Askhistorians books recommended by reddit

The most-mentioned books on r/AskHistorians.

Ordinary Men
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Third Reich at War
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Hitler, The Germans, And The Final Solution
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Denying the holocaust
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1491
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Auschwitz
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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The Second World War
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Denying History
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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The First World War
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The Thirty Years War
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Salt
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The Inheritance of Rome
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Embracing Defeat
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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The Wages of Destruction
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Battle Cry of Freedom
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
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On Killing
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Hundred Years War
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Alexander Hamilton
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Legacy of Ashes
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Genghis Khan
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Stalin
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The Face of Battle
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Bloodlands
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Iron Kingdom
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The Return of Martin Guerre
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
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Rubicon
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Japan at War
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Shattered Sword
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Stalingrad
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American Colonies
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Ghost Wars
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The Fall of Rome
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1493
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Why the West Rules--for Now
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All the Shah's Men
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Racing the Enemy
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Team of Rivals
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At Home
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Changes in the Land
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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Imagined Communities
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The Logistics of the Roman Army at War
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
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Britain After Rome
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
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Washington
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Albion's Seed
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The Landscape of History
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A History of Russia
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A Distant Mirror
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Why the Allies Won
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The World of Late Antiquity
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Orientalism
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Gates of Fire
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Muhammad and the Believers
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John Adams
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Cheese and the Worms
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A Peace to End All Peace
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
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The Great Game
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Who Wrote the Bible?
7 users
Reconstruction
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A Medieval Life
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The Republic of Pirates
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Caesar
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Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World
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Ivan's War
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Nothing to Envy
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Slavery by Another Name
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Motel of the Mysteries
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The Complete Roman Army
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Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
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That Noble Dream
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The Middle Ground
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The Military Revolution
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Ecological Imperialism
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The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
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Under the Black Flag
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The Ghosts of Cannae
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Postwar
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A History of God
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Paris 1919
6 users
The Viking World
6 users
How the Irish Became White
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The Making of Modern Japan
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Achilles in Vietnam
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The Great Divergence
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Byzantium
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Blood and Thunder
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From Cyrus to Alexander
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