Niles Public Library District

History

Spy Wore Red	by Aline, Countess of Romanones
Undaunted Courage	by Stephen Ambrose
Black Hawk Down	by Mark Bowden
Faith and Treason	by Antonia Fraser
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission	by Hampton Sides
Bounty: True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty	by Caroline Alexander
Discoverers	by Daniel J. Boorstin
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	by Dee Alexander Brown
Civil War: A Narrative	by Shelby Foote
Histories	by Herodotus
Waning of the Middle Ages	by Johan Huizinga
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany	by William L. Shirer
Democracy in America	by Alexis de Tocqueville
Chinese in America: A Narrative History	by Iris Chang
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World	by David Brion Davis
Cold War: A New History	by John Lewis Gaddis
Best and the Brightest	by David Halberstam
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free and Empire’s Slaves	by Adam Hochschild
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation	by Jon Meacham
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974	by James T. Patterson
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima	by Diana Preston
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire	by David Remnick
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution	by Simon Schama
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West	by Hampton Sides
Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln	by Sean Wilentz
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation	by Catherine Allgor
Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope	by Jonathan Alter
Lindbergh	by A. Scott Berg
Mao: The Unknown Story	by Jung Chang
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefller, Sr.	by Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton	by Ron Chernow
Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963	by Robert Dallek
His Excellency: George Washington	by Joseph J. Ellis
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale	by Gillian Gill
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln	by Doris Kearns Goodwin
John Adams	by David McCullough
Truman	by David McCullough
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation	by Cokie Roberts
Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness	by Joshua Wolf Shenk
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution	by Caroline Weber
1776	by David McCullough
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era	by James M. McPherson
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagels Nest	by Stephen E. Ambrose
Flags of Our Fathers	by James Bradley
Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II	by Iris Chang
Hiroshima	by John Hersey
Second World War	by John Keegan
Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII’s Most Decorated Platoon	by Alex Kershaw
Rumor of War	by Philip Caputo
Dispatches	by Michael Herr
We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam	by Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War	by Michael Sallah
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs: The Election That Changed the Country	by James Chace
1968: The Year That Rocked the World	by Mark Kurlansky
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence	by Pauline Maier
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War	by Nathaniel Philbrick
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy	by Diana Preston
Greatest Generation	by Tom Brokaw