What books have helped you understand history?

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12. I'll throw in a few

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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey D-Day to Yalta 1943-1945 by Nigel Hamilton

The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State by James Weinstein. How personalities, groups, events intertwine for political change. Fascinating.

FDR by Jean Edward Smith (Also wrote bio's of GWB and IKE) a really excellent biographer

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton. He makes the case for SOE guerilla tactics that altered the war by bleeding the Nazi Regime.

Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs. Speculative history that's a stretch, but he does connect a lot of dots.

Crises of the Republic by Hannah Arendt.

To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson. An old time historical standard that's gone far out of favor, but tells the story of how power came to be 'in the streets' for anyone with a plan to seize.

The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton. Classic.