Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914

Barbara W. Tuchman

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

Maynard Mack

Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There, and Where It Is Heading

Jonathan Fenby

Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents

Jill Lepore

World War I: The Definitive Visual History from Sarajevo to Versailles

R.G. Grant

Short History Of World War II

D.K. Publishing

American History: A Very Short Introduction

Paul S. Boyer

The First World War : A New History

Hew Strachan

World War II - The Defining Moments of the War That Shaped the 20th Century

Igloo Books

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransom

Roland Chambers

Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History

Matthew White