When we were in middle school, we learned world history, but the stories outside the textbooks, you know?
During World War I, the French army was transported to the front line by taxi, and the meter was still counting.
The poor management of railways in Austria-Hungary made experts feel that military operations were slower than a decent bicycle.
When it comes to history books, they are mostly thick tomes, which makes readers daunted. If there is such a history book, it will not only increase your wisdom, but also make you read deeply into it, addictive, like watching a movie blockbuster. Does that pique your interest in reading history?
This time, Xiaobian carefully selected a list of history books for you, whether you are on the road, pillow, or car, you can open the history of the world!
World War I: Disillusionment with Prosperity
By Norman Stone
CITIC Publishing Group
This book simplifies the complexity, outlines the outline and process of the "First World War", and provides readers with concise and clear clues, so that readers can understand the complex topics of the 20th century in a short period of time, saving time and energy costs. Concentrate the essence, a few sentences show the texture of the blockbuster. Using a playful and satirical brushwork, he not only pulled out the troubles in the "First World War", but also spat out the important events and characters in the "First World War", using humor to reveal the truth of the war and show his wisdom.
World War II: The Dark Ages
World War II is a nightmare in the minds of modern people. In this unprecedented war, in the midst of a wave of despair and resentment, ideas about human progress have been completely rejected. For more than seventy years, its clouds have not dissipated. Norman Stone, a legendary professor at Oxford University and an adviser to thatcher's government, takes the reader back to the gripping and dangerous situation of World War II, giving an in-depth analysis of how a European war turned into a world catastrophe, recreating a dark age that distorted science and humanity and disintegrated.
History of Postwar Europe
By Tony Judt
"If you don't understand Europe, you can't understand the world", the history of the previous study, is told one after another, and never carefully combs the logic between different events. Events seem to happen by chance, but the correct answer to the view of history must be causal, so history always feels contradictory and lies everywhere, but this is not the case in "History of Post-War Europe".
The author of this book, Judt, has a stunning language style, always able to take a personalized or even anthropomorphic expression of big events, big countries, and big patterns, and writes about a country as vividly as an individual.
Hitler's Shadow Empire
By Pierre Paul Pavelli
The book excavates the dusty archives, breaks through the fog of history, and recreates a thrilling past before and after World War II in a panoramic manner within the framework of comparative economics.
In describing this past, the author portrays the ever-changing international political and economic situation at the time, revealing that the major European powers were independent of each other, taking their neighbors as their neighbors, and conniving at the military expansion of Nazi Germany. The book combines history and economics, rigorous and interesting, focusing on history without losing practical care. Reading today, when the momentum of "anti-globalization" is becoming more and more obvious, it has a different meaning.
Distant Bridge: Operation Market Garden 1944
By Cornelius Ryan
Tens of millions of global super bestsellers, epic masterpieces that shocked the hearts of readers in 36 countries. Operation Market Garden's Battle of Arnhem was the boldest and most imaginative of World War II, but it was also the only major defeat the Allies suffered on the Battlefield in Europe. This great battle cannot be repeated, and this legendary classic cannot be rewritten. In the modern commercial society far from the battlefield smoke, "The Distant Bridge" is still a good book that deserves to be repeatedly revisited by everyone and used for a lifetime.
The Last Battle: The Battle of Berlin in 1945
Focus the perspective on the ordinary people who participated in the war, so that the face of history is clear enough to interpret the Real World War II. "The giant standing at the intersection of journalism and history writing" Cornelius Ryan, telling the story of people in war, lasted more than ten years, interviewed more than 2,000 people, "no word, no source" of World War II historical classics.
History of War
By John Keegan
Why has war never been far removed from humanity? How does war affect the fate of human society?
The layout of this book is ingenious, not in the form of a chronicle of a single line of war examples, but from the four themes of stone, meat, iron, and fire, multi-dimensional interpretation of war in human history. This book reflects on the fate of human society from the perspective of war, providing a reference for the survival of the present and the future development. This is a classic of the history of war in a civilized world that everyone deserves to read.
A Brief History of World War I
By Norman Stone
Europe in 1914 was like a colossus admired by all. Four years later, the continent is facing a total and catastrophic fracture. Why did the world's most developed European civilization have civil wars? How did the war escalate into a world war? A Brief History of World War I, by Norman Stone, tells you how heavenly Europe fell into hell overnight.
A Brief History of World War II
Books describing World War II are endless, and it is unlikely for beginners to hold the Oxford edition of the thirteen-volume "Germany and the Second World War" or read through Churchill's memoirs, but to promote Norman stone first in terms of the clear, concise, and thought-provoking history of World War II. This "A Brief History of World War II" is more readable and smoother, can be read in almost 1-2 days, and interspersed with representative questions and perspectives in the process of listing events.