Hitler by Ian Kershaw,
The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer,
Napoleon or
Winston Churchill by Andrew Roberts,
anything written by Winston Churchill,
Narconomics by Tom Wainright (essentially how to run a drug cartel),
Peoples' Tragedy by Orlando Figes (history of the Russian Revolutions and following Civil War),
The Patriarch by David Nasaw (the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of the Kennedy clan and all-round bastard),
Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (Henry Kissinger's biography, duh),
Hamilton by Ron Chernow (ignore the musical, the dude himself was pretty fucking amazing),
American Ulysses by Ronald White (turns out Grant was a really cool guy),
The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark (how the fuck WW1 happened),
The Vanquished by Robert Gerwarth (about all of the fucking mini-wars and general chaos that happened right after WW1 was supposed to have ended), and that's non-fiction.
For fiction, I'd recommed
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (MC is a kid who watched the Japanese take over China during WW2 - it's fucking brutal),
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (
Fallout, by written in the 1970s - the badguys are commies, islamists, and fucking eco-warriors), the
Takishi Kovacs Trilogy by Richard Morgan (usually called
Altered Carbon), and maybe
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (because who doesn't love the idea of running around 19th Centruy Africa, and murdering/looting the shit out of everything in sight?). Oh, and any all things by Mark Twain.
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