Best History Books — 26 Summaries

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The key ideas from 26 of the best books about history, summarized in plain English and Khmer. Read or listen in about ten minutes a day.

• A History of CambodiaDavid Chandler
• A People's History of the United StatesHoward Zinn
• Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918Katja Hoyer
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical TechnologyChris Miller
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel
• Empire of the Summer MoonS. C. Gwynne
• First They Killed My FatherLoung Ung
• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965–2000Lee Kuan Yew
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldJack Weatherford
• How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro
• Mein Kampf: A critical summary of a dangerous bookAdolf Hitler
• On TyrannyTimothy Snyder
• Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
• Stay Alive, My SonPin Yathay with John Man
• Survival in the Killing FieldsHaing Ngor with Roger Warner
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedSteven Pinker
• The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Frederick Engels
• The Devil in the White CityErik Larson
• The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank
• The GateFrançois Bizot
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionWalter Isaacson
• The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli
• The Travels of Fa-Hien: A Chinese monk's pilgrimage to the Buddhist landsFa-Hien
• Why We're PolarizedEzra Klein

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