Supplemental challenge: Reading list

Africa
What is the What, by Dave Eggers
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, by Adam Hochschild

World War I
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

World War II
The Pacific War: 1931-1945, by Saburo Ienaga
The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang
Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, by Ronald Takaki

The Holocaust
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman
Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi
The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski

Cold War
The Cold War: A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis

Colonialism/Imperialism/Neo-colonialism
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change, by Stephen Kinzer
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins