Saturday, January 18, 2014

Top 10 History Book I liked reading



Recommended Read
  1. ·         History of India, John Keay
  2. ·         Emperors of Peacock Throne, Abraham Eraly
  3. ·         Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Colonel Tod
  4. ·         The Human Story, James C Davis
  5. ·         The Storm of War, Andrew Roberts
  6. ·         Babar Nama ·        
  7.  -    Empires of the Indus, Alice Albinia
  8. -          Great Battles
  9. -    World War, Winston Churchill
  10. -    The life of Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer
  11. ·         The Great Arc, John Keay   
  12. ·         A Fly on the wheel, T H Lewin
  13. ·         Genghis Khan, John Man
  14. ·         Historical Viewpoints, USA
  15. -     People's History of the World
  16. -     Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Reading in Progress
·         India after Gandhi, Ramchandra Guha
·         Gem in the Lotus, Abraham Eraly
·         Beyond the Lines, Kuldip Nayar
·         The Last Crusade (Vasco Da Gama), Nigel Cliff

OK Read
·         Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru
·         Honourable East India Company, John Keay
·         D Day, Antony Beevor
·         The last days of Raj, Trevor Royale
·         Alexander the Great, Robin Fox
·         Maharana Pratap, Kesri Singh
·         Sardhar Patel, Balraj Krishna
·         Empire, Niall Ferguson
·         Timelines of Indian History
·         Great Battles
·         Battles of World War II
·         World History, Pattern of Interaction
·         United States, Its History and Neighbours
·         Nothing like it in the world, Stephen Ambrose
·         Untold story of United States, Oliver Stone  
            Early Indian History, Romila Thapar

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