Your most favorite historical book

[gossipgirl]

What is your favorite Historical book. Mine happens to be Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson. It is so good that i have read it about 5 times. I hope to get the book for my birthday which is in about 2 weeks.

 

[Axel]

My favorite historical book....

Tie between "Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster", "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Boston Mob", "The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob", and "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders".

Those are my total favorite historical books of all-time. But I'm supposed to go book shopping this weekend and I really want to buy "Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West" because we read an excerpt in US History and it was really good.

 

[gossipgirl]

My favorite historical book....

Tie between "Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster", "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Boston Mob", "The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob", and "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders".

Those are my total favorite historical books of all-time. But I'm supposed to go book shopping this weekend and I really want to buy "Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West" because we read an excerpt in US History and it was really good.

I have a favorite historical fiction book which is Call Innocent Traiter: A novel of lady jane grey. by alison weir.

 

[TinkerTracy]

All the books by Phillipa Gregory I mean they are based on history but have some embellishments. I love to read about the royal courts of England.

 

[JulielovesDisney]

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Civil War)
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton (WWII)

 

[BabyPiglet]

Rena's Promise.

It's about a girl and her sister at Auschwitz-Birkenau, but it's unlike any other accounts of the camp I've ever read. And I've head alot about the Holocaust.

But I love history books, it's one of my favorite genres.

 

[gossipgirl]

All the books by Phillipa Gregory I mean they are based on history but have some embellishments. I love to read about the royal courts of England.

I loved reading the Boylen Inheritence.

 

[TinkerTracy]

Ah that book was so good
read her others
The Other Boylen Girl
The Constant Princess
and there's one I'm forgetting...

 

[kidpluto]

omg, i love history books, my favorite would have to be
Night by Elie Wiesel,
I have lived a thousand years by Livia Bitton-Jackson,

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis (not finished yet but really good so far), Flags of Our Brothers by James Bradley (I also want to read his othe book Flyboys [both are now big movies])

and anthor one that is not truely history but I guess you could say modern international book? maybe, well it is The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

 

[Columba]

The Classical World: From Homer to Hadrian
Livy's stuff
The Samurai: A Military History of Japan

 

[3mtn-kate]

i really loved Out of the Dust

it's about the dust bowls in oklahoma and stuff it's really sad but it's really good too

 

[TinkerTracy]

Out of the dust was really good...I wrote a letter to the author in like 5th grade for a class assignment and she wrote me back an amazing postcard that I still have

 

[BandGeek911]

Night- Elie Wiesel.

I'm not a big fan of historical books though.

 

[gossipgirl]

Have any of you read books about the romanov's.

 

[::Snow_White::]

We are getting ready to read Night in English class.
I'm excited.

I've read 2 other books about the holocaust that were very good but I can't remember the names.

 

[gossipgirl]

I love reading about the romanov's because they are such intresing people.

 

[Sparx]

Gone With The Wind.

maybe its cause i'm southern.

 

[OneTreeHill]

The Diary of Anne Frank
Absolutley love this book.

 

[gossipgirl]

The Diary of Anne Frank
Absolutley love this book.

Is that a good book.

 

[OneTreeHill]

Is that a good book.

We're you asking that as a question or were you saying it was a good book? Sorry, I confuse easily.
Well- in case you were asking, yes, it was an excellent and sad book.