Tutu

968.063 T967
The rainbow people of God : the making of a peaceful revolution / Desmond Tutu ; edited by John Allen

968.064 SP73
Tomorrow is another country : the inside story of South Africa's road to change / Allister Sparks

968.065092 M27S
Nelson Mandela : the authorized biography / Anthony Sampson

968.082 B234
South Africa in the twentieth century : a political history in search of a nation state / James Barber

968.204 P15
The Boer War / Thomas Pakenham.

968 K16
The last empire : De Beers, diamonds, and the world / Stefan Kanfer

980.033 G95
The heart that bleeds : Latin America now / Alma Guillermoprieto

980.03092 G939C
Companero : the life and death of Che Guevara / Jorge G. Castaneda ; translated from the Spanish by Marina Castaneda

983.065 C75
A Nation of enemies : Chile under Pinochet / by Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela

983.06 F18
Modern Chile, 1970-1989 : a critical history / Mark Falcoff

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