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Books we recommend

These are lists of books which the department recommends for your private reading. The list is by no means complete, but we hope that you enjoy what is here.

If you would like to recommend any books, please email Mr Pendrill (crp@oundleschool.org.uk).

Click on a category below to take you to the relevant list.

China
Early Modern European
England
France
Germany
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Roman
Russia
Rwanda
Second World War
Spain
USA

China

Chang, J & Halliday, J Mao

Early Modern European

Levack, Brian The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe

England

Ackroyd, Peter Albion, and The Clerkenwell Tales
Adamson, John The Noble Revolt
Bates, David William the Conqueror
Dickens, Charles Pickwick Papers
Duckray, Keith William Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses and Historians
Duffy, Eamon Making the Hours: English People & their Prayers
Dunn, Alistair The Peasant’s Revolt 1381
Gaskill, Malcolm Witchfinders
Gillingham, John Richard I, and The Wars of the Roses
Hibberd, Dominic Wilfred Owen
Hobsbawm, Eric & Rude, George Captain Swing
Hunt, Tristram Building Jerusalem
Hutton, Ronald Witches, Druids and King Arthur
James, Lawrence The Iron Duke: A Biography of Wellington
Jones, Terry Medieval Lives, and Who Murdered Chaucer?
MacCulloch, Diarmaid Reformation
Marryat, Captain Children of the New Forest
Moynahan Brian William Tyndale: If God spare My life
Munroe, H.H. Collected works of Saki
Nicolson, Adam Power & the Glory
Porter, Roy English Society in the 18th Century
Potter, Harry Hanging in Judgment: Religion & the Death Penalty
Tinniswood, Adrian The Verneys
Waugh, Evelyn Decline and Fall Scoop
Wells, H.G War in the Air

France

Burl, Aubrey God’s Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade
Dwyer, Philip Napoleon
Dumas, Alexandre La Reine Margot
Scurr, Ruth Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

Germany

Deighton, Len Funeral in Berlin
Harris, Robert Fatherland

India

Forster, E.M. A passage to India
James. L Raj

Ireland

Doherty G. & Keogh D. (Ed) Michael Collins & the Making of the Irish State
Townshend, Charles Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion

Italy

Di Lampedusa The Leopard
Majanlahti, Anthony The Families who made Rome
Martines, Lauro April Blood

Japan

Lomax, Eric The Railway Man

Roman

Johnson, Boris The Dream of Rome

Russia

Figes, Orlando The Whisperers, and A People’s Tragedy
Sebag-Montefiore, Simon The Court of the Red Tsar
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Rwanda

Gouveritch, Philip We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our Families

Second World War

Overy, Richard Why the Allies Won
Kershaw, Ian Making friends with Hitler
Maclean, Fitzroy Eastern Approaches
Newborn, Jud & Dumbach, Annette Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
Isherwood, Christopher Goodbye to Berlin
Tooze, Adam The Wages of Destruction: The making and breaking of the Nazi Economy
Trevor Roper, Hugh The Last Days of Hitler

Spain

Patterson, Ian Guernica
Rawlings, Helen The Spanish Inquisition

USA

Breecher Stowe, Harriet Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Fergusen, Niall Colossus
Gaddis, John L. The Cold War
Kurlansky, Mark Cod: The Fish that Changed the World
McPherson, James Battle Cry for Freedom
Wooley, B. Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English America

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