Good General History Books

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,099 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,202,027 ratings
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 3.92 avg rating — 17,902 ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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The Basque History of the World
The Basque History of the World 3.87 avg rating — 5,450 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,877 ratings
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That Dark and Bloody River
That Dark and Bloody River 4.32 avg rating — 924 ratings
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High, Wide and Lonesome
High, Wide and Lonesome 4.31 avg rating — 679 ratings
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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue 4.21 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Reap the Whirlwind
Reap the Whirlwind 4.34 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Black Sun
Black Sun 4.25 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome 4.11 avg rating — 6,409 ratings
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On the Border with Crook
On the Border with Crook 4.17 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Democracy: A Life
Democracy: A Life 3.80 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Don Troiani's Soldiers in America 1754-1865
Don Troiani's Soldiers in America 1754-1865 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,905 ratings
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India 4.17 avg rating — 12,329 ratings
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Gone For Soldiers
Gone For Soldiers 4.16 avg rating — 6,194 ratings
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The Persian Empire
The Persian Empire 4.10 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Agincourt
Agincourt 4.16 avg rating — 31,317 ratings
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China: A Macro History (An East Gate Book)
China: A Macro History (An East Gate Book)
by: Ray Huang
4.03 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series) 3.70 avg rating — 325 ratings
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U.S. Army Ambulances and Medical Vehicles in World War II
U.S. Army Ambulances and Medical Vehicles in World War II 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783 1846
The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783 1846 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Forts and Forays: A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856
Forts and Forays: A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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In Flanders Fields: Passchendaele 1917
In Flanders Fields: Passchendaele 1917 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo 3.89 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II 4.53 avg rating — 6,473 ratings
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To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War 4.25 avg rating — 7,524 ratings
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Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series)
Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 13,255 ratings
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U-Boats Against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters
U-Boats Against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jeffe
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jeffe 4.23 avg rating — 66,342 ratings
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The Washing of the Spears
The Washing of the Spears 4.24 avg rating — 988 ratings
35.
Send a Gunboat
Send a Gunboat 3.98 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Apache wars: An illustrated battle history
Apache wars: An illustrated battle history
by: Reedstrom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles 4.24 avg rating — 8,545 ratings