The Germans

6 best books like The Germans (Gordon A. Craig): Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution, The Lessons of History, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Author	Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN	0525559531

The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Author

Hallie Rubenhold

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,...

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Author	Kapka Kassabova
ISBN	1555977863

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Author	Natalie S. Bober
ISBN	0689819161

Abigail Adams is often referred to as the wife of one president and the mother of another. Rarely is she described as a woman in her own right. Although her primary focus and concerns were in her role as wife and mother, she lives in history because of her extraordinary letters to her family and to her friends....

The Lessons of History

Author	Will Durant
ISBN	1567310249

In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of "The Story of Civilization." The result is a survey of human history, full of...

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Author	Jason Fried
ISBN	0062874780

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.

In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced...