Suggested Reading for Years 10 & 11 History Students
Updated June 2014
Russia and the Russian Revolution
General Studies
Sheila Fitzpatrick ‘The Russian Revolution’ OUP 2008
Robert Service ‘The Russian Revolution 1900 – 1927 (Studies in European History)’ Palgrave Macmillan 2009
S A Smith ‘The Russian Revolution: A very short introduction’ Oxford Paperbacks 2002
Orlando Figues ‘A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891 – 1924’ Pimlico 1997
Orlando Figues ‘Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917’ Yale University Press 1999
Orlando Figues ‘Revolutionary Russia: 1891-1991’ Pelican 2014
Roy Bainton ‘A Brief History of 1917: Russia’s Year of Revolution’ Constable & Robinson 2005
A J P Taylor ‘Revolution and Revolutionaries’ Oxford Paperbacks 1981
Richard Pipes ‘The Russian Revolution: 1899 - 1919’ Fontana 1992
Victor Serge ‘From Lenin to Stalin’ Pathfinder Books 2005
Richard Pipes ‘Russia under the Bolshevik Regime: 1919-1924’ Harvill 1997
Edward Acton ‘Re-thinking the Russian Revolution’ Bloomsbury Academic 1990
Biography
Robert Service ‘Lenin: A Biography’ Pan 2010
Robert Service ‘Stalin: A Biography’ Pan 2010
Robert Service ‘Trotsky: A Biography’ Pan 2010
Isaac Deutscher ‘The Prophet Armed: Leon Trotsky: 1879-1921’ Oxford Paperbacks 1970
Isaac Deutscher ‘The Prophet Un-Armed: Leon Trotsky: 1921 – 1929’ Oxford Paperbacks 1970
Isaac Deutscher ‘The Prophet Outcast: Leon Trotsky 1929 -1940’ Oxford Paperbacks 1970
Alan Bullock ‘Hitler & Stalin: Parallel Lives’ Fontana 1998
Zhores A Medevev ‘The Unknown Stalin’ I.B Tauris 2005
Eyewitness Accounts and Recollections
Leon Trotsky ‘The Revolution Betrayed’ Aaker Books 2005
John Reed ‘Ten Days That Shook the World’ Penguin Classics 2007
Leon Trotsky ‘My Life: an attempt at an autobiography’ Dover Publications 2007
Mark Steinberg [ed.] ‘Voices of the Revolution’ Yale University Press 2002
Joseph Stalin ‘The Foundations of Leninism’ Foreign Languages Press 1970
Germany
General Studies
Laurence Rees ‘The Nazis: A Warning from History’ BBC Books 2006
Laurence Rees ‘World War Two behind Closed Doors’ BBC Books 2009
Laurence Rees ‘War of the Century: when Hitler fought Stalin’ BBC Books 1999
Richard J Evans ‘The Coming of Third Reich’ Penguin 2004
Richard J Evans ‘The Third Reich in Power’ Penguin 2006
Richard J Evans ‘The Third Reich at War’ Penguin 2009
Michael Burleigh ‘The Third Reich: A New History’ Pan 2001
Ian Kershaw ‘The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation’ Bloomsbury Academic 2000
Ian Kershaw ‘The End: Germany 1944-45’ Penguin 2012
Ian Kershaw ‘The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich’ Oxford Paperbacks 2001
AJP Taylor ‘The Origins of the Second World War’ Penguin 1991
Martin Gilbert ‘The Holocaust’ Harper Collins 1989
William L. Shirer ‘The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’ Arrow 1991
Biography
Ian Kershaw ‘Hitler’ Penguin 2009
Peter Longerich ‘Heinrich Himmler’ OUP [Reprint] 2012
Toby Thacker ‘Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death’ Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Richard Overy ‘Goering: Hitler’s Iron Knight’ Taurus New Ed 2010
Peter Hoffman ‘Stauffenberg: A Family History’ Queen’s University Press 2008
Eyewitness Accounts and Recollections
Alber Speer ‘Inside the Third Reich’ Phoenix 2009
Christabel Bielenberg ‘The Past is Myself’ Corgi 1988
Victor Klemperer ‘I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-41’ Phoenix 2009
Victor Klemperer ‘To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942 – 1945’ Phoenix 2000
Primo Levi ‘If this is Man/The Truce’ Abacus 1991
Lyn Smith ‘Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust’ Ebury Press 2006
Olga Lengyel ‘Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz’ Important Books 2013
Walter Schellenberg ‘The Memoirs of Hitler’s Spymaster’ Andre Deutsch Ltd 2006
William L Shirer ‘Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941’ Crown Publications 1987
America
General Studies
Alistair Cooke ‘America’ Penguin 2008
Hugh Brogen ‘The Penguin History of the United States’ Penguin 2001
Harold Zim ‘A People’s History of the United States 1492-Present’ Harper Perennial 2005
Simon Schama ‘The American Future: A History from the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama’ Vintage 2009
Nigel Hamilton ‘American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents from FDR to George W Bush’ Vintage 2011
Michael Heale ‘Twentieth Century America: Politics and Power in the United States 1900- 2000’ Bloomsbury Academic 2004
Thomas C Reeves ‘Twentieth Century America: A Brief History’ OUP USA 2000
Michael E Parrish ‘Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920-41’ W W Norton and Company 1994
David M Kennedy ‘Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929 – 1945’ OUP USA 2001
Erich Rauchway ‘The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction’ OUP USA 2008
Biography
William E Leuchtenburg ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal’ Harper Perennial 2009
David McCullough ‘Truman’ Simon & Schuster 1993
James Cross Giblin ‘The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy’ Haughton Harcourt 2010
Robert Dallack ‘John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963’ Penguin 2013
Robert Dallack ‘Lyndon B Johnson: Portrait of a President’ Penguin 2005#
Autobiography
Ronald Reagan ‘An American Life’ Threshold Editions 2009
Bill Clinton ‘My Life’ Arrow 2005
George W Bush ‘Decision Points’ Virgin Books 2011