Recommendations from our site
“I love history and I find medical history in particular very gripping (especially the discovery of vaccines), so I really enjoyed The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus. The author, Lucy Ward, is a journalist so it’s good bedtime reading, bringing home nicely the story of the fight against the horrors of smallpox as well as focusing on Catherine the Great” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Spring 2022
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
by Alistair Horne -
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William Shirer -
Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia
by Marc Favreau -
Pompeii
by Robert Harris -
The Guns of August
by Barbara W Tuchman -
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
by John Pomfret
