History books reco

[Anonymous]

Interested in learning about world history and a complete book will be a million pages long to cover all of it. But I am looking for something easy to read and digest and something that covers last 100 years or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interested in learning about world history and a complete book will be a million pages long to cover all of it. But I am looking for something easy to read and digest and something that covers last 100 years or so.

Of the entire world?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interested in learning about world history and a complete book will be a million pages long to cover all of it. But I am looking for something easy to read and digest and something that covers last 100 years or so.

Of the entire world?

Looking to understand the effects of world war I and II and may be about the rise of communism, cold war and end of cold war, formation of EU and so on. I know there are separate books for each of the topics. I am looking to get a glimpse into last 100 years of history.

[Anonymous]

Nonfiction or historical fiction? I mostly have recs for the latter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nonfiction or historical fiction? I mostly have recs for the latter.

Non fiction

[Anonymous]

In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century is very readable. (Obviously, it covers Europe).

[Anonymous]

Ken Follet’s Century Trilogy is a good fiction rec, primarily American, English, and German narratives. Spans the 20th century through the fall of the Berlin Wall. I learned a lot reading it!

[Anonymous]

I really don’t think you will find an enjoyable book that fits the bill here. It’s too big a scope.

I recommend The Rest is History podcast — you can pick which time periods interest you but it’s a good way to get some perspective on different time periods in a digestible way.

Also a quick interesting read that had a surprising amount of British history is the road to little dribbling.

I’ll keep trying to think of some that are light reads and put together would give some perspective.

[Anonymous]

If you’re up for an audiobook approach, take a look at the Great Courses series. They’re expensive to buy, but I’ve found a bunch to download from the library via Libby.

[Anonymous]

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr sort of touches on a lot of these issues.

It's hard to come up with a tidy "during X period," because you have to backtrack to understand the period before the period you're reading about, too

[Anonymous]

Shortest History of .... series

Many titles, 250-300 pages
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WPZLGDC?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk

Just finished England by James Hawes

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