History Books - Free
During the month of April 2025 the following books are available to family, friends and acquaintances at no cost (except for postage). Send me an email to let me know which book(s) you want and I will set them aside for you. I will update the website status to "Selected" for your selection. In the email specify ISBN or Title with the number and how you plan to get the book (in person or by mail). Obviously my original plan to include the ISBN for every book did not happen, but I will add the ISBN as time allows.
The books are from my personal library; you might be able to deduce their condition from the images below. Some books were gifts, some were purchased for study or enjoyment. You can arrange a visit to look them over (with some coffee or tea) if that will help you to decide. After you receive the book(s) I will update the website status to "Taken" for your selection.
The Books
Free History Books
| # | [ISBN] Title and Author | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ISBN Caesar's Invasion of Britain - Peter Berresford Ellis | History | Available |
| 2 | [0-316-48506-3] Ireland - Robert Kee | History | Selected |
| 3 | ISBN William Wallace - Brave Heart - James Mackay | History | Available |
| 4 | [0-13-055855-9] Baedeker's Great Britain | Travel Guide | Taken |
| 5 | ISBN Scotland: A Concise History by Fitzroy Maclean | History | Available |
| 6 | ISBN The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoggrey Ashe | History | Available |
| 7 | ISBN This Realm of England, 2nd ed. - Lacey Baldwin Smith | History | Available |
| 8 | ISBN England: History - J.A. Rickard | History | Available |
| 9 | ISBN A History of the Scottish People 1560-1860 - T.C. Smout | History | Available |
| 10 | ISBN A History of the Scottish People 1830-1950 - T.C. Smout | History | Available |
| 11 | ISBN 1066 and All That - Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman | History | Available |
| 12 | ISBN British Politics in the Collectivist Age - Samuel H. Beer | History | Available |
| 13 | ISBN The New World - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 14 | ISBN Historical Atlas of Britain - Malcolm Falkus and John Gillingham | History | Available |
| 15 | ISBN Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting - Carl NordenFalk | History | Available |
Free History Books
| # | [ISBN] Title and Author | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | ISBN Picture History of Jewish Civilization - Narkiss | History | Available |
| 17 | ISBN Catherine the Great - John T. Alexander | History | Available |
| 18 | ISBN Them - Jon Ronson | History | Available |
| 19 | ISBN Written into History - edited by Anthony Lewis | History | Available |
| 20 | ISBN Thinking in Time - Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May | History | Available |
| 21 | ISBN Population, Evolution, and Birth Control - GarrettHardin | History | Available |
| 22 | ISBN Since 1900 - Oscar Theodore Barck, Jr. and Nelson ManfredBlake | History | Available |
| 23 | ISBN History of the Jews by Abram Leon Sachar | History | Available |
| 24 | ISBN Connections - James Burke | History | Available |
| 25 | ISBN The Timetables of History - Bernard Grun | History | Taken |
Free History Books
| # | [ISBN] Title and Author | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | ISBN A Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi | History | Available |
| 27 | ISBN The Imperial Japanese Navy - Paul S. Dull | History | Available |
| 28 | ISBN Historians' Fallacies - David H. Fischer | History | Available |
| 29 | ISBN Europe, 1815-1914 - Gordon A. Craig | History | Available |
| 30 | ISBN The Structures of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 - Fernand Braudel | History | Available |
| 31 | ISBN The World of the Shining Prince - Court Life in Ancient Japan - Ivan Morris | History | Available |
| 32 | ISBN The Rise of the West - William H. McNeill | History | Available |
| 33 | ISBN Ten Days That Shook the World - John Reed | History | Available |
| 34 | ISBN The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler | History | Available |
| 35 | ISBN Civilization on Trial and The World and the West - Arnold Toynbee | History | Available |
| 36 | ISBN The Western World and Japan - G.B. Sansom | History | Available |
| 37 | ISBN The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas - edited by H.C. Darby & Harold Fullard | History | Available |
| 38 | ISBN The Ascent of Man - J. Bronowski | History | Available |
Free History Books
| # | [ISBN] Title and Author | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | ISBN At Dawn We Slept - Gordon W. Prange | History | Available |
| 40 | ISBN Hitler, A Study in Tyranny - Alan Bullock | History | Available |
| 41 | ISBN The Mind of Adolf Hitler - Walter C. Langer | History | Available |
| 42 | ISBN Hitler's Secret Service - Walter Schellenberg | History | Available |
| 43 | ISBN Mao Tse Tung - An anthology of his writings | History | Available |
| 44 | ISBN The Cultural Ecology of Chinese Civilization - Leon E. Stover | History | Available |
| 45 | ISBN Hitler's Social Revolution - Schoenbaum | History | Available |
| 46 | ISBN A Holocaust Reader - Lucy S. Dawidowicz | History | Available |
| 47 | ISBN History of the Second World War - Liddell Hart | History | Available |
| 48 | ISBN The Franks - EdwardJames | History | Available |
| 49 | ISBN Gold and Iron - Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire - Fritz Stern | History | Available |
| 50 | ISBN Pax Britannica - James Morris | History | Available |
Free History Books
| # | [ISBN] Title and Author | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | ISBN Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine - Signal - edited by S.L. Mayer | History | Available |
Free History Books
| # | [ISBN] Title and Author | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | ISBN The Second World War - A J P Taylor | History | Available |
| 53 | ISBN Memoirs of the Second World War - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 54 | ISBN The Second World War - Closing the Ring - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 55 | ISBN The Second World War - Triumph and Tragedy - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 56 | ISBN The Second World War - The Gathering Storm - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 57 | ISBN The Second World War - The Grand Alliance - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 58 | ISBN The Second World War - Their Finest Hour - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
| 59 | ISBN The Second World War - The Hinge of Fate - Winston S. Churchill | History | Available |
On May 1st, any remaining books will be donated to either the VA, the Portland Public Library, or Goodwill (not necessarily in that order). If you know of anyone or any organization that would like a specific book or books, please let me know [by email is best].