Ten Steps to Prevent World War Three Tobias Ellwood The Ryukyu Islands Gregory Smits The Uses and Abuses of History Margaret Macmillan Cultural Dementia David Andress
A Concise History of Hungary by Miklos Molnar Budapest by Victor Sebestyen Twelve Days by Victor Sebestyen The Hungarian Revolution 1956 by Schmidl & Ritter Tainted Democracy by Zsuzsanna Szelenyi ******THIS IS, IMO, AN IMPORTANT BOOK IT IS THE INSIDE STORY OF HUNGARY'S DITCHING OF COMMUNISM, AND HOW ORBAN MOVED TO AN AUTHORITARIAN SOCIETY, BUT ALSO IS FASCINATING IN THE CONTEST OF EASTERN EUROPE AS A WHOLE, AND INDEED A WIDER EUROPE
The Shortest History of Germany James Hawes The Cold War ` Priscilla Roberts Europe Since 1989 Philipp Ther Berlin Sinclair McKay Berlin in The Cold War Thomas Flemming The Fall of The Berlin Wall ed Jeffrey Engel
Two short helpful monographs: Understanding The Middle East by Miguel Albert History of The Jews in Captivating History Series The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Martin Bunton in Oxford Very Short Introduction Series The Middle East for Dummies by Craig Davis (Ignore silly title this is an excellent text book) The Ottoman Endgame by Sean McMeekin
Vietnam (The War) Max Hastings History of Modern Vietnam (The War and more) Christopher Goscha The Vietnam War (first hand accounts) ed Jon Lewis NB There are, of course hundreds of books on Vietnam and the War, but rather than being swamped by it all, the three above will provide you with a detailed first approach
Essay on Mao in Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore Mao by Philip Short The Red Emperor [Xi Jinping] by Michael Sheridan Chapter on China in Revolutions by Peter Furtado Modern China by Rana Mitter
The classic work in English is 'A Savage War of Peace' by Alistair Horne. Some views you may feel are now dated. Or a general history of France such as France by Jeremy Black
Empire Niall Ferguson Freedom at Midnight Collins & Lapierre The Decline and Fall of the British Emp[ire Piers Brendon Shattered Lands Sam Dalrymple The Wild Men David Torrance Attlee dAVID hOWELL
Modern Japan Christopher Goto-Jones Histories of Nations (Japan paragraphs) Peter Furtado Victory against Japan 1944-45 (Ladybird Expert Series) James Holland Hiroshima Nagasaki Paul Ham China's War with Japan Rana Mitter Judgement at Tokyo Gary Bass Douglas MacArthur Arthur Herman
Stalin R Service Stalin S Sebag Montefiore Red Famine A Applebaum The Gulag Archipelago A Solzhenitsyn The Great Terror R Conquest Stalinist Society M Edele The Death of Stalin S Fitzpatrick Stalinism G Gill (short, intensive, and brilliant)
The World according to Colour James Fox Colour New Horizons Series Dictionary of English Folkore Simpson & Roud Red Michael Pastoureau (and any of his writings on colour)
1945: Victory in The West Peter Caddick-Adams Russia Martin Sixsmith Forged in War (Russian military history) Mark Galeotti The Fall of Berlin (magazine format) Bonner Publications Hitler's Last Day Richard Darcie The Pacific Hugh Ambrose Hiroshima Nagasaki Paul Ham