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The History of a Year
1.
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
by:
Giusto Traina
3.49 avg rating β 169 ratings
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A. D. 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State
by:
Charles Freeman
3.90 avg rating β 403 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
by:
Robert Lacey
3.87 avg rating β 5,818 ratings
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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Worldβand Globalization Began
by:
Valerie Hansen
3.68 avg rating β 1,837 ratings
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1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
by:
Ed West
4.01 avg rating β 701 ratings
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
by:
David Howarth
4.06 avg rating β 4,524 ratings
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
by:
Eric H. Cline
3.74 avg rating β 11,947 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by:
Danny Danziger
3.81 avg rating β 2,294 ratings
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1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
by:
Ian Mortimer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 818 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by:
Gavin Menzies
3.61 avg rating β 15,061 ratings
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
by:
Gavin Menzies
3.45 avg rating β 1,543 ratings
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by:
Roger Crowley
4.25 avg rating β 6,902 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating β 93,184 ratings
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1492: The Year the World Began
by:
Felipe FernΓ‘ndez-Armesto
3.69 avg rating β 960 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating β 20,586 ratings
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1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
by:
Stephen R. Bown
3.89 avg rating β 349 ratings
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1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII
by:
Suzannah Lipscomb
4.10 avg rating β 641 ratings
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1587: A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
by:
Ray Huang
4.33 avg rating β 1,515 ratings
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1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era
by:
Christopher Lee
3.43 avg rating β 184 ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
by:
James Shapiro
4.06 avg rating β 2,430 ratings
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1616: The World in Motion
by:
Thomas Christensen
3.83 avg rating β 106 ratings
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1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire
by:
Rebecca Rideal
3.82 avg rating β 1,285 ratings
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Plassey 1757: Clive of India's Finest Hour (Campaign, 35)
by:
Peter Harrington
3.52 avg rating β 27 ratings
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1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
by:
Frank McLynn
3.89 avg rating β 203 ratings
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
by:
Mary Beth Norton
3.75 avg rating β 433 ratings
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1775: A Good Year for Revolution
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.67 avg rating β 853 ratings
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1776
by:
David McCullough
4.10 avg rating β 243,351 ratings
28.
1789: Twelve Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change
by:
Marc Aronson
3.72 avg rating β 142 ratings
29.
The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
by:
William K. Klingaman
3.43 avg rating β 1,264 ratings
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1831: Year of Eclipse
by:
Louis P. Masur
3.37 avg rating β 204 ratings
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1848: Year of Revolution
by:
Mike Rapport
3.72 avg rating β 956 ratings
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
by:
Adam Goodheart
4.06 avg rating β 6,097 ratings
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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
by:
Charles Bracelen Flood
3.95 avg rating β 572 ratings
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1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal
by:
Christopher Moore
3.91 avg rating β 76 ratings
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1877: America's Year of Living Violently
by:
Michael A. Belesiles
3.98 avg rating β 197 ratings
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1898 : The Birth of the American Century
by:
David Traxel
3.60 avg rating β 104 ratings
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The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
by:
Robert F. Bruner
3.87 avg rating β 844 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
by:
Jim Rasenberger
3.84 avg rating β 426 ratings
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To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.65 avg rating β 803 ratings
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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -- The Election that Changed the Country
by:
James Chace
3.79 avg rating β 764 ratings
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1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica
by:
Chris Turney
3.87 avg rating β 180 ratings
42.
1913: The Year Before the Storm
by:
Florian Illies
3.89 avg rating β 6,942 ratings
43.
Crossroads: 1913
by:
Paul M. Angle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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1914: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
by:
Paul Ham
3.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
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July 1914: Countdown to War
by:
Sean McMeekin
4.10 avg rating β 1,229 ratings
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1914: The Days of Hope
by:
Lyn Macdonald
4.20 avg rating β 302 ratings
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1915: The Death Of Innocence
by:
Lyn Macdonald
4.18 avg rating β 530 ratings
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1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
by:
David Stevenson
3.91 avg rating β 119 ratings
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
by:
Arthur Herman
4.08 avg rating β 958 ratings
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1918: War and Peace
by:
Gregor Dallas
3.54 avg rating β 37 ratings
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1919, The Year Our World Began
by:
William K. Klingaman
3.88 avg rating β 26 ratings
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1919: Britain's Year of Revolution
by:
Simon Webb
4.24 avg rating β 37 ratings
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1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar
by:
Eric Burns
3.49 avg rating β 724 ratings
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1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
by:
David Pietrusza
3.97 avg rating β 1,430 ratings
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1927: High Tide of the 1920s
by:
Gerald Leinwand
3.47 avg rating β 17 ratings
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1927: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Jazz Age's Greatest Year
by:
Thomas S. Hischak
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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1929: The Year of the Great Crash
by:
William K. Klingaman
3.73 avg rating β 44 ratings
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1932 : A hell of a Year
by:
Gerald Stone
3.82 avg rating β 56 ratings
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1938: Hitler's Gamble
by:
Giles MacDonogh
3.55 avg rating β 203 ratings
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1941: The America That Went to War
by:
William M. Christie
4.13 avg rating β 15 ratings
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June 1941: Hitler and Stalin
by:
John Lukacs
3.67 avg rating β 238 ratings
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1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge
by:
William K. Klingaman
4.29 avg rating β 21 ratings
63.
1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War
by:
Marc Wortman
4.37 avg rating β 201 ratings
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
by:
Jay Winik
4.10 avg rating β 1,640 ratings
65.
1947: Where Now Begins
by:
Elisabeth Γ sbrink
3.93 avg rating β 2,515 ratings
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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
by:
David Pietrusza
4.08 avg rating β 309 ratings
67.
Summer of '49
by:
David Halberstam
4.11 avg rating β 9,829 ratings
68.
Two Minutes to Midnight: 1953 The Year of Living Dangerously
by:
Roger Hermiston
4.23 avg rating β 22 ratings
69.
1956: The World in Revolt
by:
Simon Hall
3.92 avg rating β 225 ratings
70.
1959: The Year Everything Changed
by:
Fred Kaplan
3.71 avg rating β 582 ratings
71.
1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
by:
David Pietrusza
4.14 avg rating β 720 ratings
72.
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
by:
David Maraniss
3.83 avg rating β 1,527 ratings
73.
1963: The Year of the Revolution
by:
Robin Morgan
3.25 avg rating β 173 ratings
74.
1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music
by:
Andrew Grant Jackson
3.84 avg rating β 507 ratings
75.
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
by:
Jon Savage
4.08 avg rating β 477 ratings
76.
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East
by:
Tom Segev
3.98 avg rating β 455 ratings
77.
1967: The Last Good Year
by:
Pierre Berton
4.02 avg rating β 91 ratings
78.
HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
by:
Mark Bowden
4.33 avg rating β 7,778 ratings
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1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture & the Shaping of a Generation
by:
Charles Kaiser
3.85 avg rating β 266 ratings
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1968
by:
Michael T. Kaufman
3.95 avg rating β 77 ratings
81.
1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
by:
Richard Vinen
3.45 avg rating β 92 ratings
82.
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.82 avg rating β 3,294 ratings
83.
1969: The Year Everything Changed
by:
Rob Kirkpatrick
3.72 avg rating β 871 ratings
84.
1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
by:
Andreas Killen
3.72 avg rating β 151 ratings
85.
1983: The World at the Brink
by:
Taylor Downing
4.27 avg rating β 956 ratings
86.
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by:
Victor Sebestyen
4.34 avg rating β 1,509 ratings