T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.
Edward Said on how the West invented the East to rule it.
Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.
Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.
Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.
Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex from 1942 to 1944.
Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.
Europe from 1087, with a Pope who excommunicates you and crusades to send the troublemakers on.
The 2000 original: a board-game Japan on the campaign map and thousands of ashigaru on the battlefield.
Settle the New World, build an economy and declare independence from the king you serve.
Tolstoy's epic of Russia in the Napoleonic age (1869).
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