2024 History Book Challenge - hosted by bookshelf_from_mars

A history of an event that occurred when you were a kid
Want to feel old? Read a book about an event that occurred when you were a kid. 
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé

My Great Arab Melancholy

Lamia Ziadé

416 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction art history memoir medium-paced
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy

520 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Deadly Innocence by Scott Burnside

Deadly Innocence

Scott Burnside

584 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction crime true crime dark slow-paced
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Loren Grush

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative inspiring medium-paced
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Jim DeFede

6 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
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