History, on the surface, doesn't seem like a great subject foraudiobooks. Getting through almost any serious work of history involves some speed reading, as it's not unusual for award-winning books like Mary Fulbrook'sReckonings, the winner ofthe 2019 Wolfson Prize, to stretch to 500+ pag...
For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 and have continued to reverberate through the Israeli counterattack a...
It's tricky finding history books for teenagers at an age when they are too old for children's books, but not yet ready to read long, weighty tomes with lots of footnotes. Alex, a UK-based history fan who previously chose books for us age 10, returns to Five Books to recommend his ...
Against this backdrop, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight this year served a dual purpose. Some reflected on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s past—including lynchings in the Jim Crow South and a New Deal culture war—informs its present ...
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The 100 Best History Books of All Time list contains a mixture of the most rewarding history books ever written.
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Ten Best Books of 2023. Ed Park weaves together three distinct narrative voices with an archive of mysterious images and twists reality like a kaleidoscope. Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives come together in this extraordinary and unforgettable novel.Find out more >...
History Today| Published inHistory TodayVolume 67 Issue 12 December 2017 Averil Cameron My choice is Minoo Dinshaw’s biography,Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman(Allen Lane). Steven Runciman was a historian of Byzantium, who was also a member of a louche social set in ...