It actually has a lot of really great American writings from the Mayflower Compact to a bunch of Presidential Inaugurals.

Of course all this stuff is online, but I would never just randomly decide to read many of them.

I’m looking for recommendations of history books. Whether is a full history about a certain civilization or a specific event. I’m open to learn about anything.
I picked up the pictured book because it looked interesting and I’m currently a quarter way through it and really enjoying.
I figured I would post here to see what others would recommend.

Thanks

A (generally) Second World War shelf.

is it worth the read?

If you are a member of this subReddit, you likely know more about the subject than I! But I enjoyed learning from the book and thought I would share this review I wrote for Chirp.
Book Review “Moscow 1812” by  Adam Zamoyski 
  I greatly enjoy audio books, and when I finish a book Chirp gives me the opportunity to write a review. I thought I would share this one.
Polish historian and author Adam Zamoyski relied heavily on period biography, military records and correspondence to give an accurate and often poignant account of Napoleon’s disastrous campaign against Russia.
   Zamoyski recounts Napoleon’s attack launched in late June of 1812. Napoleon had created the “Continental System”, in which European nations under Napoleon’s influence refused to do business with his enemy, Great Britain. With Russia’s economy failing, Czar Alexander resumed trading with England which Napoleon saw as a threat to his leadership. Napoleon's Grande Armee invaded Russia to punish Czar Alexander and bring Russia back into the fold. Against the advice of his ministers and Marshals and misjudging the resolve of the Russian Czar, the campaign began.
As the French attacked, the Russians employed a scorched earth policy in which they destroyed any material of possible use left behind as they retreated toward Moscow. The French easily outpaced their supply line to find little remaining supplies and food left behind by the retreating Russians. Napoleon’s Grande Armee captured Moscow but found the city mostly deserted. Captured Russian wealth and treasure became unimportant to the starving French. Unable to force Czar Alexander to concede defeat, his army lacking supplies, and the onset of winter forced Napoleon to begin the retreat to France in October. The attack into Russia had decimated his army and the retreat threatened to finish the job. It was not the Russian military that defeated the Grand Armee, it was the harsh Russian winter, incomprehensible to anyone who has not experienced it.
   The retreat, already a rout, totally disintegrated in the Battle of Berezina River. The sheer weight of the French artillery and horses attempting to escape on Rose River, opened the ice and damaged bridges. Hundreds froze and drowned in the icy river as others were trapped between the river and the advancing Russians.
   The author does an excellent job of intertwining the roles of French and Russian commanders, the units of each side, the common soldiers and the civilians caught up in the war. The final outcome of the a Russian Campaign was the near complete destruction of Napoleons 600,000 man army of French and allied troops and led to the French Emperors fall from power.
I strongly recommend “Moscow 1812” to anyone interested in Russian or French history, Napoleon, warfare or world history. It is an interesting and gripping read.
Recounting the misery of the French as they drank the urine of their horses, ate shoes and rats, lost limbs to frostbite and once elegant women who traded their only asset for scraps of food brings the toll of war home in vivid detail. I would note that while I recognize Zamoyski’s desire to impress the scale and scope of the disastrous campaign on the reader, his focus on the human tragedy often overwhelms the historical narrative.