Best Books About Twentieth Century History

100.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War 4.52 avg rating — 83,093 ratings
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The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century 4.02 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Making of the President 1968
The Making of the President 1968 4.18 avg rating — 766 ratings
104.
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium 3.66 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter
Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story
Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story 4.08 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 4.34 avg rating — 21,553 ratings
108.
Gotti: Rise and Fall
Gotti: Rise and Fall 3.88 avg rating — 840 ratings
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Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century 3.85 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act 4.01 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
by: Mark Felt
3.71 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History 3.84 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds: The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century
The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds: The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century 3.60 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents from Kennedy to Obama
The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents from Kennedy to Obama 3.78 avg rating — 616 ratings
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The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century 3.94 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War 3.77 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century 4.21 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
119.
A war imagined: The First World War and English culture
A war imagined: The First World War and English culture 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings
119.
Re-Situating Folklore: Folk Contexts And Twentieth-Century Literature And Art
Re-Situating Folklore: Folk Contexts And Twentieth-Century Literature And Art 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
121.
Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin
Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin 3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life
Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life 4.09 avg rating — 770 ratings
123.
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World 3.83 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
123.
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine 4.39 avg rating — 8,870 ratings
123.
Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century
Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,805 ratings
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The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art
The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War 3.83 avg rating — 4,217 ratings
128.
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
130.
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music 3.95 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century 3.84 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany 4.05 avg rating — 30,230 ratings
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A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century 4.11 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams 4.08 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953 3.67 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,312 ratings
136.
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film 4.21 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century 3.99 avg rating — 3,711 ratings
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A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment 4.09 avg rating — 4,213 ratings
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A Modern Southern Reader
A Modern Southern Reader 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
141.
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov 3.76 avg rating — 540 ratings
141.
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (Eastman Studies in Music, 41)
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (Eastman Studies in Music, 41)
by: Ray Allen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
143.
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War 4.31 avg rating — 6,886 ratings
143.
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating — 62,928 ratings
143.
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating — 10,878 ratings
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 4.44 avg rating — 7,332 ratings
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character 4.31 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914 4.11 avg rating — 453 ratings
149.
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 4.30 avg rating — 17,969 ratings
149.
Vietnam: A History
Vietnam: A History 4.13 avg rating — 7,806 ratings
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A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power 4.21 avg rating — 6,178 ratings
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Doing Oral History (Oral History Series)
Doing Oral History (Oral History Series) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Pétain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History
Pétain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History 3.64 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Miracle of Dunkirk
The Miracle of Dunkirk 3.99 avg rating — 5,085 ratings
154.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
The Secret History of Wonder Woman 3.73 avg rating — 16,562 ratings
157.
Day of Infamy
Day of Infamy 4.12 avg rating — 4,772 ratings
157.
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
by: Alan Paul
4.26 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
159.
Why the Allies Won
Why the Allies Won 4.19 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
159.
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Reilly: Ace of Spies 3.55 avg rating — 263 ratings
159.
Nanci Griffith's Other Voices: A Personal History of Folk Music
Nanci Griffith's Other Voices: A Personal History of Folk Music 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings
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America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation
America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation 3.84 avg rating — 426 ratings
162.
The Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History
The Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History 3.85 avg rating — 113 ratings
164.
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death 3.93 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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A History of Narrative Film
A History of Narrative Film 4.12 avg rating — 621 ratings
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Maus, #1-2)
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Maus, #1-2) 4.58 avg rating — 245,699 ratings
168.
The Fifties
The Fifties 4.28 avg rating — 6,833 ratings
168.
Ebola: The Natural and Human History
Ebola: The Natural and Human History 4.18 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
168.
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta 4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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The Nazi Olympics
The Nazi Olympics 3.49 avg rating — 53 ratings
171.
Germany: Memories of a Nation
Germany: Memories of a Nation 4.52 avg rating — 3,473 ratings
171.
A History of Underground Comics
A History of Underground Comics 3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Nightmare Years: 1930-40 (20th Century Journey, #2)
The Nightmare Years: 1930-40 (20th Century Journey, #2) 4.34 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book 3.74 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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Comix: A History of Comic Books in America
Comix: A History of Comic Books in America 4.03 avg rating — 88 ratings
177.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s 3.98 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 4.23 avg rating — 13,399 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base 3.86 avg rating — 10,398 ratings
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 4.06 avg rating — 978 ratings
180.
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall 4.20 avg rating — 21,291 ratings
180.
Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons
Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons 4.27 avg rating — 375 ratings
183.
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
183.
The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History
The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Origins of the Second World War
The Origins of the Second World War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
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Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
187.
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin 4.15 avg rating — 159 ratings
187.
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
by: Eri Hotta
3.97 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
187.
Bluegrass: A History
Bluegrass: A History 4.14 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Days of Sadness Years of Triumph: The American People 1939-1945
Days of Sadness Years of Triumph: The American People 1939-1945 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 4.19 avg rating — 28,146 ratings
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Rock & Roll: An Unruly History
Rock & Roll: An Unruly History 3.89 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb 4.19 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
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The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II
The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II 4.26 avg rating — 801 ratings
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies 3.99 avg rating — 13,563 ratings
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Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television
Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 4.30 avg rating — 2,996 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 4.08 avg rating — 7,068 ratings
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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s 4.15 avg rating — 571 ratings
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A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 4.15 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
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