Causes

Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects : I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections.

Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine

The Guns of August

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

The prize: the epic quest for oil, money & power

Daniel Yergin.

The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set)

Churchill, Winston, John Keegan

The wages of destruction: the making and breaking of the Nazi economy

Adam Tooze.

The Peloponnesian War

Thucydides ; translated by Martin Hammond, with an introduction and notes by P.J. Rhodes.

Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War In 1914

Christopher Clark

Reflections on the Revolution in France: edited with introd. and notes by F.G. Selby.

Edmund Burke

The old régime and the French Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville

Rights of man

Thomas Paine