Holiday Shopping Guide 2011: Recommended Books and More

By HistoryNet
11/22/2011 • HistoryNet

Looking for a gift for a history enthusiast? Try this list of suggestions provided by the editors of World History Group’s magazines.

American History

• Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation, ed. by Alfred Young, Gary Nash and Ray Raphael
• The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, by Alan Taylor
• David Crockett: The Lion of the West, by Michael Wallis
• Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year, by Charles Bracelen Flood
• American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900, by H.W. Brands

America’s Civil War

• America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, by David R. Goldfield
• 1861: The Civil War Awakening, by Adam Goodheart
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz
• Lincoln on War: Our Greatest Commander-in-Chief Speaks to America, edited by Harold Holzer
• A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia From the Seven Days to Gettysburg, by Jeffry Wert

Aviation History

• Bombs Away! The World War II Bombing Campaigns Over Europe, by John R. Bruning
• Come Up And Get Me: The Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger, by Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan
• How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare, by Walter J. Boyne
• Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler’s Reich, by Robert F. Dorr
• The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation, by Thomas Kessner

British Heritage

• Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070, by Robin Fleming
• London’s Classic Restaurants: A Guide to London’s Iconic Restaurants and Eateries, by Cara Frost-Sharratt
• The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, by Ian Mortimer

Civil War Times

• The Siege of Washington: the Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union, by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
• The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner
• Stuart’s Tarheels: James B. Gordon and His North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War, 2nd Edition, by Chris J. Hartley
• Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee, by Joseph T. Glatthaar
• Decisions at Gettysburg: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Campaign, by Matt Spruill

Military History

• Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story, by Patrick K. O’Donnell
• What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes
• A History of the World in 100 Weapons, by Chris McNab
• Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War, by Hugh Howard

MHQ

• Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, by James D. Hornfischer
• The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, by Alan Taylor
• The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization, by Jim Lacey

See a more complete list at MHQ’s Reviews: Best Books of 2011.

Vietnam

• Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency From Ford to Obama, by Marvin and Deborah Kalb
• No Sure Victory, by Gregory A. Daddis
• The Vietnam War: An Assessment by South Vietnam’s Generals, ed. with essays by Lewis Sorley
• The Vietnam War—A Chronology of War, ed. by Col. Raymond Bluhm Jr.

Wild West

• Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man, by David A. Remley
• Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands, by Roger L. Di Silvestro
• Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary, by Steve Friesen
• Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez, by John Boessenecker
• The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral—And How it Changed the American West, by Jeff Guinn

World War II

• Combat! The complete series on DVD
• Brothers, Rivals,Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe,  by Jonathan W. Jordan
• Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington, By John F. Wukovits
• Always Faithful: U.S. Marines in World War II Combat, by Eric Hammel
• Dino D-Day: A frantic, team-based, first-person shooter about … Nazi dinosaurs

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